Southern Artists

Mississippi artists hope to find a Broadway home for the traveling production

Painter Calida Rawles finds power in the pool

Ella West Gallery brings back beauty and energy to the historically rich Black Wall Street—and creates an anchor for fine art in the South

Alma Wallace Lesch’s textile artwork incorporated seed sacks, vintage clothing, and bags of chicken feed to stitch together a fascinating vision of rural life

Sydni Gause captures cosmos, hibiscus, goldenrod, and more Florida botanicals on silk

Matt Willey set out to paint fifty thousand bees—starting in the South—and learned some lessons about the good of the hive

Why everyone’s raving about the Tony-nominated musical sensation

A North Miami museum presents If You Really Knew, the South’s first comprehensive exhibition of works by the Alabama visionary

Florida birds fly to life in John Costin’s prints

Mysterious, hazy, awash with color—Parry’s latest show, Portraits of Landscape, captures the momentary magic of South Carolina waterways on film

The Ackland Art Museum’s latest show, Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South, wants to reframe the conversation about regional artists like Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Minnie Evans

An auction shares the fantastical retro artwork of Suzie Zuzek

Taking cues from her time in Charlotte, London designer Wiggy Hindmarch imbues Southern sophistication into her luxury women’s wear

A huge new coffee table book, The Outlands, dips into the photographer’s unseen archive

In Virginia, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation offers a safe haven and supportive community to teens

Native American history meets Japanese techniques in the soul-shaking work of Brenda Kingery

Historic decoys, dog paintings, a rare folk art find, and more highlights from the online Copley Winter Sale

The North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty is saying goodbye to making larger-than-life stick sculptures across the globe

Animal fur, lampshades, rubbish: They all find a home in Coulter Fussell’s ingenious quilts

The Black food experience shapes a New Orleans artist’s new ceramic collection