Press Release
The city of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents South Arts' 2021 Southern Prize and State Fellowships Exhibition, on view July 15th – August 28th, 2022 at City Gallery.
South Arts' 2021 Southern Prize and State Fellowships Exhibition is a touring exhibition of the award and fellowship recipients. South Arts, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a nonprofit regional arts organization with a mission to empower artists, organizations and committees as well as increase access to arts and culture. Since 2017, its Southern Prize & State Fellowship Program has recognized and awarded direct financial support to some of the top contemporary artists in the region. A State Fellowship is awarded to an artist from the nine Southern states (Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina), and a second jury selects the Southern Prize finalists and winner.
This is the third year that South Arts has established a touring exhibition for the program, and the late Wim Roefs, acted as curator for this year's exhibition. A noted curator and visual arts professional in South Carolina, Roefs was co-founder and board member of 701 Center for Contemporary Art and owner of if ART Gallery, both in Columbia, South Carolina.
The 2021 South Arts State Fellowship cohort includes: Tameca Cole, Alabama; Raheleh Filsoofi, Tennessee; Joyce Garner, Kentucky; Myra Greene, Georgia; Jewel Ham, North Carolina; Ming Ying Hong, Mississippi; Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, Louisiana; Marielle Plaisir, Florida; and Fletcher Williams III, South Carolina. Marielle Plaisir was the winner of the 2021 Southern Prize. For more information on these artists, including their biographies and artist's statements, please visit https://citygalleryatwaterfrontpark.com/coming-soon/.
The 2022 cohort of State Fellows has been announced, and the Southern Prize for 2022 will be announced on September 1st, 2022 at the Bo Bartlett Center of Columbus State University. For more information on South Arts and the State Fellows program, please visit www.southarts.org.
