Maxine Payne Caufield University of Iowa Maxine Payne Caufield’s collaged, mural-sized photographs address issues prevalent in southern culture.  She documents the lives of women in the town where she grew up and presents them in installation settings, often incorporating objects taken directly from that environment.  She hopes to raise awareness about a group of people whom she feels are unfairly dismissed in our culture and to address the racism, sexism, prejudice and religious hypocrisy that are so deeply rooted in southern tradition.  Maxine was raised in a rural town in Arkansas by her grandparents who were uneducated and poor.  Her work is highly autobiographical and explores personal experiences that represent norms in the culture she was raised in.  Women getting married before their teens and having as many as eleven children weighs heavily on her social conscious and drives her work.  She hopes to educate the public of the daily struggles involved with living in such a repressive environment and to educate her subjects through her interactions with them.