From Deep Roots to New Ground: The Gullah Landscapes of Jonathan Green

This booklet was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina. South Carolina art Jonathan Green seeks to recall in his painting the feeling, texture, and color of a way of life that is rapidly vanishing from the coast of South Carolina. The center of Gullah culture, this region is often called the Lowcountry or the Sea Islands, and is made up of flatlands, marshes, inlets, rivers, and islands. Until many of the island were joined to the mainland by causeways and bridges in the latter part of the twentieth century, their geographical isolation sustained a complex and distinctive culture derived from West African and Caribbean traditions.