Thursday, June 26, 2025 1-2PM EST
Instagram Live on @burnaway
We’re excited for our first Editor-to-Editor conversation of 2025 between New Orleans Editor Kristina Kay Robinson and Miami-based Editorial Assistant Isabella Marie Garcia! Tune into the conversation to hear about their experiences living in coastal cities and how environment affects their communities.
This virtual program will take place on Instagram Live on Thursday, June 26 at 1PM EST – join on @burnaway!
About Kristina
Kristina Kay Robinson is a poet, writer, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written, visual and curatorial practice centers and interrogates the modern and ancient connections between world communities. Robinson’s work both at home and abroad focuses on the impact of globalization, militarism, and surveillance on society and their intersections with contemporary art and pop culture.
Robinson’s ongoing installation and performance art project, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound has been presented in exhibition at “Welcome to the Afrofuture” during Miami Art Week, New Museum’s residency program, Ideas City, New Orleans African American Museum, in collaboration with MoMa’s Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America and currently,featured in Notes For Tomorrow with Independent Curators International. She is the co-editor of Mixed Company, a collection of short fiction and visual narratives by women of color. In addition to the anthology, the collective of writers hosted free cultural programming in the city of New Orleans. Notable events included a reading and lecture by Black Arts Movement poet, Sonia Sanchez at Le Musée de F.P.C and the American premiere of the award-winning Eritrean- Italian documentary, Asmarina. Robinson’s curatorial endeavors include Sudanese artist, Khalid Abdel Rahman’s A Disappearance hosted in 2017 by the Arts Council of New Orleans and Welcome to the Afrofuture: The Matrix of Creativity: Where the River Meets the Sea with New Orleans African American Museum.
She is a 2018 recipient of Tulane University’s Center for the Gulf South’s Monroe Fellowship, as well as a 2021 resident at A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism and a 2024 recipient of the Andy Warhol Arts Writer Grant in the category of Short Form Writing. Currently she serves as the New Orleans editor at large for Burnaway.
About Isabella
Isabella “Isa” Marie Garcia is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist, writer, and photographer living in her native Miami, Florida. Interested in alternative educational spaces, holistic aftercare, and supporting visual artists in the American South in her practice, she is a recipient of the 2024 WOPHA Research Fellowship for “The Photography Care Matrix: Teaching Traditional and Experimental Photo Techniques within Prison Environments, Residential Rehabs, and Alternative Schools.” Her writing can be found in publications such as Contemporary And América Latina, Prism, On / Off-Shore: Poets of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, The Art Newspaper, Miami New Times, So to Speak: A feminist journal of language and art, and Burnaway, where she currently works as their editorial assistant.