Episode No. 580 features artist Sheila Pree Bright.

Sheila Pree Bright is included in "Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund," which is at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia through January 8, 2023.  The Do Good Fund is a Columbus, Ga.-based charity that collects and makes available to museums photography of the American South made from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition includes artists such as Jill Frank, Baldwin Lee, Deborah Luster, Gordon Parks, and RaMell Ross.

Bright's work builds narratives about social, political and historical events through series of pictures of landscape, social justice movements, suburbia, and more. Solo exhibitions of Bright's work have been held at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and more. Bright's book "#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests" was published by Chronicle Books in 2018. Amazon and Indiebound offer it for $18-30.

This episode was taped live at the GMOA.

Air date: December 15, 2022.