American Illustration 45 Winners

When the South Awakened

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord helped kick-start the American Revolution

This Land / More Than Peanuts: A farmer's daughter gets awakened to George Washington Carver's legacy

Cannaday Chapman combines watercolor and digital illustration to create artwork to accompany writer Latria Graham's recurring This Land column in each issue of Garden & Gun. As Graham's column often centers people of color in relationship to the environment and natural world, so do Chapman's illustrations. In 2025, Chapman depicted Graham's visit to the Museum of Infinite Outcomes in Knoxville, stargazing in Monte Sano Nature Preserve in Huntsville, Alabama, Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, a Puerto Rican cloud forest, Graham's memory of growing up picking black walnuts, and a visit to a national monument site dedicated to George Washington Carver.

This Land / Blessed Assurance

Cannaday Chapman combines watercolor and digital illustration to create artwork to accompany writer Latria Graham's recurring This Land column in each issue of Garden & Gun. As Graham's column often centers people of color in relationship to the environment and natural world, so do Chapman's illustrations. In 2025, Chapman depicted Graham's visit to the Museum of Infinite Outcomes in Knoxville, stargazing in Monte Sano Nature Preserve in Huntsville, Alabama, Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, a Puerto Rican cloud forest, Graham's memory of growing up picking black walnuts, and a visit to a national monument site dedicated to George Washington Carver.

A writer rediscovers the significance of George Washington Carver, who, even as a lauded scientist, was subjugated—pressed to use the servants’ entrance well into his seventies.