Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
[author_affiliation] Overview Southern Spaces: Malinda, tell us about your film Lumbeeland. Why and how did you come to work on this project? Malinda Maynor Lowery: Lumbeeland is a twenty-nine minute short narrative, live-action film set in the Lumbee Indian community of Robeson County, North Carolina. It features a young Native man who is intent on […]
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
[author_affiliation] Overview Introduction In many ways, artists are first responders—to repurpose a term often used in public health. Soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began in March 2020, artists took to their studios, desks, and Zoom to bear witness to the pandemic and the tragic experiences of morbity and mortality that upended millions of lives. Throughout […]
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
[author_affiliation] Overview Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in terms of both ecology and aesthetics. Dimmitt: My first trip there was in 1977 with a friend and my brother. The friend wanted […]
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
[author_affiliation] Overview Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-NDTo inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu. Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Similar Publications Sections
Ossabaw Island Flyover
[author_affiliation] Overview Video and Essay Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6 miles) wide. It is located between latitudes 31° 49.5′ and 31° 43.2′ N. Of the Georgia barrier islands, Ossabaw is the most geologically unusual. […]
“Within Thy Circling Pow’r I Stand”: Immersive Video from Sacred Harp’s Hollow Square
[author_affiliation] Overview Introduction Sacred Harp singing is defined by its spatial organization as much as by its musical style. In this form of shape-note music, an assembled “class” of singers gathers at annual events called “singings”—weekend days spent in churches or community centers singing songs from The Sacred Harp, a nineteenth-century Georgia tunebook revised every […]
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
[author_affiliation] Overview Video and Essay Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the small town of Middendorf, twelve miles north of Hartsville. Born to a working-class family, Gainey picked cotton at an early age with his brothers, sister, and cousins. Through relatives and neighbors, he developed an early love for […]
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
[author_affiliation] Overview Video A Reflection by Craig Womack A friend of mine tells a story about his high school days in the greater tri-city area (Wetumka, Weleetka, and Wewoka—Creek names for water that roars, runs, and barks—for those of you from parts other than rural eastern Oklahoma). One day in his Weleetka High School class, […]
Sapelo Island Flyover
[author_affiliation] Overview Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 […]
St. Catherines Island Flyover
[author_affiliation] Overview Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four thousand years ago, the undeveloped island is privately owned but protected for the public good. A small network of unpaved roads connect the […]