Mississippi Arts Hour | Tema Stauffer interviewed by Lauren Rhoades

  Lauren Rhoades talks with Tema Stauffer, a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of American spaces. Tema’s new series of photographs, SOUTHERN FICTION, explores the settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers, including Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright. A monograph of SOUTHERN FICTION will be […]

Tema Stauffer and Lauren Rhoades at the Eudora Welty House

Contributing writer Lauren Rhoades and I will be in conversation about Southern Fiction on the front lawn of the Eudora Welty House on Saturday, October 8 from 4-6pm. Lauren Rhoades is a writer and the director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission. Formerly, she served as director of the Eudora Welty House & Garden, a […]

Tema Stauffer and Kathryn Savage at Lemuria Books

Writer Kathryn Savage will join me at Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi on Friday, October 7 at 5pm to sign and discuss our books, Southern Fiction and Groundglass. Kathryn Savage’s writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. Recipient of the Academy […]

Infinite Weight / Present Histories at The Vault Gallery at UWG

Three prints from Southern Fiction are included in an exhibition of contemporary photographs and lens-based works at The Vault Gallery in the Wadsworth Auditorium at the University of West Georgia. Infinite Weight / Present Histories was curated by Hallie Ringle, the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art and the […]

Harper’s Magazine: Almost Home

Harper’s Magazine published a portfolio of images accompanied by an essay from Southern Fiction by contributing writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffer’s in their August issue: Almost Home

Imaginary Landscapes: Stories from the American South

Four prints from SOUTHERN FICTION are included in an exhibition from May 17 – August 27 in the Bunzl Gallery at The Bascom: A Center for Visual Arts in Highlands, NC. Guest curated by Kate Anderson, Imaginary Landscapes: Stories from the American South, features narrative works that attempt to capture the myriad stories of the […]