Southern Accent: The Necessity of a Show Like This – Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Artists Stacy Lynn Waddell (left) and Jeff Whetstone (right) talk with Chief Curator Trevor Schoonmaker about the exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art for Southern Cultures journal. Photo by J Caldwell.

There’s a very sophisticated conversation in the South that people outside of the South don’t know about.
Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and co-curator of the exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art

Before the exhibition, Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art opened in September 2016, Southern Cultures sat down with Schoonmaker and artists Stacy Lynn Waddell and Jeff Whetstone, both featured in the exhibition. Read the interview in the Winter 2016 Issue.