Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
..."unritual"—with a new sense of the sacred that allows for remembrance and re-humanization. Rituals—be they initiations, funerary rites, or collective acts of remembrance—confer "humanity" on those who practice them and...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Mine disaster. His images of laid-off and out-of-work miners suggest current tensions between miners and coal company management. Kanawha River Coal Load Out Facility. Montgomery, WV, 2005. Mining and the...
The Liminal Site
...like C. florida that thrives in the partly shady wood with nice rich organic soils all moist and acidic. Once the plant leaves the nursery for that long trunk ride...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Acres and a Goat, a memoir; Providence, a history of one square mile of land in Holmes County, Mississippi; The Glad River and Cecilia's Sin, two spiritually nuanced novels; The...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Makers of the Sacred Harp stands out from other works on American folk hymnody in its attention to the hymn texts and their authors, the focus of Richard Hulan’s contributions....
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....