Anna Carnes ’19 is Gallery Manager of the Dalton Gallery and Manager of the Permanent Collection. Since 2019, Anna has developed exhibitions that directly engage with the conversations happening on campus about the challenges of our times. In 2020 she created and curated an original exhibition of young emerging talent, &yet, with community partners. This biannual show has awarded to date $9,000 to emerging artists. She is curating Patterns in Space.

Katherine Smith is Professor of Visual Practices in the Department of Creative Arts, where she teaches modern and contemporary art and theory. She joined the faculty of the former Department of Art and Art History in 2003. Her research and teaching have moved between postwar and contemporary art and architectural history, criticism and theory, including her book The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America and her essay on Denise Scott Brown; her area of focus is the moment of transition between modern and postmodern, exactly when Dana was designed and built. Her current research projects focus on Atlanta in the 1960s, including the unrealized Atlanta Gateway Park.

Katherine has participated in training with Re:wild Your Campus, and founded Re:wild Agnes in 2023. She has been raising awareness about the effects of and alternatives to herbicides/pesticides and leading transformations of local landscapes toward more biodynamic practices, recently at Oakhurst Elementary/City Schools of Decatur.

Nell Ruby is Professor of Visual Practices in the Department of Creative Arts, and an active visual artist. She has been teaching at Agnes Scott since 1996. Ruby was one of six elected faculty on the original task team to invent SUMMIT, which embeds experiences into the curriculum that ensure every graduate is equipped to be an impactful leader in a global world. She is the founder of The Center for Digital and Visual Literacy, a peer support center for digital technology and visual  approaches to persuasive communication. Nell is a professional graphic designer, a builder, a sculptor, a drafter and a new genre and mixed media artist. She comes to her projects with infectious enthusiasm.