Cultivation
I made a short video about the early stages of Cultivation, a painting that’s based on a conversation I had in 2019 with Benjamin Saulsberry, Public Engagement and Museum Education Director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi.
You might be interested to learn a few updates about the Emmett Till Interpretive Center since 2019:
The National Park Service has designated National Monument designaton to the Tallahatchie County Courthouse and to Graball Landing, where Emmett’s body was discovered, along with the Roberts Temple Church in Chicago.
Shonda Rimes has joined ETIC’s effort by purchasing the barn where Emmett Till was murdered, after she read an article about the barn in The Atlantic by Mississippian Wright Thompson.
You can imagine the text as my thought bubbles, because this is really how I think while I paint. You’ll also get insight into the community story that inspired Cultivation.
Thanks for watching.
And be sure to check out the several other paintings inspired by my conversation with Benjamin.
P.S. Enjoy poring over the creative process? Check out how many of my other paintings come to life.