STATE ARTS 2021 SOUTHERN PRIZE AND STATE FELLOWS

This exhibition presents the nine 2021 fellowship recipients of the South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellows project, which launched in 2017. The artists here hail from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and have first-hand experience with issues surrounding ethnicity, identity, colonialism and gender. The 2021 Southern Prize winner, Marielle Plaisir, creates lavish artworks populated with contemporary and historical figures against lush, Caribbean-inspired backdrops. Southern Prize Finalist Fletcher Williams III addresses Southern history and culture using found and natural materials.