Victoria Landers

Victoria graduated with a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in July 2020. She is currently based in Moore County, North Carolina, working with local non-profits by day and expanding her artistry by night. They are also the Head of Media and Design and Producer for GOOD FOLK, which

a newsletter, podcast, and community project that aims to celebrate the vast and mighty world of Southern art.

 

Since the unexpected move back to their hometown due to covid, Victoria’s work has shifted to highlight the stories, people, and communities tied to the South. Victoria looks to capture the complex and complicated relationship of growing up queer in the South while also looking to highlight and pay homage to the backroads and the unique community that helped raise them. A quote from their dear friend, folklorist, and southern writer Spencer George stays at the forefront of their mind as they create:

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Kindness, empathy, and happiness are the greatest forms of rebellion we possess. If the world had its way, we would grow up and out of our dreams and fall into place amongst the drudgery of everyday life, keeping to ourselves and seeking out only what is familiar. Choosing instead to be loving and open to the world, to be surprised by it, to be broken open by connection— that is resistance. It is difficult to live this way, but it is also free, and freeing. We already possess this capacity within us. Our great work is learning how to harness it.