Ahavas Chesed, Emily Williams
January 8 - March 1, 2025
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
Infinite Poem: Jewish Placemaking in the Deep South Photographs by Emily Williams
Infinite Poem, titled after the work of Yehuda Amichai, is an exploration of identity and place - both literal and metaphorical - in small Jewish communities in the Deep South. Faced simultaneously with antisemitism and both pressure and opportunity to assimilate into whiteness, this work seeks to understand how Jewish communities have preserved traditions while forging their own unique identity in places that are often perceived as the very edges of the diaspora.
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
October 19, 2024 - February 2, 2025 - Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
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
Rian and Friends by Peyton Fulford
Store Front, Mobile, Alabama, 1956, by Gordon Parks
September 15, 2023 - January 26, 2025
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
April 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024
Knowing Who we Are: The Rise of Abstraction, Vernacular Art and Photography
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
October 10 - December 28, 2024
Have You Seen? Emerging Artists from The Do Good Fund
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
August 10 - September 28, 2024
My Southside: Photographs by Kenny Gray
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
April 27 - August 3, 2024
Summertime: Summer Scenes from the Do Good Fund & Perdido work by Richard McCabe
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
April 1, 2023 – October 31, 2024
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
March 2 –April 13, 2024
Pardon Me, just looking—Photographs by Peggy Nolan
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
January 12 - February 16, 2024
Energetic Line & Color
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery, Columbus, GA
November 2 - December, 2023
Paul Kwilecki: Decatur County
Ten Nineteen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
October 18 - December 18, 2023
Beyond the Bounds: Photographs by Holly Lynton
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
September 21 - October 29, 2023
Facing Y’all: Inclusion Through the Lens
Spruill Center of the Arts
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
April 13 - April 29, 2023
Paul Kwilecki Photographer
Firehouse Art Center, Bainbridge, GA
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
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
October 8, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Reckonings and Reconstructions
The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Aug 27 - Oct 14, 2022
UNCANNY
Columbus State University, Illges Gallery
Aug 13 - Sept 24, 2022
Cherish What Remains
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
July 22 - Aug 22, 2022
LAND LINES
Columbus State University, Illges Gallery
June 25 - Aug 5, 2022
A Better Life For Their Children
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
April 30 - June 18, 2022
Jared Ragland: what has been will be again
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Mar 12 - April 23, 2022
No Shade in the Shadow
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Jan 14 - Mar 26, 2022
Tender is Our Skin
Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Mobile, AL
Oct 2 - Nov 13, 2021
LAND STAR: Photographs by Richard McCabe
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Sept 4 - Nov 13, 2021
Close to Home: Photographs by Paul Kwilecki and Jimmy Nicholson
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, GA
Aug 20 - Dec 20, 2021
Looking Male
The Bo Bartlett Center
Columbus, GA
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
Sep 18, 2020 — Apr 18, 2021
Youthful Adventures: Growing Up in Photography
Telfair Museums, Jepson Center
Savannah, GA
Feb 5 — Apr 3, 2021
Looking Male
LaGrange Art Museum
LaGrange, GA
Mar 21, 2020 — Jan 10, 2021
And So She Did: Women of the Chattahoochee Valley
The Columbus Museum
Columbus, GA
Aug 25— Nov 15, 2020
Documenting the South
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Jan 18 — Oct 11, 2020
Documenting the Rural South
The Columbus Museum
Columbus, GA
Mar 13 — Jun 27, 2020
The Drowned
Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Mobile, Alabama
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
Jan 7 — Apr 11, 2020
Small Talks
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
and Illges Gallery, Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia
Mar 10 — Apr 7, 2020
Carolyn Drake: Knit Club
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
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
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
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
Sep 26 — Oct 24 , 2019
Southern Selves: Portraiture and Identity in the South
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Sep 17 — Oct 3, 2019
Appalachian Views: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus
Sept 20 — Oct 11, 2019
Visions of Georgia: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
University of North Georgia, Oconee Campus
Apr 12, 2019 — Jun 6, 2019
Landscapes: Selections from The Do Good Fund Collection
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Mar 7, 2019 — Mar 31, 2019
Picture Your Story: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
Central ArtSanctuary
Mobile, Alabama
Feb 22, 2019 — Apr 11, 2019
Kristine Potter: Manifest
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Jan 19, 2019 — Apr 28, 2019
RaMell Ross: Down South, AL
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Auburn, Alabama
Dec 14, 2018 — Feb 20, 2019
The Food Show
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Nov 1, 2018 — Dec 10, 2018
Georgia Rhodes: Athens Work
The Do Good Fund Salon and Gallery
Columbus, Georgia
Oct 10, 2018 — Mar 10, 2019
New Southern Photography
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisiana
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
Sep 29, 2018 — Jan 6, 2019
Views of the South: Photographs from The Do Good Fund
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery, Alabama
Sep 21, 2018 — Nov 18, 2018
Mark Steinmetz: Looking South, Photographs from The Do Good Fund
KONTEK
Durham, North Carolina
May 9, 2018 — Nov 9, 2018
Alabama Art: Inside Out
Troy University's International Arts Center
Troy, Alabama
Apr 6, 2018 — Apr 27, 2018
Portraits from The Do Good Fund Collection
Columbus State University's Rankin Arts Photography Center, Columbus, Georgia
Mar 22, 2018 — Jun 10, 2018
One Place Understood: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisianna
Mar 2, 2018 — Mar 17, 2018
Taking a Second Look: Following the Path of William Christenberry & Beyond
Greensboro Opera House
Greensboro, North Carolina
Mar 1, 2018 — Apr 8, 2018
Women: Photographs from The Do Good Fund
Riverworks Gallery
Greenville, South Carolina