Perrine, Florida, 1981 #1, Sage Sohier

March 5 - April 13

Illges Gallery, Columbus, GA

The Divine of the Misplaced and Removed - Curated by Theo Williams

The Divine of the Misplaced and Removed gives viewers a glimpse into moments that formed the mythos of the Americas. The mythos that has developed from each group that has lived on this land and grown with the nation. Minority Americans have developed a culture different from where they come from, and still different from the culture of mainstream America. Each piece in this show is a part of a narrative that hasn’t been told in this context or in this type of environment but is usually seen in nostalgic community centers or family homes. Intimacy and perseverance are overarching themes of this show and what viewers are hopefully left with leaving. 

 

Gert Phone Cord, by Peggy Nolan

 
 

Store Front, Mobile, Alabama, 1956, by Gordon Parks

March 2 –April 13, 2024

The Do Good Fund Gallery, Columbus, GA

Pardon Me, just looking—Photographs by Peggy Nolan

Peggy Nolan started photographing in the early 1980’s while living in Florida and raising seven children in a subsidized housing complex. She documented the daily, often chaotic scenes taking place in her home and in her children’s favorite hangouts. With minimal time or resources Nolan eked out a way to follow her passion and confesses unapologetically that she often stole film to do so. In the late 1990’s she went back to school at Florida International University (FIU) to study photography. This allowed her access to the university’s darkroom and resulted in a 25 year relationship with FIU after earning her MFA in 2001.

Considered a late-bloomer, Nolan is now receiving critical acclaim for her prolific body of work and the distinctive intimacy of her images. Her new book, Juggling is Easy, was published in 2023. This exhibition is curated by Columbus State University professor and photographer Rylan Steele: “The photographs included in this exhibition are of her family, but about all of our families, all of our childhoods, and all of our parents.”

Join us for a Do Good Salon with Peggy Nolan and Rylan Steele on March 28 at 6:00 PM

 

April 27 - August 3, 2024

The Do Good Fund Gallery, Columbus, GA

Summertime & Perdido: Two Do Good Fund Exhibitions

April 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

Knowing Who we Are: The Rise of Abstraction, Vernacular Art and Photography

The art of the American South has never existed in isolation. It has – since the earliest moments of the American experience – run concurrent with dominant academic art movements and popular trends, while maintaining a distinct regional identity. On the 4th floor of Ogden Museum’s Goldring Hall, Knowing Who We Are will explore the rise of Abstraction, Photography and Vernacular Art.

While Modernism and Abstract Expressionism developed in the first half of the twentieth century, many artists working in the American South incorporated these new ideas into their practice after World War II. This section of the exhibition traces the development of abstraction in Southern Art through examples by leading figures including Fritz Bultman, Dusti Bongé, Sam Gilliam, Ida Kohlmeyer, Robert Reed, Eugene Martin, Minnie Evans, John T. Scott, Kendall Shaw and Dorothy Hood, among others.

As photography developed in the 20th century, Southern artists were deeply involved in bringing lens-based studio practices from the realm of commercial portraiture and journalism into contemporary art dialogue. Photographers include Marion Post Wolcott, Roland Freeman, Eudora Welty, William Christenberry, Kael Alford and L. Kasimu Harris, among others.

Art in the South came to the forefront of international attention, as when the art world embraced the freedom and innovation of Self-Taught and Visionary art in the late-20th century, and vernacular artists from the South arose as leading figures in that national dialogue. Works by Thornton Dial, Bessie Harvey, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Helen Burkhart Mayfield, Clementine Hunter, Roy Ferdinand, George Andrews and more are featured on this floor in conversation with abstraction and photography.

 
Rian with Friends, by Peyton Fulford

Rian and Friends by Peyton Fulford

 
 

September 15, 2023 - January 1, 2025

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia

A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845

Exhibition on Tour:

September 15, 2023 - January 14, 2024 - High Museum of Art

February 01, 2024 - July 01, 2024 - Addison Gallery of American Art

September 01, 2024 - January 01, 2025 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The South has occupied an uneasy place in the history of photography as both an example of regional exceptionalism and as the crucible from which American identity has been forged. As the first major survey of Southern photography in twenty-five years, this exhibition will examine that complicated history and reveal the South’s critical impact on the evolution of the medium, posing timely questions about American culture and character.

