Project Description
The Traveling Show
social movement in rural places in the Deep South
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.
For more information, write us here: info@gloatl.org
glo launched The Traveling Show in 2013 with a SEED grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. To date, the project has engaged 61 rural southern towns, and 3 art sites, across thousands of miles, to offer free and public art to more than 67,058 southerners.
The Traveling Show: Boykin (2023) is made possible by a Grants for Arts Project Award from the NEA.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
CIVIC ACTION INITIATIVES
June 26-July 1, 2023
research | residency one
March 27-April 1, 2023
2020: Florence, AL. (postponed).
2019: May 23-26: Pasaquan, Buena Vista, GA.
March 11-16: Marion, AL
2018: Walker County, GA
Opening September 23, 2013, Dalton, GA – ongoing
Athens, Gainesville, Rabun County, Gainesville, Monroe, Kingsland, Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden + Summerville, Tunnel Hill, Meriwether County, Griffin
