Josiah Golson
Selected Awards & Residencies
2022 Appalachian Futures Artist Grant, Waymakers Collective, Knoxville, TN
2021 Sipp Culture Artist Relief Fund Award, Mississippi Center for Cultural Production
2020 Fund for Black Artist Organizations, Common Field, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Creative Strategist, City of Chattanooga, TN
2019 Socrates Program Artist in Residence, Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.
2019 Visiting/Teaching Artist, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2019 The Peñasco Theatre Residency, Peñasco, NM
2018 Our Town Grant, National Endowment for the Arts with Trust for Public Land, TN Office
2017 Footprint Foundation Award, Chattanooga, TN
2017 Sankofa Fund for Civic Engagement, Chattanooga, TN
2017 Obama Summit Scholarship, Chicago, IL
2017 Artist in Residence, Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Art of Disruption Preview at Art Prize, DisArt, Grand Rapids, MI
2021 Opening Act, Cooper’s Alley, Chattanooga, TN
2019 Dark Dreamt Days…, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 FESTIVAL, Carlos Gallery, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2022 FESTIVAL, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2018 The Souls of Free Folk, The Arts Building, Chattanooga, TN
Curatorial
2023 And I Shall Still Be Lonely, Tennessee Triennial, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2021 Endless Reach, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2017 Cranes, Crowns, and Scales, TILA Studios, East Point/Atlanta, GA
Publication (Author)
The Souls of Free Folk (Polyphemus, Chattanooga, TN, 2018).
Selected Projects/Performances/Workshops
2019 The Souls of Free Folk: Reading, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Color Your City - Participatory Project, The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2018 The Souls of Free Folk: Reading and Workshop, Law Warschaw Gallery, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center and Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
2018 Big 9 Records: A Community Pop-Up Record Collection and Archival Project, in collaboration with Rondell Crier and Jazzanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Creative Workshop on Race, Equity, and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
2018 Sketches of Justice, Youth arts and design workshop series on the American justice system, Chattanooga, TN
2017 Cranes, Crowns, & Scales, Exhibit, workbook, and community workshop series inspired by the music of A Seat at the Table by Solange Knowles, with TILA Studios in East Point/Atlanta, GA
2017 Color Your City, Data-driven community mural, Chattanooga Mini Maker Faire, Chattanooga, TN
2017 The Art of Free Space, Community art workshop, Fuse Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2016 To Thine Be True, Student-driven mural and workshop series, The Howard School, Chattanooga, TN
2016 Museum of Tomorrow - Exhibit for State Farm Neighborhood Sessions featuring Usher Raymond, Artist and Mentor, Chattanooga, TN
Teaching
2020 - Present: Adjunct Professor, Honors College, University of TN-Chattanooga
2017 Adjunct Professor, Drawing, University of TN-Chattanooga
Education
2011 J.D., University of Texas School of Law
2008 B.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga