BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Art Bridges Foundation (ABF) has announced an open call for venues interested in a new traveling exhibition called Crafting Sanctuaries: Black Spaces of the Great Depression South.
Crafting Sanctuaries "explores how Black Southerners transformed private dwellings and public gathering places into havens of expression and refuge during the Great Depression," ABF said.
The exhibition includes six categories of photo archives from the Farmer Security Administration.
- Constructing homes
- Moving homes
- Black domestic interiors
- Liminal spaces
- Black communal spaces
- Outsides spaces
The exhibition is open to "a wide variety of arts and cultural organizations" in the U.S., including libraries, schools and community centers.
The exhibition will be available in the Spring of 2025. Institutions will be able to borrow the exhibition for six months at a time, according to the release.
Art Bridges Foundation CEO Anne Kraybill said this opportunity "aims to remove barriers to access and ensure that diverse perspectives of the American experience are shared more widely."
Curatorial Research Assistant at ABF, Tamir Williams, adds that this exhibition " seeks to paint a much more truthful and diverse visual narrative of rural Southern America during the challenging years of the Great Depression."
To apply, click here.
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