Carolina Potions
To close out the 2025 Mood Ring cycle, Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson present Carolina Potions, an interactive potion recipe game that pulls together hand-painted ingredients from the South as an ode to Durham, North Carolina.
North Carolina (9)
Making Connections: Art, Place, and Relationships at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
Justin Chance reviews Making Connections, an exhibition showcasing the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s permanent collection and highlighting the contributions of Greensboro community members in shaping the museum.
Inside the Chop Shop: An Interview with Steven Cozart and Roymieco Carter
Colony Little interviews Steven Cozart and Roymieco Carter about The Chop Shop, a collective of Black and Brown male artists who joined forces virtually in 2020 to share their work and engage in meaningful conversations.
Outside the Lines at Blue Spiral 1, Asheville
Merin McDivitt reviews Asheville’s Blue Spiral 1’s Outside the Lines, where artists adopt an irreverent approach to surfaces, creating overlapping layers of meaning through unexpected textures and lines, as well as revelations of color and contour.
We Belong Here at the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington
Sommer Browning reviews the expansiveness of We Belong Here: The Gutierrez Collection at the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington.
Topher Lineberry’s Giant-Sized Annual at Lump Gallery, Raleigh
Winston-Salem based writer Matt Garite reviews Topher Lineberry’s Giant-Sized Annual, a two-part exhibition about memory as practice: a way of reassembling what has been discarded or forgotten into new visions of the possible.
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.
Ruth Asawa at Black Mountain College
In June’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Colony Little examines how Black Mountain College catalyzed Ruth Asawa’s artistic career and arts education within San Francisco public schools.
The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Colony Little reviews North Carolina Museum of Art’s presentation of Ekow Eshun’s The Time is Always Now, bringing together 23 African diasporic artists who render Black subjectivity, identity, and interiority while subverting notions of the gaze.
