Arts & Soul Archives – Scalawag

Stitching the Soil: The Freedom Quilting Bee and Black Land Sovereignty

by Steven Onofua April 29, 2026April 29, 2026

Freedom is dirt. Freedom is a foundation. Freedom is a sewing machine that purrs in a building you own, on land no one can take away from you.

The Louisville Art Workshop

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Southern Cultures: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 30, 2025December 29, 2025

MEDIA, CULTURE, & MEANING

Haints and Sinners: A Southern Gothic and Hoodoo Media List

by Sherronda J. Brown October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

D'Angelo

A New Theory of Nowhere: Remembering D'Angelo

by Justin A. Davis October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Saul Williams

In The Open Air: Saul Williams on Breathing, Reading, and Resisting

by Aurielle Marie September 3, 2024September 3, 2024

Photographer Justin Hardiman, a collaborator with Jasmine Williams and Sarah Jené’s 'How We Get Over: We Grow On' project at the Mississippi Museum of Art, shares stunning portraits and excerpts from his audio-visual project, 'The Color of Grief.'

The Color of Grief

by Justin Hardiman September 22, 2023September 25, 2023

Despair, Hope, Emancipation: A Story from Parchman State Penitentiary

by A Mississippi Collective August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

In paintings: Life, Death, Carcerality, and the Pursuit of Abolition

by Obie Weathers August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

A Grief of Our Own

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 4, 2023September 29, 2023

Schistostega pennata: grief & the luminous land

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 1, 2023August 4, 2023

Rapper Alim Braxton, aka Rrome Alone, released his music video 'Prisoner of War' from Death Row.

Prisoner of War

by Alim Braxton June 22, 2023September 27, 2023

An artist's tribute to painter Duniyana Al-Amoor, killed in her room in Gaza at age 22.

Art Under Aggression

by Malak Mattar June 22, 2023November 14, 2023

Palestinian prison arts and crafts reflect the realities of life and love under Israeli occupation

Diaries of Blood: The secret artists within Israeli detention facilities

by Eman Al-Astal June 22, 2023November 14, 2023

'We apologize for the inconvenience': The unsightliness of labor at the Blanton's 'Day Jobs'

by Julie Poole May 11, 2023May 16, 2023

In the soil, in the sound: Houston's Jamal Cyrus gets to the root of Southern Black aesthetics

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 17, 2022December 1, 2023

'The imaginary line in the sand': Texas artist's installation challenges U.S.-Mexico border

by mónica teresa ortiz August 30, 2022December 4, 2023

Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney

by Tyra A. Seals June 29, 2022December 5, 2023

8 Dallas artists and a Japanese printer

by Alex Temblador December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

The story of '2 Quarter George,' New Orleans draughtsman

by Frances Madeson September 23, 2020November 14, 2023

Carrie Mae Weems and arts institutions step in where Southern governments fall short on COVID-19

by Alex Temblador September 14, 2020November 21, 2023

In conversation with People4USPS, crafting a creative blueprint for solidarity through the mail

by Zaina Alsous September 11, 2020November 21, 2023

Jesus walks into a drag bar: Birmingham's alternative drag scene

by Haley Bosselman September 4, 2020November 21, 2023

"No Place Like Home" Notes from opening night at The Miami Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival

by Zaina Alsous February 26, 2020December 3, 2020

Curated Tolerance: the aesthetics of gentrification

by Amber Delgado February 21, 2020November 14, 2023

The Proof is in the West End: Dance and wellness converge at The Movement Lab

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 3, 2020September 27, 2023

Slave rebellion replaces Confederate reenactments. Watch now.

by Tricia Towey January 29, 2020October 1, 2020

South of Rider-Waite: Four Southern Tarot Decks that Tackle Representation in Imagery, Theme, and Language

by Christie Matherne December 23, 2019April 24, 2022

Finding the thread: The tradition of African-American quilting

by Ellison Langford December 16, 2019September 16, 2020

The Picture Man in Cabbagetown

by Alexandra Marvar September 5, 2019September 16, 2020

To Be Somebody: The Radical Southern Labor Film Tradition

by Madeleine Seidel August 5, 2019September 16, 2020

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