Topher Lineberry profiles belonging to place, an exhibition looking at the creative community and artistic legacy of the influential Black feminist writer, activist, and cultural critic bell hooks at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone.
Merin McDivitt highlights one western North Carolina exhibition that’s a testament to storm recovery while showcasing weaving as a symbol of resilience, connection, toughness, and tenderness in Holding Together: Cloth, Material & Making at Madison County Arts Council, Marshall.
Burnaway takes a close look at Rooted in Memory: The Gullah Geechee Vision of Jonathan Green at Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington.
For Burnaway’s June Mood Ring, huiyin zhou 徽音 presents From South to South 从南方到南方, a love letter to the South(s), from the 回南天 weather in Guangdong, China to the summer rains of North Carolina.
Merin McDivitt visits the studio of Asheville-based artist Casey Engel whose ceramic, fiber, and paper works resemble artifacts from an extraterrestrial world.
Jackson Markovic examines cultural difference and depictions of archetypal Southern art in the 2005 film Junebug.
Samantha Oleschuk reviews Dyani White Hawk’s LISTEN, an eight-channel video installation that asks a deceptively simple question: “How many languages can you identify by sound?”
Burnaway takes a close look at Silvia Heyden: Weaving Notes & Nature at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham.
Robert Alan Grand visits the Asheville studio of painter Harley Burns to discuss their paintings that speak to the experience of being trans and gender nonconforming in the South, and celebrating the importance of living authentically.
