Curator & Artist Guided Walkthough

Saturday, August 30th, 2025

10:30 - 11:15am

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The nine artists featured in the  2025 South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts exhibition will join curator Shannon Lindsey to discuss their work. Guests will be able to hear from Loretta Pettway Bennett (Alabama), Gonzalo Fuenmayor (Florida), Masela Nkolo (Georgia), Travis Townsend (Kentucky), Edgar Cano (Louisiana), Stephen Phillips (Mississippi), Lydia Thompson (North Carolina), Felicia Greenlee (South Carolina), and Tabitha Arnold (Tennessee). This event is free and open to the public. 

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The 2025 South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts exhibition continues the rich history of the program’s celebration of diversity in media, subject matter, and conceptual investigations in Southern art. This year’s prize state fellows explore traditional materials through contemporary processes including ceramics, drawing, painting, quilting, and sculpture. They use a variety of mediums and methods to express their identities, environments, imaginations, narratives, and traditions to build their own frameworks to reflect on constructs throughout history and within the contemporary landscape. These artists actively explore a variety of concepts including: craft and process, complex histories and current issues, environments and communities, navigation of real and imagined spaces or real and imagined geographies; but all connect through a shared passion for connection, representation, and form. All of these artists’ works require an intimate experience of looking closely, visually tactile surfaces, and intentional traces of techniques and materials.