From Those Hands
For Burnaway’s March Mood Ring, Rita Harper traces the matriarchal lineage of a One Step Polaroid Instant Camera through photographs of the past and present across New Orleans, Atlanta, and Logtown, Georgia in From Those Hands.
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Reflections From the 2025 National Performance Network Conference
In partnership with National Performance Network, a New-Orleans based network of artists and organization, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker reflects on NPN’s 2025 conference—from the theme of stormshaping to diversifying resources across working-class artists.
Kinship in the Indigenous Gulf Stream: In Conversation with Flowers Darling and Dane Verret
Hali Dardar speaks with Dane Verret and Flowers Darling about Afro-Indigeneity, dreams, and the true meaning of what it means to say, “land back.”
In the Studio with Jacq François
Kristina Kay Robinson visits the New Orleans studio of Jacq François, who navigates loss and lineage and the preservation of memory during a time in the United States that is all about forgetting.
All Aboard the Mardi Gras Line
In November’s co-publishing initiative with Oxford American, Holly Devon reports on Amtrak’s new Mardi Gras Service line that restores passenger rail transit between New Orleans and Mobile on the Gulf Coast.
A View from Beyond the Deadline
In October’s co-publishing initiative with Oxford American, Lauren Stroh contextualizes The Angolite, the Southern penal press in the era of mass incarceration.
Maaliyah Symoné: Ritual Rest at The Front, New Orleans
Quinn Foster reviews the revolutionary healing found in Ritual Rest, an exhibition and performance ritual by Maaliyah Symoné at The Front, New Orleans.
Mouth of the River, Port of my Heart: Port of New Orleans, Notes on Reading
Kristina Kay Robinson considers what happens when deities, beings, and lineages not meant to be understood are conjured in the beginning, ending, and beginning again of New Orleans in this next GHOST theme feature.
Water as Witness: In Conversation with Jessica Monette
Bryn Evans interviews Jessica Monette about her ever evolving relationship with water, marking the twentieth year since Katrina.
