Soul Stirring: African American Self-taught Artists from the South featured artworks by eight, self-taught, African American artists from the southern United States: Leroy Almon, Sam Doyle, Roy Ferdinand, Clementine Hunter, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, Herbert Singleton, and Purvis Young. Each artist created stunning works using a variety of media, including cast-off roofing tin, recycled paper, poster board and wood. Their works brilliantly reflect the political, religious, and societal expressions mined from their varied life experiences.

The originality and intensity of their artworks vividly establishes their indelible contributions to American art and why Soul Stirring received raves—KCRW (“rare sense of truth, authenticity and poetry”), the Los Angeles Magazine (“powerful works in the wonderful Soul Stirring exhibition”), the Hollywood Reporter (“purity and magic”), Blouin ArtInfo (“energy achieved with the most literally economical of means”), the Los Angeles Times (“a welcome opportunity to see a variety of powerful work. Some are classic examples”) and Raw Vision Magazine (“a vein of pure gold”).