AUBURN, AL.- The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents a new exhibition entitled Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster on view from December 11, 2010-March 12, 2011 in the Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C. Organized by the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster provides an in-depth survey of this native Alabama artist’s career, covering the variety of themes inherent in his work, much of it relating to his visionary experiences. An evangelistic preacher in paint and self-proclaimed Man of Visions, Reverend Howard Finster became one of the most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over 46,000 works of art by his death in 2001. Finster often referred to himself as “a stranger from another world” and “God’s last red light on the planet earth.” An inventive paint