The What's Good Project

When I was living in Clarksdale that summer of 2012, I learned about Griot Arts, a new arts nonprofit that taught all kinds of after school arts classes to all kinds of local kids. Incidentally, a “griot” is a West African storyteller, poet, or musician, the keeper of cultural oral histories.

Fourteen years later, Griot is still killing it, grounding its work in creativity, community, and compassion.

🖼️: Griot, acrylic on wood 11.5” x 24”, 2026. To learn more, link to comments below.