Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed and Fuel the American South presents work by photojournalist Kate Medley. On view from February 22 to May 24, this exhibition offers audiences an opportunity to experience firsthand the photographs from Medley’s award-winning book of the same title. Featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others, Thank You Please Come Again was named a Best Book of 2024 by National Public Radio, won the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters prize in photography, and was a finalist for a James Beard Award.

Kate Medley is a visual journalist who covers national news across the American South and focuses on storytelling and environmental portraiture, often exploring issues of social justice and the shifting politics of this region. A native of Mississippi now based in North Carolina, Medley traveled across the South, logging thousands of miles across eleven states over ten years, making some 150 stops at gas station grills, buffets, and quick marts. “The gas stations I stopped at compelled me to dig deeper and to wonder: who lives here? What do they do for work? What do they eat? What do they believe? What is important in their America? Their South?” These are the questions that drove Medley, and that shape the exhibition‑‑prompting audiences to consider our cultures, explore these facets of folklife, and deepen human connection across the countertop.