One obvious Gullah Geechee cultural aspect that remains evident among the African Seminoles in Red Bays is basket sewing. The art of coiling baskets made of sweetgrass began in West Africa.
The David Boles Foundation will co-host the fourth annual Geechee Gullah Festival supported by the City of Richmond Hill, on Saturday, March 22 from noon to 5 p.m. at J.F. Gregory Park. This festival ...
Every year over Memorial Day weekend, against the backdrop of the bucolic Beaufort River and under the shade of swaying ...
The Gullah Geechee have weaved baskets mainly out of sweetgrass since the 1600s, he said. But sweetgrass basket weaving has been known as "a dying art form" for some time now, Alston said ...
By Will Higginbotham and Jake Michaels The artist Roberto Benavidez is elevating ... works in the fiber-arts tradition of the Gullah Geechee of coastal South Carolina. The Harlem home of the ...
Lowcountry Hall of Famers The Plantation Singers put on a show Friday, Feb. 28, for the Rollings Middle School of the Arts ...
It could bring $34 billion in traveler spending to the Gullah Geechee Corridor, according to the market report. Some locals have developed tour operator businesses, art galleries and restaurants ...
"The extraordinary thing about the Gullah Geechee household is that that ... "I knew I was an artist, but I also knew I was a culinary expressionist — a culinary artist — because my two ...
The Gullah Geechee culture is one area that has interested me since I first learned about it while living on Hilton Head Island. That was more than 25 years ago. I recall seeing the hand-woven ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Whether you’re a “comeya” or a “beenya,” if you were a kid in the 90s, you probably know a thing or two about Gullah Geechee culture – and it is likely ...
In Pyatt’s make-believe world, Gullah dialogue conveys the real-life communal and spiritual nature of the language’s namesake culture and what it means to “stand in the gap.” This story ...