Holbrook Memorial Program: “Making the South Modern”

Join us for a dynamic conversation about the American South’s contribution to 20th-century modernism, which developed through various styles, themes and artists and emerged around key sites of artistic instruction like the University of Georgia and the vanguard programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the region. This panel is presented with the special exhibition “Southern/Modern.” Panelists will include Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art; Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of African and African American art at Vanderbilt University; and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. This program is part of the University of Georgia’s Signature Lecture Series.