Corey Alston
He // Him // His
[ID: A man, smiling proudly and wearing a brightly-colored patterned shirt, holds an intricately-woven sweetgrass basket.]
Portrait photo courtesy of the artist.
Mount Pleasant, SC
2024 USA Fellow
This award was generously supported by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.
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Corey Alston has been recognized by many for his tireless effort to keep his heritage alive for his generation. Alston has been featured in magazines, TV shows, and world-renowned museums. You can find him mostly keeping his artform alive by keeping the world informed on social media sites. Alston is a direct dependent of Enslaved Africans and is proud teaching others about his heritage by doing public educational talks all over the country.
Sweetgrass basket. Photo courtesy of the artist.[ID: The artist Corey Alston, a man with brown skin, a bald head, and a full beard smiles at us. He has small dimples on both cheeks. He is seen from the waist up holding an unfinished woven basket in his left hand and a bundle of sweetgrass in his right. He wears a robin's-egg-blue collared shirt with an electric-blue undershirt.]
Charleston Visitor Center banner. Photo by Joel Caldwell.[ID: A street banner featuring a photograph of the artist Corey Alston. He smiles and holds a beige-colored woven basket. To the right of the photo is a bar of vertical white text on a purple background that reads, "Explore Charleston Visitor Center."]
Sweetgrass baskets. Photo courtesy of the artist.[ID: A photograph of the artist, Corey Alston, standing in a park holding up two large woven baskets constructed with wavy organic lines and shapes. Alston wears a bright-teal polo shirt, black shorts, and coordinated teal shoes.]