Whitney Washington reflects on the monuments, sculptures, and tributes to Black history found at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama through this Knock Knock feature.
Hannah Spears reviews the fragile archives and reclaimed lands found in Elizabeth M. Webb: a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Auburn.
“I can build anything I want to build. I’m not a narrative painter. I don’t do the idea or the painting being the illustration of an idea, I don’t do that. It’s all about the materiality of the paint,” notes the late Jack Whitten. In February’s Art21 x Burnaway feature, we pay homage to the Alabama-born artist’s fifty-year career and ingenuity for invention.
Justin Chance ruminates on the dependencies of life, death, and survival in an exhibition of the work of artist Ronald Lockett at MARCH.
Burnaway editor Jasmine Amussen looks back at the abyss and heavenly firmament of rural Southern girlhood thru the music of Jewel and Ethel Cain.
Champion of outcasts, Nashville-based artist Vadis Turner redefines what it means to be “off the grid” in ‘Encounters’ at the Huntsville Museum of Art.
In this interview, Bryn Evans speaks with artist Lava Thomas and curator Dr. Bridget R. Cooks, discussing Southern family origins, the supposed sanctity of photography, and serendipity’s sweet magic.
Burnaway takes a close look at Encounters, an exhibition by Vadis Turner at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama.
Our monthly round up of calls, residencies, and opportunities includes residencies at Light Work in Syracuse and the Studio at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.
