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.
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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.
Soundclash: Rural Avant-Garde at Asheville Art Museum
JD Ellison experiences the confusing clash of the Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience at the Asheville Art Museum.
Corrections in the Public Domain
Carolinas editor Susan Lee Mackey observes the successes and failures of public land management through two new exhibits at the Asheville Art Museum.
May 19, 2021
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.
