Thursday, April 9th, 6:30 – 8:30 PM ET
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
120 College Street
Asheville, North Carolina
Join Burnaway in Asheville at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate our new print reader MYTH! We’ll be at BMCM+AC on Thursday, April 9 from 6:30-8:30. Come out and celebrate Southern and Caribbean arts and culture writing with us!
The event is free and open to the public. Copies of MYTH will be available for purchase, and Burnaway editorial staff will offer remarks about the project. Refreshments will be provided.
About MYTH
Steeped in oral tradition, community narratives across time, and the avenues in which fiction becomes fact, the texts from the 2026 Reader MYTH expand on how historical belief and current events merge and are translated into contemporary archetypes for art and artists across the South and the Caribbean. Essays consider three themes that focus on characters and beings that lie parallel to landscapes and individual ecosystems, from the physical sensation of a haunting that translates to a ghostly artistic presentation to conceptual art that is playful and deceives initial perception. The artists, works, and practices found in this volume are larger-than-life, existing as variations from a stereotype and nuanced understandings of the Ghost, the Trickster, the Siren.
Within this volume, writers speak in further detail on:
- a Japanese American artist in Kentucky who creates three-dimensional body sculpture
- re-remembering a photograph from South Carolina that expands on memory as an active process, and aperture as critical in the region
- the Black aural archive of 1970s and 1980s video works by Phillip Mallory Jones
- a Durham-born, Miami-based artist who created and plays in a parafictional women’s basketball league, inspired by Ernie Barnes
- the Jamaican myth of the River Mumma as explored through mixed media works
- a Nashville monument that investigates restorative nostalgia
- a lens and text-based artist project by Houston-based artist Debra Barrera
Existing between the space occupied by periodicals, academic journals, and art objects, MYTH covers thirteen states plus the Caribbean, and is carried by public and private universities, large-scale institutions, DIY spaces, private collectors, and a thoughtful, curious cultural audience.
About Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) preserves and continues the legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College (BMC). We achieve our mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs.