The Stillmoreroots Group was founded in September of 2002 by five artists residing in southeastern Georgia.

The group originally formed with the purpose of having an art exhibition in the unique setting of a managed pine forest. A hallmark of a managed pine forest is that all the trees are of similar age and height and are planted in rigidly calculated rows. This manufactured environment doesn't support and sustain the typically healthy biodiverse relationships found within a standard forest. Many birds and wildlife can’t live in a managed pine forest; this makes the environment unseasonably quiet and solemn. In 2003, the exhibit was held on one such farm within the community of Stillmore, Georgia.

Challenging the artist and the viewer by taking the art into this environment, the Stillmoreroots group decided to add new elements to the art viewing experience. Each of the members of the group invited one artist that inspired them to exhibit in Stillmore. On March 21, 2003, the spring equinox, the Stillmoreroots group invited members from surrounding communities to share and celebrate a gathering known as "Art in the Woods."

Since the inaugural show, the Stillmoreroots group has collaborated on twelve shows throughout the southeast in alternative and traditional art venues. The members exhibit and create art events in communities across Georgia but reunite each year in the community of Stillmore. Here, the annual “Art in the Woods” exhibition has not only become a celebration of art and community, it has become a tradition.

The last year and a half has been an especially important time to Stillmoreroots as we have dedicated ourselves to a number of tasks and goals. After two years of working with communities all across this country as social workers in Oregon, as working artists in New York, as teachers in Statesboro, Athens, and Savannah, we decided that our time can be better spent affecting under-served art communities in the rural south as a focused and dedicated group. To that end, five of the Stillmoreroots now eight members moved in the fall of 2005 to work in conjunction with the local community of Swainsboro.