SOUTHERN FOCUS Maya Freelon
Book: Jacqueline Stofsick Fierce, funny, formidable. For centuries, women have formed the backbone of the South, yet for too long their stories have been overlooked, underestimated, or diminished to a moonlight-and-magnolias myth. No more—on October 29, Garden & Gun will release its latest book, Southern Women (Harper Wave), featuring more than a hundred groundbreaking voices and tributes from across the region, from Oscar winners such as Texas native Sissy Spacek, whose accent Hollywood once treated as a barrier, to visionary artists such as Durham, North Carolina’s Maya Freelon, photographed here on a farm in Hillsborough. In the book, Freelon says she stands on the shoulders of her ancestors, and calls her sprawling tissue-paper artworks—which have appeared in exhibitions and installations in such museums as the Smithsonian—a…