Call for Artists: October 2025
Our monthly round up of opportunities includes the PhotoWork Junior Fellowship, a semester-long residency program in Little Rock, and an artist residency in the Dominican Republic.
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![Unknown (American). [Studio Portrait], 1940s – 50s. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth- Century Photography Fund, 2015 (2015.330). Photograph by and courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.](https://s1.burnaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1.-Unknown-American.-Studio-Portrait-1940s–50s-1-540x529.jpg)
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Justin Chance reviews the ties to dandyism in the South and Caribbean as seen in Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Calls for Artists: September 2025
Our monthly round up of opportunities includes an invitation to submit small works for an upcoming show in Sarasota, a call to create artwork for a multicultural senior center in Florida, and the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
Residencies | A Fertile Zone: Artist Residencies Across the Southeast
On a drive down to the the tip of Florida, Carolina Porras Monroy and and Alicia Toldi of Piney Wood Atlas talk about the spirit of Southern artist residencies, born from the DIY culture of rural environments and sustained by communities on the front lines of climate change and political threat.
2026 Mood Ring Open Call
Burnaway welcomes submissions from Southern/Caribbean-based artists, designers, and researchers for the next cycle of our artist column, Mood Ring!
Anonymous: The Fourth Sister
In our next GHOST theme feature, Colony Little details the process of remembering and re-remembering in The Wilde Woman of Aiken, a photograph taken in South Carolina.
Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay
In August’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Katie Jane Fernelius dives into how Louisianans are organizing to transform the stores their communities rely on.
Calls for Artists: August 2025
Our monthly round up of opportunities includes a $50k fellowship and artist grants for artists based in North Carolina, a granting program for Tennessee artists, and live-work studio residencies in Texas.
Call for Artists: July 2025
Our monthly round of opportunities includes a resident artist program for craft artists in Penland, a residency in Knoxville, and an open call for installation-based solo exhibitions in Miami,
