In the Studio with Casey Engel
Merin McDivitt visits the studio of Asheville-based artist Casey Engel whose ceramic, fiber, and paper works resemble artifacts from an extraterrestrial world.
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In the Studio with Harley Burns
Robert Alan Grand visits the Asheville studio of painter Harley Burns to discuss their paintings that speak to the experience of being trans and gender nonconforming in the South, and celebrating the importance of living authentically.
Outside the Lines at Blue Spiral 1, Asheville
Merin McDivitt reviews Asheville’s Blue Spiral 1’s Outside the Lines, where artists adopt an irreverent approach to surfaces, creating overlapping layers of meaning through unexpected textures and lines, as well as revelations of color and contour.
Memory Reliquaries: Daniel Essig’s Bricolage Of Meaning-Making
Sophia Wright profiles the work of Daniel Essig, an Asheville-based artist whose sculptural books bridge together the ancient and spiritual with contemporary craft.
History Painting #1 (for B.N.) in the wake of Helene
In this special contribution, Asheville-based artist Hannah Cole reflects on the destruction of her studio by Hurricane Helene, the loss of most of her life’s work, and how she’s navigating the changes to her practice through describing one surviving piece.
Carly Owens Weiss: The Boys Will Get Hungry if They See Fruit at Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville
Robert Alan Grand, Editor at Large for the Carolinas, reviews Carly Owens Weiss’s debut solo show in her hometown at Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville.
Vera B. Williams / STORIES at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville
Topher Lineberry reviews Vera B. William / STORIES at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville.
Earth Day 2022
Burnaway staff celebrates the month of April with a list of our favorite organizations, BA stories, albums, artists, films, books, and events for Earth Day.
Bless me before you go: Envisioning Black sanctuary in bell hooks’s Appalachian Elegy and Moses Sumney’s Blackalachia
Bryn Evans revisits the writing of bell hooks and finds new visions of Appalachia as a site of refuge and freedom for Black folks while viewing Asheville-based musician and multi-disciplinary storyteller Moses Sumney’s Blackalachia, the artist’s first concert film.
