MYTH | Atlanta Reader Release Apr 22, 2026 Atlanta, Georgia

Wednesday, April 22nd, 6:30 – 8:30 PM ET
Oakland Cemetery
374 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. SE
Atlanta, Georgia

Join Burnaway in Atlanta at Oakland Cemetery to celebrate our new print reader MYTH! We’ll be at the Oakland Cemetery Visitor’s Center on the second floor on Wednesday, April 22 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 staff will offer remarks about the reader. Refreshments will be provided.

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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.

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About illumine at Oakland Cemetery

When the sun goes down, historic Oakland Cemetery lights up for illumine, our annual after-dark arts event. After dark, the night reveals light-centered interactive and immersive art in a “gallery space” unlike any in Atlanta. This year, guests can experience illumine in new ways – new artists, new routes, and new ticket levels. Cat Eye Creative returns as Oakland’s curation partner, and new partners – the High Museum, Atlanta Downtown, and the Neon Company – are bringing their creativity to the illumine landscape. Artists VAYNE and Vanna Black return, and new artists Christina Kwan, SCAD professor emeritus Marcia R. Cohen, Fabian Williams, Jordan Oleson-Graves, Eddie Farr, Daniel Phelps, and illumine’s first posthumous artist, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925 – 1972).

This year, there are more ways to experience illumine – general admission ($25), premium tickets ($50), pick-your-price nights (Sundays), and Artist Spotlight tours led by illumine artists and curators.

Learn more and get tickets here.

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