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Memory painter Bernice Sims was born in southern Alabama in 1926, the oldest of 10 children. After leaving school in the tenth grade to get married and have six children of her own, Bernice eventually trained to become a nurse's aide until 1975 when she retired. At the age of 52, Bernice returned to school to secure her high school equivalency and enrolled into an art class at a local junior college. Soon she was painting to document her experiences, which ranged from warm childhood days to her participation in the civil rights struggle in the turbulent South during the 1960s. Bernice's autobiographical paintings are both sweet and serious, mixing her life's experiences with bright colors on canvas.
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