The Fuel and Lumber Company Presents: July

Jessica Ingram

Juliet is my mother’s name, pronounced Jul-yet by her mother. July. With heat that melts you into wet slowness and surrender. Cicadas pulsing, sweat dripping down my hands. Goldfinches and hummingbirds and heavy bees feasting on my mother’s volunteer zinnias before they go to seed. How can that goldfinch even sit on such a small stem without it bowing? July. The month I was born. This year spent quietly at home in the yard with the flowers and symphony of birds and bugs and my dogs and a whiskey sweating. 

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The Fuel and Lumber Company was founded by artists Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte in 2013 to facilitate exhibitions and related programming in the Southeast and beyond. The Fuel And Lumber Company is an idea, not a traditional brick and mortar space, dedicated to contemporary art and community engagement.
To find out more, visit the F&L website here.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jessica Ingram explores social progress and resistance in American culture through narrative, archives, and representational media, with a focus on the American South. Her commitments to acknowledgment, care, and social justice infuse her explorations of communities and histories. Ingram holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, Oxford American, Vice, Wired Magazine, NPR, and as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. Her first book Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial (UNC Press 2020) was named a “Best Art Book of 2020” by The New York Times. Her second monograph, We Are Carver (self-published, Switzerland, 2023), was shortlisted for Aperture Foundation Paris Photo’s Best Book of the Year in 2024. Beyond her creative practice, Ingram works as a consultant on strategic planning and implementation to academic and non-profit organizations, and advocates for young people who involved with the juvenile legal system in Nashville, where she is based.