In our next 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.
Courtney Napier profiles Durham artist Maya Freelon, who highlights Black family stories, resilience, and the colors and textures of her African American heritage, drawing viewers into the vast Black imagination.
Amina Daugherty profiles the community work of Atlanta-based artist Tatiana Bell, answering questions on how care can be reclaimed and grief can be navigated communally.
Sophia Wright profiles Elysia Mann, based in Knoxville, through the initimate handweaving and ties to Appalachian craft tradition that characterizes her woven works.
Ming Joi Washington reviews Andrea Chung: Between Too Late and Too Early, highlighting Chung’s practice as a “curriculum of care” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.
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.
For the March edition of Burnaway’s co-publishing with Oxford American, Caroline McCoy speaks with two former National Park Service employees from Arkansas, whose jobs were not reviewed before they were terminated.
Tara Escolin details the multivalent works on view found in An American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.
For our next iteration of the Annotations column, Andrew Westover converses with Dr. Gautham Reddy, a Hindu scholar and Emory University’s South Asian Studies Librarian, about one of St. EOM’s sculptures.
