Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Watch as Jason R. Young, cocurator of "Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina", speaks with cocurator Katherine Jentleson about the exhibition at the High. Young shares his research about face vessels as well as connections between the exhibition and his book "Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery" (LSU Press). Following is a discussion of the implications of Young’s work for the exhibition and for art from the American South more broadly.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
Watch as Jason R. Young, cocurator of "Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina", speaks with cocurator Katherine Jentleson about the exhibition at the High. Young shares his research about face vessels as well as connections between the exhibition and his book "Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery" (LSU Press). Following is a discussion of the implications of Young’s work for the exhibition and for art from the American South more broadly.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
