freedom summer paintings: a mississippi season of harassment, terrorism and progress
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Guardians Against the Grain
water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015Overseeing the shift. It takes a lot of faith.
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The Search
water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015FBI team scours the bogs for bodies of James, Mickey and Andrew
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We Shall Be Released by 10:00pm
water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015Don't be out after 10pm.
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Kiss Good-bye the White Mansions
water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015KKK are threatened by interracial romances.
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Hell's Confetti
water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015Molotov cocktails blow up SNCC offices.
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What The Neighbors Saw
water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/southern-runes.jpg)
Southern Runes
water-based media on panel| 30" x 40"| 2015private collection
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Ella, Diane and Fannie Lou Watching
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/a-second-kiss-in-sight-1.jpg)
A Second Kiss Is In Sight
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Clandestiny.jpg)
Clandestiny
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/molotove-cocktail-for-tradition.jpg)
Study for Hell's Confetti
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Molotov Cocktail For Tradition
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Study-for-The-Search.jpg)
Study for The Search
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Study-for-What-the-Neighbors-Saw.jpg)
Study for What the Neighbors Saw
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Study-for-Guardians-Against-the-Grain.jpg)
Study for Guardians Against the Grain
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Not-Where-You-Want-to-Be.jpg)
Not Where You Want to Be
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/not-everything-means-progress.jpg)
Not Everything Means Progress
water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015![](https://www.cynthiaryankelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/kelly2-guardians-against-the-grain-1.jpeg)
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Carrying around the shame that I so ignorantly walked the campus where 700 plus daring students and activists learned how to survive and I never once paid them homage. Thus, this body of work. I mean, goddamn.