TOC for Southern Cultures Summer 2020 “Art & Vision” Issue

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TOC for Southern Cultures Summer 2020 “Art & Vision” Issue

Below, please see the Table of Contents for Southern Cultures’s Summer 2020 issue, themed “Art & Vision.” “Our changed world provides a new momentum for this issue: creativity as a saving force, that energy from which innovative ideas are born, that spirit that makes it possible to thrive in our present circumstances and bring a new future into being,” writes guest editor Teka Selman. “Art, southern or otherwise, is a pathway to connection within ourselves and with others. In this new reality, art is as essential for survival as it ever was.”

https://www.southerncultures.org/issues/art-vision-vol-26-no-2/

 

Front porch

by Marcie Cohen Ferris

“My family reaches out of these photographs, pushing through time to remind me of the challenges they faced—of flood, pandemic, racial violence, and debt—the same challenges we face today.”

seeing in the dark

by Teka Selman

“Vision requires relinquishing control enough to find meaning in chaos, allowing what dreams may come and believing in them.”

ROOTED

by Michelle Lanier, Allison Janae Hamilton

“Where are the elevation maps of our mothers’ dreams?”

ROAD THROUGH MIDNIGHT

by Jessica Ingram

“In a purposeful inversion of the news headlines from the time, my work foregrounds individuals who fought for civil rights and who were victims of retaliatory violence.”

A SOUTH IN EVERY NORTH

by Diego Camposeco, Jeff Whetstone

“The quinceañera is smiling, framed in the center, a standard sort of portrait for the occasion, but she is pointedly out-of-context.”

RETURN TO SENDER

by Tommy Kha, Courtney Yoshimura

“What does it mean to be (categorically) ‘undesirable’?”

PASSPORT

by Susan Harbage Page, Deborah Willis

“By gilding her passport, Page renders its emblematic privileges into an explicit ‘golden ticket.’”

CANCER ALLEY

by Monique Michelle Verdin

“We ride the waves of supply and demand on the banks of the Mississippi, furs and cypress, cotton and cane, oil and gas, corn and grain, coal and aluminum, commodities bought and sold, always en route, pushed up and down river.”

THE ONCE AND FUTURE MOUNDBUILDERS

by Christina Snyder

“That these ancient mounds have stood firm despite millennia of extreme weather, erosion, and, occasionally, looters’ dynamite is a testament to the builders’ skill.”

PLANS, PROPOSITIONS, AND REALIZATIONS

by Mel Chin

“A drawing is sometimes confirmation to me that the shenanigans needed for a complex work are justified, a visual consideration of a much bigger action.”

“NOW WE CAN DEAL WITH THE NUANCES OF WHO WE ARE”

by Deborah Roberts, Amy Sherald, Teka Selman

“We’re just people, we have layered experiences. We should be able just to be, it’s not always about some performance of experience.”

“THAT WHICH WE ARE STILL LEARNING TO NAME”

by Jessica Lynne

“They have come to this afternoon prepared to immortalize an intimacy.”

I WANTED TO ASK THE TREES

by Jaki Shelton Green

“who are these new trees. look how they glisten against an unshackled firmament . . . ”

 

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