Courtney Napier profiles Durham artist Maya Freelon, who highlights Black family stories, resilience, and the colors and textures of her African American heritage, drawing viewers into the vast Black imagination.
Colony Little reviews how Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland, the artist’s latest exhibition, offers a unique take on portraiture and compels viewers to crack the code at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham.
Courtney Napier reviews the importance of constitution and truth to American life found in By dawn’s early light at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham.
In the spirit of our Camouflage theme series, Laurel V. McLaughlin presents the work of Mel Chin in conversation with the language of birds.
In a new poem, Durham-based poet Destiny Hemphill looks beneath the surface of Wangechi Mutu’s Subterranea Flourish, featured in the Nasher Museum of Art’s exhibition, Spirit in the Land.
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.
Burnaway’s monthly news roundup includes an upcoming exhibition at the Georgia Museum honoring Lou Stovall, a new Wangechi Mutu installation at the Nasher Museum, and grant awardee announcements.
Carolinas editor Susan Lee Mackey visits the studio of artist Stacy Lynn Waddell to discuss her new work now on view in New York City.
Burnaway’s bi-weekly news roundup includes a partnership between Etsy, Gee’s Bend quilters, and Gullah Basket weavers; and the Mellon Foundation’s ‘Humanities in Place’ program awardees.