Featuring many works from the High’s extensive collection, A Long Arc will include photographs of the American Civil War, which transformed the practice of photography across the nation and established visual codes for articulating national identity and expressing collective trauma. Photographs from the 1930s-1950s, featuring many created for the Farm Security Administration, will demonstrate how that era defined a new kind of documentary aesthetic that dominated American photography for decades and included jarring and unsettling pictures that exposed economic and racial disparities. With works drawn from the High’s unparalleled collection of civil rights-era photography, the exhibition will show how photographs of the movement in the decade that followed galvanized the nation with raw depictions of violence and the struggle for justice. Contemporary photography featured in the exhibition will demonstrate how photographers working today continue to explore Southern history and themes to grasp American identity.

 

Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund

Exhibition on Tour:

October 8, 2022 - January 8, 2023 ~ Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA

August 11, 2023 - November 5, 2023 ~ Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

February 8, 2024 - May 18, 2024 ~ Lowe Art Musuem, Miami, FL

June 15, 2024 - September 8, 2024 ~ Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA

This exhibition asks key questions that identify and complicate conventional ideas of the “American South” and “Southern photography” by resisting retrograde tropes and instead projecting the enigmatic, ever-changing qualities of the region and its people.

The exhibition highlights a wide-ranging group of photographers from the Do Good Fund—diverse in gender, race, and ethnicity. Photographs by seventy-three artists, including Gordon Parks, Sheila Pree Bright, Mark Steinmetz, Michael Stipe, and William Christenberry showcase both established and emerging names in photography. Reckonings and Reconstructions navigates the interface between nature and culture in the South. Themes of land, labor, law and protest, food, ritual, and kinship draw from historical legacies where despair and hope, terror and beauty, pain and joy, and indignity and dignity commingle.

Exhibition catalog available for order here


PAST EXHIBITIONS


September 21 - October 29, 2023

Beyond the Bounds: Photographs by Holly Lynton

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA

 

September 21 - October 29, 2023

Facing Y’all: Inclusion Through the Lens

Spruill Center of the Arts

 

April 13 - April 29, 2023

Paul Kwilecki Photographer

Firehouse Art Center, Bainbridge, GA

November 2 - January 1, 2023

Paul Kwilecki: Decatur County

Ten Nineteen Gallery, New Orleans, LA

 

April 5 - July 29th, 2023

Breaking News: Ledger Enquirer Photographs from the Columbus Museum

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA

 

February 27–March 31, 2023

What Has Been Will Be Again

Gammill Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi

October 8, 2022 - January 8, 2023

Reckonings and Reconstructions

The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

 

August 5 - October 7, 2023

More Than A Likeness: Portraits from The Do Good Fund Collection curated by Jerry Siegel

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA

 

October 12 - January 14, 2023

A Two Fold Vision: Baldwin Lee & Mark Steinmetz

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA. Curated by Richard McCabe

February 1st - March 25th, 2023

Morbid Curiosity: Works of Butch Anthony from Drs. Joseph & Francye Largeman Collection

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA

Aug 27 - Oct 14, 2022

UNCANNY

Columbus State University, Illges Gallery

April 30 - June 18, 2022

Jared Ragland: what has been will be again

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

Jan 14 - Mar 26, 2022

Tender is Our Skin

Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Mobile, AL

July 22 - Aug 22, 2022

LAND LINES

Columbus State University, Illges Gallery

Brittainy Lauback, Gulf Shores, 2013

Aug 20 - Dec 20, 2021

Looking Male 

The Bo Bartlett Center
Columbus, GA

 

Mar 12 - April 23

No Shade in the Shadow

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

June 25 - Aug 5, 2022

A Better Life For Their Children

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

Aug 13 - Sept 24, 2022

Cherish What Remains

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

 

Oct 2 - Nov 13, 2021

LAND STAR: Photographs by Richard McCabe  

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

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Sept 4 - Nov 13, 2021

Close to Home: Photographs by Paul Kwilecki and Jimmy Nicholson 

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

RaMell Ross, iHome, 2012

Aug 20 — Sept 30, 2021

The South: Then and Now

Mississippi University for Women Art Department Galleries
Rosenzweig Arts Center
Columbus, MS

 

