Historically, the relationship between Black Americans and the American South—in both the art world and the world writ large—is reduced to that of oppression and enslavement, with little attention paid to the creative and scientific innovations that both preceded and followed emancipation. The California African American Museum in Los Angeles hopes to change that limited understanding with its current exhibition, “World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project” (on view through March 2), which opened this fall as part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART exhibition initiative. The show gives George Washington Carver his long-overdue flowers, not just for his scientific prowess but also for his less celebrated work as an artist. Cocurated by CAAM executive director Cameron Shaw and independent curator Yael Lipschutz, the show aims to illustrate how Carver’s creative thinking fueled his technological advancements. Related Articles Carver, an innovative scientist and educator who was born into slavery, was renowned in the early 20th century for his myriad agricultural inventions—often left unpatented by the self-proclaimed “people’s scientist” by design. Carver’s pioneering plant-based approaches …