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Nasher Reads: Author Randall Kenan
Wednesday, November 16, 11 AM

Join museum staff for a group discussion of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by North Carolina author Randall Kenan. Portions of the conversation will take place in the Southern Accent exhibtion.

Upcoming Tours in Southern Accent

Thursday, November 17, 6 PM
Free Highlights Tour. Join gallery guides Meg Williams and Susana Burns for a guided discussion of the changing face of the South.

Sunday, November 20, 2 PM
Free Highlights Tour. Join gallery guides Kate Newman and Meg Williams for a guided discussion of  representations of race.

Free Live Performance: shirlette ammons
Thursday, November 17, 7 PM

5:30 PM Cash Bar
 
6 PM Free Highlights tour

7 PM Durham-based artist shirlette ammons performs from her perspective as a North Carolina native, African American and queer artist, to complement Southern Accent.

Gallery Talk: Southern Accent Artist Mel Chin and Author Roy Scranton
Friday, November 18, 2 PM

Southern Accent artist Mel Chin and author and Iraq war veteran Roy Scranton will talk about climate change, war and questions of responsibility and sustainability in the gallery near Chin's work, Terrapine Carolina (Hillbilly Armor).

Listen to Chin's original song about his sculpture in an episode of the Nasher Museum's Open Studio podcast.

Co-sponsored by Duke's Forum for Scholars and Publics.

Free with admission. Free to all active duty military personnel and military veterans with I.D.

Nasher Creates: Sketching in the Galleries
Saturday, November 19, 10 AM

Artist Mark Iwinski will give a brief lesson on sketching as a way to respond to art - then you can try it out in the galleries!

Southern Cinema Film Series - North Carolina Filmmakers
Sunday, November 20, 2 PM

Southern Shorts, a program of short documentary films made by N.C. filmmakers.

Kudzu Vine (2011, director Josh Gibson, 20 minutes), One Night in Kernersville (2011, director Rodrigo Dorfman, 20 minutes), After Sherman (2016, director Jon-Sesrie Goff, 30 minutes), The Last Barn Dance (2014, directors Ted Richardson and Jason Arthurs, 32 minutes).

Co-sponsored by the Duke Screen/Society.

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Recommended: Charlie Parr, featuring Phil Cook & the Stumpjumpers, at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro
Friday, November 18, 8 PM

A big thank you goes out to The ArtsCenter in Carrboro for helping us to book amazing live music at our Southern Accent opening party.

Head over to Carrboro this Friday to see some good southern music!

Charlie Parr, having made his way from the plains of Duluth, Minnesota, to the forests of North Carolina, has won over crowds with his rustic, resonator-fueled folk songs. His latest release, Stumpjumper, was recorded in a farm outbuilding with the aid of fellow musician Phil Cook of Megafaun and Hiss Golden Messenger, who will join Parr alongside the rest of the Stumpjumpers for a unique all-star lineup of American roots music. Tickets and more info.

"The show, which approaches the South as both a popular myth and a lived reality, includes outsiders to the region...But the southerners born, raised and still in residence–Douglas Bourgeois, Diego Camposeco, Michael Galinsky, Birney Imes, Jessica Ingram, George Jenne, Tameka Norris, Tom Rankin, Jim Roche, Amy Sherald, Burk Uzzle, Stacy Lynn Waddell–are the names you're likely to remember longest. Spirits of place, they'll haunt you." —Holland Cotter, The New York Times

                       

Banner photo from Facebook user Delaney Dryfoos.

Catherine Opie, Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina from the series Domestic, 1998. Chromogenic print, edition 4/5; 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Catherine Opie.

Photos of shirlette ammons and Mel Chin by J Caldwell. Sketch courtesy Mark Iwinski.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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