SEWANEE PRAISES
is a collaborative public humanities initiative involving teams of architecture and design students and faculty from Virginia Commonwealth and Virginia Tech universities in partnership with the people of Sewanee’s historic African American neighborhoods, and supported by the University of the South’s Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation.

OUR GOAL
is to design and construct a commemorative structure — a gathering place — on the site of the segregated Kennerly School, built in 1949 and demolished in 2010.

OUR MISSION & VISION
are to recognize and honor the history of Sewanee’s Black St. Mark’s community. 

Learn more at: sewaneepraises.org