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Issue 5 · Winter 2025

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Jammie Holmes 

Jammie Holmes, Endurance, 2020. Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 66 x 40 inches. Image by Emery Davis, courtesy of the artist and Library Street Collective.

Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter from Thibodaux, Louisiana, whose work tells the story of contemporary life for many black families in the Deep South.


This article appears in Athenaeum Review Issue 5 (Winter 2025), p. 102. Download a PDF copy.
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Athenaeum Review is an open-access, public-facing journal that publishes essays, reviews, and podcasts by leading scholars in the arts and humanities. Devoting serious critical attention to the arts in Dallas and Fort Worth, we also consider books and ideas of national and international significance. Athenaeum Review is a publication of the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas.

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