Our last Family Day focused on the exhibition “Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund.” The Do Good Fund was founded in 2012 in Columbus, Georgia. It focuses on collecting photographs that tell a story about the ever-changing American South. This exhibition is the first big survey of its collection. It includes photographs from the 1950s to the present. These photographs show us the many people, places and traditions that make up southern identity. The exhibition is arranged into 6 different themes: land, labor, law and protest, food, ritual and kinship.
What do you think defines the South? What do you think about the history of the South? What do you hope for its future?
Photographs capture special moments and tell stories about people and places. Now it is your turn to tell your story.
You’ll need a special photograph and the following supplies:
- cardboard
- small charms and beads
- stickers and colored paper
- glue
- scissors
- magazines
directions:
- Make a copy of your photograph if you do not want to damage it.
- Cut and glue colored paper to the cardboard to make your background.
- When the cardboard is covered with paper, glue your photograph in the middle of it.
- Choose stickers and decorations that help tell a story about the photograph. Cut out words and images from magazines if you want to.
- Arrange these things around your photograph and glue them into place.
- Talk with someone you are with about the collage and the story it tells.