In Her Place

Kathryn E. Delmez has been a curator at the Frist Art Museum since 2001. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage; LeXander Bryant: Forget Me Nots; Bethany Collins: Evensong; Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar (with Jamaal Sheats, director and curator, Fisk University Galleries); Murals of North Nashville Now; We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957–1968; Nick Cave: Feat.; Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows; and María Magdalena Campos‑Pons: Journeys. She was also the curator of a major retrospective on photographer Carrie Mae Weems that traveled to four venues, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Delmez has been the editor of several accompanying books and overseen the presentation of more than 35 touring exhibitions at the Frist such as Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, and 30 Americans.Laura Hutson Hunter is a writer, editor, and curator based in Nashville. She has been the arts editor of the Nashville Scene for more than a decade and curates the exhibition series Adult Contemporary.

• This Must Be the Place: Director’s Foreword and AcknowledgmentsSeth FemanForewordKaty HesselIntroduction: Nashville’s Magnetism Is Its MysterySai Clayton and Kathryn E. DelmezSouthern Artists and Their Discontents: Why Place Still MattersLaura Hutson HunterNashville’s “Good-Ole-Girl” Network: Art Leaders at the End of the Twentieth CenturyVivien Green FrydTender Loving Care: Notes on Art Work and Care WorkMichelle Millar FisherThe Power to Imagine: The Artist-Educators of In Her PlaceShaun GilesGeneration Next: Women Art Leaders in Twenty-First-Century NashvilleJoe NolanSilence Is a Form of Communication: Voices on the Life and Art of Alicia Henry (1966–2024)Michael J. EwingPlatesArtist BiographiesSai Clayton, Mac Cooper, Laura Hutson Hunter, and Mouminatou ThiawSetting the Stage: A Selected Chronology of the Nashville Art World, 1949–2001Susan W. KnowlesPhotography CreditsContributorsLenders to the Exhibition

"Perhaps place means more, not less, than it used to. It is where you are from and also where you choose to be. It is a setting for human behavior. Place—that particular point of view that can ground an artist—is more important than it has ever been. It just looks different now."—Laura Hutson Hunter, excerpt from the essay "Southern Artists and Their Discontents"