"She walked the walk, but she didn't talk the talk." (Jodi Throckmorton on Joan Brown).

Jodi Throckmorton discusses the connections among Joan Brown's life, her painting, and the women's movement and the inspiration behind the exhibition This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown. Throckmorton is associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and curator of the exhibition. This Kind of Bird Flies Backward is on view at SJMA through March 11, 2012.