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PAGE TURNER: Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art. Publishing books that contribute to social and gender equality, diversity, and civic engagement have always been critical to the mission of LSU Press. Over the past year (April 1, 2012 to February 28, 2013), the Press has upheld this longstanding tradition by publishing an array of titles that advance these goals. One title in particular highlights the life of folk artist Clementine Hunter. Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art, highlighted that Hunter painted every day from the 1930s until her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana’s Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her—glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards—as well as on canvas. Her paintings of cotton planting and harvesting, washdays, weddings, baptisms, funerals, Saturday night revelry, and zinnias depict her experiences of everyday plantation life along the Cane River. -Learn more, www.lsupress.org