The Underground Railroad Quilt Code
Colony Little discusses the folklore and oral histories behind the Underground Railroad Quilt Code for Burnaway’s STORM SIGNAL theme.
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On a Star Departing the Attic: Blackness, the Page, and the Camera. [An Essay as Microtreatment.]
In this feature for Burnaway’s SAWTOOTH STAR theme, Kristina Kay Robinson writes about the aesthetic and narrative interventions of early southern Black projectionists.
Review: Retiro at the 61st Venice Biennale
Lucy Sternbach reviews Puerto Rican artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Gloria Morillo’s collaborative film installation of Retiro for In Minor Keys at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Deciphering the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail, a travelogue
For Burnaway’s SCHOOLHOUSE theme, Whitney Washington travels along the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail, reflecting on the traditional meaning-making behind quilt patterns and the tensions between identity, home, and history underlying the project.
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.
Journey to Shupingagua with Sterling Rook
In this conversation for STORM SIGNAL, Alexandra Martinez and Miami-based artist Sterling Rook discuss familial stories of survival and visual ambiguity in the artist’s spring 2026 exhibition, Shupingagua, at Tunnel Projects in Miami.
L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation in partnership with the L.V. Hull Legacy Center at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
Daniel Fuller examines the dense, immersive qualities of L.V. Hull’s art-making as shown in the exhibition, L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation, a partnership with the L.V. Hull Legacy Center at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson.
The Summer I Lay Dying
In our inaugural STORM SIGNAL theme release, Jasmine Amussen discusses The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s hallucinatory, yet Southern Gothic, qualities, and compares the hit show to William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying.
Clare Hu: The Haptic Optics of Overshot Weaving
Courtney McClellan examines reproduction, materiality, and legacy in New York-based, Georgia-born artist Clare Hu’s weavings.
