Statement
My work which examines my experiences with Southern culture acts as a mapping out of memory and nostalgia for the rural Southern community I came from and questions the relationships between culture, trauma, stereotypes, and belonging. In my body of work, it is my hope that one may find a representation of themselves they rarely, if ever, see in fine art settings. I see my art as a unique opportunity to contribute to the visibility of the type of community that shaped me and other individuals who are similarly invisible in fine arts spaces.
This representation has the potential to open the way to a more rounded understanding of the background I come from both inside and outside my community. This has already begun to happen as I present my work in regional and national exhibitions and academic conferences; other Southern academics and artists have reached out to me an expressed the importance of my work and the visibility it brings to the struggle of inheriting and owning one’s Southern or rural background in the United States.
Bio
Brittani Brown is an artist raised in Mossy Head, FL and based in Orlando, FL. She received her B.F.A. in Studio Art in 2021 and is in the process of obtaining her M.F.A. in Emerging Media: Studio Art and Design in 2025 – both from the University of Central Florida. Her work examines what it means to be raised as a Southern woman and a Southern person turned from religion while referencing her childhood experiences in Walton County, Florida. She expresses this narrative using photography, textile arts, and printmaking. She has been awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship and the Adler Family Fund for Excellence scholarship at the University of Central Florida. Brittani has participated in several group art exhibitions including First Thursdays and PLATFORM events at Orlando Museum of Art, the Inaugural National Juried Graduate Exhibition at the University of Mississippi, and Fresh Squeezed 8 at the Morean Gallery of St. Petersburg, FL, and ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina.