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TODAY at 11 AM CST: Culture in in the Carceralocen

TODAY at 11 AM CST: Culture in in the Carceralocene, a conversation between artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick and activists Flozell Daniels and Mariah Moore, facilitated by writer, cultural worker, and community historian Lydia Y. Nichols. Register at bit.ly/Culture&Justice

Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick were born and raised in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. As husband and wife team, they have been documenting Louisiana and its people for more than 25 years. In New Orleans, they have documented the music culture, which consists of Brass Bands, Jazz Funerals, Social and Pleasure Clubs, Benevolent Societies, and the Black Mardi Gras Indians. In addition to documenting New Orleans social and cultural history, Calhoun and McCormick have also covered religious and spiritual ceremonies throughout their community, as well as river baptisms in rural Louisiana. They have created several photographic series, including: Louisiana Laborers; The Dock Worker, Longshoreman, and Freight Handlers on the docks of New Orleans; Sugar Cane Field Scrappers in the river parishes along the Mississippi river; Cotton Gins, and Sweet Potato Workers in East Carrol parish of Lake Providence Louisiana.

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Key Finding #4: SOLIDARITY Entrenched structures

Key Finding #4: SOLIDARITY

Entrenched structures of oppression, combined with a chronic lack of philanthropic and public investment in local cultural organizations and artists, have led Southern artists to build alternative systems of mutual support, resource sharing, and collaboration.

How do Southern arts and cultural workers operate in the solidarity economy?

💡Exchanging goods and services

💡The work happens in a variety of places

💡Networks are key to Southern creative solidarity economy

💡Committed space for creative practice and cultural production is emerging as a key component of cooperatives

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Key Finding #3: DIVESTMENT When it comes to arts

Key Finding #3: DIVESTMENT

When it comes to arts and culture, the South is the least well-funded U.S. region. This trend leads to a formalized nonprofit infrastructure that Southerners perceive as weak and inattentive to local needs and realities of Southern artists and communities.

Compared to other U.S. regions, the South receives the smallest per capita number of private philanthropic dollars for arts and culture, and this trend has remained consistent since 2010. In 2017, the South received $4.21 per person versus a national average of $8.60.

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