Recent Publications and Reviews

Link to my most recent catalog through the Stanek Gallery

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1570121?__r=838852

The Ghosts of Cotton in the American Landscape
John Dowell spins redemption from cotton’s painful history at the African American Museum of Philadelphia
African American Museum Shows Striking Photography And More In Cotton

The Inquirer December 2018 (Review of Cotton The Soft Dangerous Beauty of the Past)

http://www.philly.com/arts/cotton-john-dowel-african-american-museum-aamp-philadelphia-20181219.html

Blavity Article

https://blavity.com/cotton-comes-alive-and-reminds-us-of-its-dark-past-in-john-dowells-latest-exhibition

The Inquirer

https://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/john-dowell-cotton-exhibit-philadelphia-african-american-museum-20180925.html

Broad Street Review

https://www.broadstreetreview.com/museums/aamp-presents-john-dowell-cotton-the-soft-dangerous-beauty-of-the-past#

Philadelphia Tribune

https://www.phillytrib.com/entertainment/hardness-of-cotton-field-work-on-display-in-new-exhibit/article_804ee965-30a4-5d60-b6fe-58bfaaf0d03d.html

Sugarcane Magazinehttps://sugarcanemag.com/2018/11/cotton-the-soft-dangerous-beauty-of-the-past/