Searching for Home Video Exhibition Exploration

This year, more than ever, the search for home feels especially relevant. Is home now a place for business, schooling our children and family time? Is our current home ideal or just temporary? Searching for home explores the many ways people are contemplating home in 2020.

The search for home is a journey that we all find ourselves on in life. In this video tour of our fall exhibition hear four artists from the exhibition, the College’s Director of Sustainability and three Agnes Scott College professors of anthropology, sociology, and culture discuss the ideas of home.

Searching for Home

image by Dawn Williams Boyd

A PROJECT OF THE MARGARET VIRGINIA PHILIP ENDOWMENT

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We have all searched for home. Some have found it, while for others it is a lifelong quest. In this century the entire interwoven globe has reeled from constant motion to arrested stop – and soon, back again — reacting to displacement – war – pandemic – violence – poverty – danger – climate – upheaval – politics – chaos – nature’s whims – disease. As the pendulum swings, some search for an ideal PLACE; others yearn for psychic or spiritual sanctuary. The search may be a physical progress or a journey of the spirit; the seeking may be voluntary or forced; tragic or hopeful. The goal is a better life and safety for ourselves and those we love – the security of HOME. Artists are sharing the quests – giving faces to the seekers – exploring the paths – joining the search. We know when we get there.

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Featuring work by:
Dawn Williams Boyd
Beverly Buchanan
Yehimi Cambron
In Kyoung Chun
Ruth Franklin
Ruby Franklin
Ruwaida Ghanoum
Clementine Hunter
Marquetta Bell Johnson
Calvin Kimbrough
Grace Kisa
Macey Ley
The Mad Housers
Ethel Wright Mohamed
Sister Gertrude Morgan
Lynn Pollard
Jess Self
Jennifer Shaw
Bernice Sims
Daniel Troppy
Leila Ross Wilburn
Jamele Wright, Sr.

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