In the Studio with Susan Bowers
Lauren Stroh visits the New Orleans studio of Susan Bowers, alongside her life partner Genevieve McKeown, to discuss the literary references and the tonal imagery across her paintings.
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On a Star Departing the Attic: Blackness, the Page, and the Camera. [An Essay as Microtreatment.]
In this feature for Burnaway’s SAWTOOTH STAR theme, Kristina Kay Robinson writes about the aesthetic and narrative interventions of early southern Black projectionists.
In Conversation with DiQuan Forcell
Kristina Kay Robinson speaks with DiQuan Forcell, curator of FESTIVAL/NEW/WORKS, a group exhibition that marks the fiftieth anniversary of Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
In the Studio with Diana Antohe and Louise Mouton Johnson
Sherae Rimpsey visits the New Orleans studios of Diana Antohe and Louise Mouton Johnson to discuss their textile work, revealing and concealing, and grounding one’s practice in family.
Auudi Dorsey: Self Esteem and 2D Surrealism
Yashi Davalos profiles the work of New Orleans-based artist Auudi Dorsey, who paints the community of Lincoln Beach, a former man-made beach in New Orleans East.
Origins of Black Carnival Society: The Story of the Illinois Clubs at The Presbytère, New Orleans
Cierra Chenier reviews the ways Black beauty glimmers during oppressive times, and how alternative imagery and narratives thrive in defiance of degrading stereotypes in Origins of New Orleans Black Carnival Society: The Story of the Illinois Clubs at The Presbytère, New Orleans.
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.
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.”
