The Traveling Show

The Traveling Show is a long-term project traveling extensively to engage rural South communities and research secular and aspects of life there. The project is a way to create an invitation through welcoming gestures that then encourages people to imagine more good could happen, while examining real and tough issues.

delicate sanctuary, rural embrace is dedicated to the common ground and sensory experiences of Coffee County to communicate histories and culture. Named for a conversation between social critic bell hooks and agrarian writer Wendell Berry about intersectional rural experiences, the work explores themes of intimacy, and of the beauty of intimacy with the natural world that the rural people of Coffee County have lived, through their relationship to the land, to community, to place.

glo presents new and reactivated forms and structures of socially engaged art that have emerged from shifting the ideology of art from visually based to how people come together on a path toward self – determination, self – knowledge, and sacralized space. Art sites include resource centers, green spaces, and centers. These ideas pay tribute to the past as a resource that can serve as a foundation for us to re envision our commitment to making a world where all people live fully.

The project will engage a majority working-class neighborhood across ten blocks — as an arts district created in conjunction with local and state-wide collaborators and supporters. delicate sanctuary, rural embrace opens in stages, beginning September 8 at the Gladys Coley Resource Center in Douglas with People Movement Shops at 2 PM.  Taste of Justice popsicles will be served. Parlor: Conversations on Somatic Practices follows beginning at 4 PM.