New Faces of Tradition

Photo by Phyllis B. Dooney. Damir Watson, Gospel Drummer, Hillsborough, NC.

In the spring of 2019, I co-led a partnership between Duke Arts and the North Carolina Art Council’s Folklife Program to recruit student and professional volunteer photographers to work collaboratively with emerging traditional artists to create meaningful and useful portraits.

See the portraits in Southern Cultures (June 2020)

Listen to the WUNC story (June 2019)

Duke University feature (June 2019)