Artist: Sarah Hoskins

Project: The Homeplace

Description: Sarah Hoskins’ The Homeplace is a beautifully considered study of the small African-American communities that sprang up in post-Civil War Kentucky. Some of these communities have endured, and even thrived throughout the past 150 years. Others are on the verge of disappearing.

In her statement about the project, Hoskins writes:

“Many of the residents of these hamlets learned of slavery at their grandparents' knees and endured the Jim Crow South. They lived 'separate but equal’ and saw the decades of milestones and their impacts, including desegregation, social segregation, and ultimately the election of Barack Obama. They did much more than endure and survive negative circumstances; they rose above them and thrived.”