Robert Wilson, Clementine Hunter

Visual artist and director, Robert Wilson, is directing a new chamber opera based on the life of artist, Clementine Hunter. Sheryl Sutton says "My character stands to elucidate her spiritual life. She was a painter, but she painted at night, she painted from midnight to 6 in the morning. So everyone knew her as a mother, a cook, a field hand. They knew her in all these worldly ways, but her real life was from midnight to 6 a.m., and she said she painted what God told her to."