Souls Grown Deep is dedicated to promoting the work of Black artists from the American South and supporting their communities by fostering economic empowerment, racial and social justice, and educational advancement.
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Stories
Online Exhibit
Gee's Bend: Sears Corduroy Quilts
How an unlikely material made its way into the hands of quiltmakers in and around Gee's Bend, Alabama, and onto museum walls.
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Thornton Dial: High and Wide (Carrying the Rats to the Man)
In this piece, Thornton Dial recalls one of the most horrifying specters in American history and consciousness—the African slave ship.
Thornton Dial: Strange Fruit
Throughout his prolific career, Thornton Dial engaged with the spectacle of racial violence in America, frequently drawing on his own experience growing up in the Jim Crow South.
Nellie Mae Rowe: Picking Cotton
The richly iconographic drawings of Nellie Mae Rowe are suffused with disguised narratives and hidden meanings.
We All End Up in the Clay: The Sculpture of James 'Son Ford' Thomas
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