Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South

Blocks and Strips Quilt (detail), 2003, by Irene Williams
"Discover an extraordinary collection of textile art, sculpture, and painting acquired from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. With remarkable inventiveness and skill, generations of quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have created arresting compositions of color and form, made from worn-out clothes and other repurposed fabrics. Exhibited with them are provocative mixed-media paintings and found-object sculptures by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and others whose subjects and materials echo with the painful history of the American South and the conditions of life for many who live there. ..."
Philadelphia Museum of Art
On View: ‘Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Installation view of “Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South” at Philadelphia Museum of Art