Spring 2021

Pictures of Us: Southern Portraits from the Permanent Collection

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA

Feb 20 — Aug 1, 2021

Of Care and Destruction: 2021 Atlanta Biennial

Atlanta Contemporary
Atlanta, GA

Mar 4 — Jun 26, 2021

WORK, WORSHIP & COMMUNITY:
Photographs by Paul Kwilecki

Albany Museum of Art
Albany, GA

 
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Sep 18, 2020 — Apr 18, 2021

Youthful Adventures: Growing Up in Photography

Telfair Museums, Jepson Center
Savannah, GA

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Feb 5 — Apr 3, 2021

Looking Male

LaGrange Art Museum
LaGrange, GA

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Mar 21, 2020 — Jan 10, 2021

And So She Did: Women of the Chattahoochee Valley

The Columbus Museum
Columbus, GA

 
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Aug 25— Nov 15, 2020

Documenting the South

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

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Jan 18 — Oct 11, 2020

Documenting the Rural South

The Columbus Museum
Columbus, GA

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Mar 13 — Jun 27, 2020

The Drowned

Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Mobile, Alabama

 
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May 1 — Jul 3, 2020

Six Feet Apart

A community collaboration, during COVID-19, showcasing ideas by CSU’s graduating BFA candidates.

Riverwalk, Columbus, Georgia

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Jan 7 — Apr 11, 2020

Small Talks

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
and Illges Gallery, Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia

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Mar 10 — Apr 7, 2020

Carolyn Drake: Knit Club

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

 
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Dec 4, 2019 — Jan 7 , 2020

Uncomfortable Truths

Organized by Columbus State University creative writing students

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

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Aug 6, 2019 — Jan 5, 2020

Auburn, AL Takeover

Southern Landscapes, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill

Southern Portraits, Auburn Public Library

Perspectives, The Department of Art and Art History’s Biggin Gallery

Southern Interiors, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art’s Corridor Gallery

Southern Architecture, The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Sunny Slope

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Oct 30, 2019 — Nov 21 , 2019

Fun & Games: Kids on the Edge

Organized by Brookstone School students

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

 
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Sep 26 — Oct 24 , 2019

Southern Selves: Portraiture and Identity in the South

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

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Sep 17 — Oct 3, 2019

Appalachian Views: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection

University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus

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Sept 20 — Oct 11, 2019

Visions of Georgia: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection

University of North Georgia, Oconee Campus

 
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Apr 12, 2019 — Jun 6, 2019

Landscapes: Selections from The Do Good Fund Collection

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

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Mar 7, 2019 — Mar 31, 2019

Picture Your Story: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection

Central ArtSanctuary
Mobile, Alabama

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Feb 22, 2019 — Apr 11, 2019

Kristine Potter: Manifest

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

 
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Jan 19, 2019 — Apr 28, 2019

RaMell Ross: Down South, AL

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Auburn, Alabama

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Dec 14, 2018 — Feb 20, 2019

The Food Show

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

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Nov 1, 2018 — Dec 10, 2018

Georgia Rhodes: Athens Work

The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia

 
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Oct 10, 2018 — Mar 10, 2019

New Southern Photography

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisiana

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Oct 1 — Oct 28, 2018

Macoa’s Views of the South: Photographs from The Do Good Fund

The Montgomery Area Council On Aging, Archibald Center, Montgomery, Alabama

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Sep 29, 2018 — Jan 6, 2019

Views of the South: Photographs from The Do Good Fund

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery, Alabama

 

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Sep 21, 2018 — Nov 18, 2018

Mark Steinmetz: Looking South, Photographs from The Do Good Fund

KONTEK
Durham, North Carolina

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May 9, 2018 — Nov 9, 2018

Alabama Art: Inside Out

Troy University's International Arts Center
Troy, Alabama

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Apr 6, 2018 — Apr 27, 2018

Portraits from The Do Good Fund Collection

Columbus State University's Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus, Georgia

 
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Mar 22, 2018 — Jun 10, 2018

One Place Understood: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisianna

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Mar 2, 2018 — Mar 17, 2018

Taking a Second Look: Following the Path of William Christenberry & Beyond

Greensboro Opera House
Greensboro, North Carolina

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Mar 1, 2018 — Apr 8, 2018

Women: Photographs from The Do Good Fund

Riverworks Gallery
Greenville, South Carolina