The Southern Collective Experience

About this Organization

The Southern Collective Experience is an organization of and for artists founded in 2010 by poet Clifford Brooks. Members are men and women who have achieved a certain level of mastery and accomplishment in their work and who see a need for ongoing professional support among creative peers. The Collective encourages mutual inspiration and professional growth in a family-like environment, across the mediums of visual art, music, poetry, and prose. Members contribute their different gifts and talents to advance the organization’s activities, which include gatherings, readings, exhibitions, performances, publishing, and promotional opportunities through social media and networking. The arts journal The Blue Mountain Review and a radio show, Dante’s Old South, are produced under the Collective’s auspices.