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August 18, 2020 – January 8, 2021
The South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships celebrate and support the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The exhibition will feature works from the 2020 State Fellowship Artists.
Click here to view The Bo Bartlett Center’s publication on South Arts 2020 Southern Prize and State Fellows.
ABOUT SOUTH ARTS
South Arts advances Southern vitality through the arts. The nonprofit regional arts organization was founded in 1975 to build on the South’s unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts’ work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. South Arts offers an annual portfolio of activities designed to support the success of artists and arts providers in the South, address the needs of Southern communities through impactful arts-based programs, and celebrate the excellence, innovation, value and power of the arts of the South. For more information, click here.
Luminous Phrase, 2016 - 2019
Alba Triana (Florida)
Visible and audible sound instillation
Delirious Fields, 2019
Abla Triana (Florida)
Suspended spheres in variable electromagnetic fields
BLSH 7, 2019
Letitia Quesenberry (Kentucky)
Panel, lacquer, plexiglass, film and paint
BLSH 10, 2019
Letitia Quesenberry (Kentucky)
Panel, lacquer, plexiglass, film and paint
as of yet, 2020
Letitia Quesenberry (Kentucky)
Panel, polished plaster, graphite, mirror, glitter, film, paint, wax, plexiglass and resin
Bill Steber (Tennessee)
(left to right) Cypress Grove, 2017, Trenton Ayers, 2017, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, 2017, Dr. Charles Smith, 2017
Ashleigh Coleman (Mississippi)
Ashleigh Coleman (Mississippi)
(left to right) Tuesday Morning, 2019, His Own Haircut, 2018, Seven Puzzle Pieces in Three Minutes, 2019, When She Kept Turning on the Stove, 2018, Not Again, 2019.
Carlton Nell (Alabama)
(top, left to right) Composition 295, 2019, Composition 301, 2020, Composition 298, 2019
(bottom, left to right) Composition 299, 2019, Composition 300, 2020, Composition 296, 2019.
Fahamu Pecou (Georgia)
(left to right) Real NEGUS Don't Die: Shining Prince (Malcom X), 2019, Real NEGUS Don't Die: Child's Play (Tamir Rice), 2019, Real NEGUS Don't Die: Let Them See ( Emmet Till), 2019.
Fahamu Pecou (Georgia)
(left to right) Mules and Men, 2020, Black Skin White Masks, 2020, Things Fall Apart, 2020.
Kristi Ryba (South Carolina)
Karen Ocker (Louisiana) and Kristi Ryba (South Carolina)
Karen Ocker (Louisiana)
(left to right) Junco Partner, 2017, Tribute to Allen Toussaint, 2017.
Karen Ocker (Louisiana)
(left to right) Respect, 2018, Up above my head, 2019, Zora Neale Hurston, 2018.
Karen Ocker (Louisiana)
(left to right) Tribute to Allen Toussaint, 2017, Tribute to Amédé Ardoin
Kristi Ryba (South Carolina)
(left to right) Tree of Consanguinity, Kinship, & Affinity, 2019, Disputation of St. Christine Blasey Ford, 2019.
Chapel of Perpetual Adoration II, 2018
Kristi Ryba (South Carolina)
Egg tempera and 22K gold leaf on panel
Kristi Ryba (South Carolina)
(left to right) Pope Sixtus IV, 2018, Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful..., 2019, Massacre of the Innocents, 2018.
Sherrill Roland (North Carolina)
Sherrill Roland (North Carolina)
Sherrill Roland (North Carolina)