What Is a Folk School?
For Burnaway's SCHOOLHOUSE theme, Robert Alan Grand discusses the history and future of the folk school, touching on the influential, democratic John C. Campbell and Highlander Folk Schools.
Robert Alan Grand
Robert Alan Grand is a writer and photographer based in Asheville, NC. His writings have appeared in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, the Oxford American, and Burnaway, where he serves as the Carolinas Editor-at-Large. His photographs of the rural South have appeared in numerous exhibitions and regional publications. Before coming back home to the Carolinas, Grand was the co-founder and co-director of Kimberly-Klark, an interdisciplinary project space in Queens, New York.
Articles (14)
In the Studio with Harley Burns
Robert Alan Grand visits the Asheville studio of painter Harley Burns to discuss their paintings that speak to the experience of being trans and gender nonconforming in the South, and celebrating the importance of living authentically.
“Told From a Future Tense”: The Work of Benjy Russell
For the debut theme feature of TRICKSTER, Robert Alan Grand examines the slapdash glamour and queer subculture found in Benjy Russell's photographs.