Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South

Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American SouthFor generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, and recycled and cast off objects that articulate Americas painful pastthe inhuman practice of enslavement, the cruel segregationist policies of the Jim Crow era, and institutionalized racism. Their works respond to issues ranging from economic

Purvis Young

zine-maker

Yoshitomo Nara graduated with a master’s degree from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music and later studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

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Following her punk period

Acaye Kerunen’s process as a socially engaged artist foregrounds the work of local and regional Ugandan craftswomen

Andrew Norman Wilson

published in English for the first time

we are arguably again in a period of immense existential questioning and profound collective anxiety—artists now

and written contributions from Joe Fyfe

and a new collection of poems by Tisa Bryant

and more—inspired by Mohamed Bourouissa's first US project