A Reading and Conversation with Courtney Faye Taylor and Victoria Dugger

Victoria Dugger (b. 1991, Columbus, Georgia) is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens, Georgia. Her recent exhibitions include New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch at the Atlanta Contemporary; F*CK ART: The Body and Its Absence at the Museum of Sex in New York City; and Soft Anatomy at JEFF in Marfa, Texas. Her first solo show in New York, Out of Body, took place at Sargent’s Daughters and was reviewed by ARTnews and Hyperallergic.       Dugger received her MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She won the 2023 Southern Prize for Visual Arts and the 2024 Hudgens Prize, one of the largest art prizes in the nation, which is reserved for Georgia artists. The solo show accompanying the prize is currently mounted at the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning in Duluth, Georgia, through 26 October 2025.

Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and other honors. Her writing and visual art can be found in Poetry, The Nation, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art online and elsewhere. Recipient of a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship in fiction and the 92Y Discovery Prize, Courtney lives in Atlanta, GA where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Agnes Scott College.

https://www.thehudgens.org/

https://courtneyfayetaylor.com/bio

http://www.victoriadugger.studio/about-ishimoto