Nestled in the red clay of central Virginia, the town of Farmville sits at the intersection of Revolutionary War, Civil War, and Civil Rights Movement histories. For transdisciplinary designer, artist, and educator Curry J. Hackett, who operates a practice called Wayside Studio, that history is personal. Hackett attended county schools where his mother, artist Penny Stiff Hackett, taught art and whose practices were part of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. “It was important for Curry to understand the land that his great-grandfather purchased many, many, many, many, many years ago,” she told AN. “Whenever we visited my grandmother, I would take Curry outside and
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