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Blizzards be damned.  Nothing warms the soul like Southern food.  Cornbread and peas, greens, fried chicken, and sweet potatoes will cure any ailment and drive the cold from your bones.  The Southern Foodways Alliance, a wonderful organization, has produced numerous short documentaries on Southern foodways and folk culture.  “Buttermilk Can Help” are must-sees, but [...]

One of our very own, Jane Allen Nodine, presents a new exhibit of her encaustic art  at the Myst Contemporary Gallery in Spartanburg, SC.  The exhibit opens today (1.21) and runs through February 16.  If you’re in the area, show some support!

The Appalachian Photographers Project features 18 photographers from the Southern Appalachian states.  Their work [...]

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added three exceptional artists to our site tonight. Jane Allen Nodine, Elin O’Hara Slavick, and Christopher McNulty join our stable of Southern artists, and we couldn’t be happier.

Jane Allen Nodine, Professor of Art and Director of the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina [...]

“Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: The Nature of Being Southern” opened this week at the Troy Pike Cultural Arts Complex. Forty-one artists who live and work in Alabama are exhibiting their work, all of whom have received Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Notable artists include Caroline Davis, whose background in [...]

It is my pleasure to introduce the Art section of Yellowhammer Press, offering the first online space for contemporary and emerging Southern art (or at least the first one that takes a few steps away from ceramic roosters). We look forward to exploring issues of Southern identity and its impact on artists and their work [...]

Many a Southern school child grew up reading Kathryn Tucker Windham’s 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Though she may be well known for this charming staple of Southern folklore, her life and literary range reach far beyond one seminal work.  A journalist, folklorist, and utterly enthralling storyteller with a seemingly endless store of knowledge of [...]