James Tisdale is a Ceramic Artist who uses his work to speak the words he cannot.  Tisdale grew up in the conservative south and was confronted everyday buy the injustices and  idyocracies of southern culture.  He uses common imagery, such as black face minstrels, Klu Klux Klan members side by side with black men.  Tisdale is the son of a blue collar family  that worked long hours and with that they needed a nanny. So the Tisdale kids were raised by an black woman as were many kids of the south.  He thinks the hypocrisy of the racist culture leaving there most precious of family in the hands of the “enemy” molded his views of the the world which he depicts in his art.