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.
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.
Topher Lineberry reviews Vera B. William / STORIES at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville.
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.
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.
JD Ellison experiences the confusing clash of the Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience at the Asheville Art Museum.
Carolinas editor Susan Lee Mackey observes the successes and failures of public land management through two new exhibits at the Asheville Art Museum.
Pike School of Art receives an Our Town Grant from the NEA, awardees for the 2022 Edge Award are announced as well as other awardees from CAC NOLA and Center for Craft, and more in Burnaway’s bi-weekly news roundup.
Burnaway takes a Close Look at a group show spanning over four decades of ceramic sculpture from the Asheville Art Museum’s permanent collection.
