Beverly Buchanan is famous for her drawings and sculptures of shacks.  Shacks are usually small houses made of found materials, built by untrained people.  People need food clothing and shelter.  Sometimes we buy the things we need.  Sometimes we make the things we need

Beverly Buchanan studied Southern vernacular architecture and folk art, which honor the history of Black ingenuity and resilience. 

Her sculptural “shacks,” she created intimate assemblage works replicating small, makeshift dwellings she saw throughout the rural South.