![]() The course explored the interrelationships between history, material and visual culture, architecture, foodways, music, and literature in the formation of regional Southern identities. In the summer of 2017, I developed a special topics course on the visual arts of the American South-architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture-from the colonial settlement to contemporary time. 1 In order to teach my regional student body (90 percent from Alabama 57 percent non-white) 2 and promote histories to which students feel connected, I have become invested in uncovering the art and architecture in my own backyard. Like many, my training in American art was a study of urban, mostly Northern centers at the very least, it never explicitly attended to the arts of the American South as a distinctive regional tradition. Since moving to central Alabama in 2015, my knowledge of the field of American art has been fundamentally challenged and reshaped to become more inclusive and more geographically expansive. Rachel Kirby, “ Unenslaved through Art: Rice Culture Paintings by Jonathan Green” Peter Hah-Chih Wang, “ Roaming in the South: Devin Lunsford’s Photographs from the Roadside”Īleesa Alexander, “ Magic City Modern: A Short History of the Birmingham-Bessemer School” Melissa Mednicov, “ Questions of Texas: Avant-Garde and Outlier” Johnna Henry, “ The 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders’ Mugshots: A Visual Intervention” Wendy Castenell, “ The Architects of Reconstruction: Alcès Family Portraits as Emblems of Afro-Creole Leadership”Įlyse Gerstenecker, “ Women’s Work: A Confluence of Education, Design, and Craft”Īli Printz, “ The Modernist Appalachian Aesthetic: The Art of Patty Willis” Sarah Beetham, “ Confederate Monuments: Southern Heritage or Southern Art?” ![]() Rachel Stephens, “ ‘Whatever is un-Virginian is Wrong!’: The Loyal Slave Trope in Civil War Richmond and the Origins of the Lost Cause”
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