Cultivation
Cultivation
Jennifer Drinkwater, Cultivation, acrylic and tempera on wood panel, 20” x 30”, 2022.
Cultivation arrives wired and ready to hang. My genius husband Aaron Swanson carefully crafts each panel with high-quality wood, mounting a smooth plywood surface onto a sturdy, mitred wooden frame that provides depth and support to the painting. The sides of the panel are sanded and finished for smoothness.
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Twenty percent of profits support the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, an organization that exists “to tell the story of Emmett Till in a way that moves people forward. We use art and storytelling to help process past pains and imagine new possibilities for the future.” Learn more at https://www.emmett-till.org/.
The community story that inspired Cultivation….
In late 2019, I interviewed Benjamin Saulsberry, the Public Engagement and Museum Education Director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC), and this conversation, and the work of the Center, inspired this series of paintings for The What’s Good Project.
In 2016, Tallahatchie County native Vanessa Pimpton became owner and executive chef of the Sumner Grille (105 S. Court Street), making it one of the first African American woman-owned businesses on the Sumner square. In 2020, Pimpton partnered with the Emmett Till Memorial Commission to provide free meals to west Tallahatchie County families and elderly community members during the COVID pandemic. Together, they raised over $20,000 to provide 250 meals, 5 days a week, for 2 weeks in May of 2020.