Woodruff Library showcases painter Benny Andrews set to the words of Flannery O'Connor and Alice Walker

Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker. (Andrews photo courtesy of SCAD and with permission of the Benny Andrews estate; O'Connor photo courtesy of Ina Dillard Russell Library, Georgia College and State University; Walker photo by Rhoda Nathans/The New York Times)

A major exhibition at Emory’s Woodruff Library is the first to bring together the lives and work of three renowned Georgia-born artists — painter Benny Andrews with writers Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker.

“At The Crossroads” compares and contrasts the lives of Andrews, O’Connor and Walker, pulling together a cohesive display of these Georgia artists set to be on view at the Woodruff Library through May 18.

Curators Gabrielle Dudley and Rosemary Magee join Lois Reitzes on “City Lights” to discuss their vision for the exhibition.