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| Title: | Southern Rites | | Date: | 4/1/2022 - 7/4/2022 | | Address: | Asheville Art Museum, 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801 | | Location: | Asheville, NC | | Hours: | Wednesday - Monday 11am–6pm, Thursday 11am–9pm | | Cost/Cover: | free - $15 | | Web Page: | https://www.ashevilleart.org/exhibitions/southern-rites/ | | Contact Info: | 828.253.3227 |
| Details: | American photographer Gillian Laub (born New York, 1975) has spent the last two decades investigating political conflicts, exploring family relationships, and challenging assumptions about cultural identity. In Southern Rites, Laub engages her skills as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist to examine the realities of racism and raise questions that are simultaneously painful and essential to understanding the American consciousness. In 2002, Laub was sent on a magazine assignment to Mount Vernon, GA, to document the lives of teenagers in the American South. The town, nestled among fields of Vidalia onions, symbolized the archetype of pastoral, small town American life. The Montgomery County residents Laub encountered were warm, polite, protective of their neighbors, and proud of their history. Yet Laub learned that the joyful adolescent rites of passage celebrated in this rural countryside—high school homecomings and proms—were still racially segregated.
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| Event is: | Every Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | | Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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