«Souls Grown
Deep: African - American
Vernacular Art of the South,» a groundbreaking exhibition of over 450 artworks by some 30 contemporary artists, highlighting a significant artistic
tradition that has risen in concert with the Civil Rights Movement.
By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts resulted in an ambitious project to survey the visual
tradition of the African American South: an exhibition and two - volume book, titled Souls Grown
Deep: African American
Vernacular Art of the South, which was ultimately presented at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and remains the most in - depth scholarly examination of its kind.