credits

concept and art direction: Todd Slaughter, Melissa Yes (collaboration initiated in 2018)

sculpture: Todd Slaughter

video and sound design: Melissa Yes

interviewees:

  • John Archibald: journalist, Pulitzer Prize award winner

  • Dr. Terron Banner: researcher, community educator

  • Halley Cotton: writer, editor, professor

  • Atticus Hill: writer, model, high school student (at time of interview)

  • Elaff Houmsse: artist, radiology technician

  • Ashley Jones: poet, professor, Poet Laureate of Alabama

  • Andrew Mehall: artist, graduate student (at time of interview)

  • Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols: professor, scholar of U.S. intellectual, political, and cultural history

  • Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan: professor, interdisciplinary scholar of literature, material culture, and feminist theory

  • Todd Slaughter: artist, professor

“Young Identity: An Essay on Expectations” written and read by Atticus Hill

“Obituary: Atticus Finch, dead of heart failure at a ripe old age” written and read by John Archibald

sculpture contributions:

  • Bryan Zima: Gliding Dog, carved wood

  • Lucy Hanselman: Lucy's Place, crochet covered planet

  • fabrication assistance from Paul Simon, Andrew Newbold

video production: 1504, Yes Media

research: Tyler Jones, Todd Slaughter, Melissa Yes

interviews: Tyler Jones, Melissa Yes

1504 contributors: Jeremy Burns, Tyler Jones, Chandler Jones, Mark Slagle, Christina Terrell, Drew Young, Camille Womack

Yes Media contributors: J.R. Williams, Melissa Yes

Produced with financial support from 1504, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio Arts Council, The Ohio State University, and the Verdant Fund (a re-granting program of the Andy Warhol Foundation), and with in-kind support from The University of Alabama.

 

Thank you to our collaborators and interviewees, who are the beating heart of this work. Special thanks to Ray Wetzel and the Gadsden Museum of Art for granting us the space, time, and trust to present an early iteration of this research in Alabama in 2022, and to Tim Rietenbach and the Beeler Gallery for giving us the opportunity to develop and share this project with our community in Ohio.

With respect to Harper Lee and the enduring gift of her writing. Nelle, your words are with us every day.