Appalshop Spotlight: Morgan Sexton’s “Little Birdie”
In July’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Leo Shannon writes on the flood-salvaged recordings of Morgan Sexton, the East Kentucky banjo legend.
In July’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Leo Shannon writes on the flood-salvaged recordings of Morgan Sexton, the East Kentucky banjo legend.
In July’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Daniel Fuller travels around Houston on a John T. Biggers mural tour, detailing the artist’s legacy left around the city.
In June’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, UFO enthusiast and author Will Clarke goes behind the scenes at Rice University’s 2025 Archives of the Impossible Conference in Houston, Texas.
In June’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Colony Little examines how Black Mountain College catalyzed Ruth Asawa’s artistic career and arts education within San Francisco public schools.
For the May co-publishing feature with Oxford American, Ravi Howard dives into the history and lasting legacy of the Banana Docks in Mobile, Alabama.
For the May co-publishing feature with Oxford American, Alexandra Martinez thinks about nostalgia as a collective experience of Caribbean diasporas in Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos and Félix Rodríguez Báez’s El Ranchón’s .
For the April co-publishing feature with Oxford American, Emily McCrary explores how Auburn University’s James E. Foy Information Desk serves as a lifeline where student workers field all manner of questions from callers around the world.
For the April co-publishing feature with Oxford American, Thalia Butts pays tribute to the late Marquetta Johnson, a quilter based in Atlanta who compared her practice to jazz and inspired her students to stretch the boundaries of quilting as a medium.
For the March edition of Burnaway’s co-publishing with Oxford American, Ian Carstens pays tribute to the now closed Ruckus Journal, an independent arts journal based out of Louisville, Kentucky.