My maternal grandmother's last words to my momma and uncle, her two youngest, were, "I'm getting out of this hospital tomorrow and I'm gone take y'all down to the fair grounds." My momma was 13. My uncle was 11. And my grandma wouldn't live to fulfill those wishes. At the age of 47, on a […]
Quincy Howard
Quincy Howard is a visual ethnographer from Columbus Georgia whose artistry is devoted to the continuity of memory in the Black American South. Grounded in the belief that we deepen our relationship with ourselves by understanding who we are and where we come from, Quincy's work draws vividly from Black landscape, spirituality, folklore, cartography, and oral histories.
A descendant of agricultural alchemists from Southwest Georgia and the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Howard approaches image making as an act of remembrance — paying homage to his ancestry by engaging the use of sound, moving/still images, place based ecologies, archival material, and his own lived experiences. By conjuring memories of both the past and imagined futures, Quincy's work seeks to recover, extend, and actualize the survival of Black existence in the South.