The Praise House is once agained saved through community support, like praise houses before, and moved, this time to South-Atlanta to ackowledge the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre and the Civil Rights History of the city of Atlanta.
Slated to open September 2025
The Praise House at South-View Cemetery
In its next act of remembrance, The Praise House Project traveled along the path of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre to finally rest at South-View Cemetery in South Atlanta, to acknowledge the victims who rest there along with some of the most prominent civil and human rights leaders in history.
This installation will mark the beginning of a year of remembrance leading up to the 120th anniversary of the massacre. while recalling Atlanta’s Reconstruction Era history and the city’s first burial ground for freedfolk.
2024
Remembering Beacon Hill
aka - “The Bottom”
The Praise House Project rested for one year on land that holds the earliest memories of freedom in Downtown Decatur. The Praise House in Beacon Hill honored this Freedman’s town and its present and active descendant community’s wishes for the historic preservation and repurposing of their few remaining historic sites.
The Praise House was saved, like praise houses before, and moved from Emory to a Freedman’s town!
2023
The Praise House at Emory University
By acknowledging the history of Oxford, the birthplace of Emory, and by recalling the tradition of the Ring Shout, the work invited audiences to return to places of ancestral memory and to recall the history of slavery and dispossession to consider a way forward towards truth and reconciliation
Image by William Feagins Jr.
2021
The Praise House at Oakland Cemetery
The Praise House Project was first presented by Flux Projects at Oakland Cemetery to honor the over 800 unmarked graves in the African American Burial Grounds.
Image bu William Feagins Jr.
Praise House Project Inc seeks to identify a public art commission or acquisition for its permanent installation in the city of Atlanta.
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