Calls for Artists: September 2026
Our monthly round up of opportunities include residencies in Georgia, Virginia, and Florida, a Princeton-based fellowship, and a juried exhibition in Athens.
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Announcing Open Book, Burnaway’s new book club
Burnaway is excited to announce Open Book, our first editorial book club! Held in-person and virtually, Open Book is a literary program for curious readers who are interested in engaging with stories touching on both art and our coverage region of the South and Caribbean.
Calls for Artists: August 2026
Our monthly round up of opportunities includes juried exhibitions, project grants, and awards across the South, as well as an online art criticism prize.
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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.
Calls for Artists: July 2026
Our monthly round up of opportunities includes juried exhibitions, a memorial grant program in Little Rock, Arkansas, and artist residencies in Tennessee.
What Is a Folk School?
For Burnaway’s SCHOOLHOUSE theme, Robert Alan Grand discusses the history and future of the folk school, touching on the influential, democratic John C. Campbell and Highlander Folk Schools.
Carlos Nuñez and Maria Owen on the Whitney Biennial
Carlos Nuñez and Maria Owen reflect on the 2026 Whitney Biennial, discussing its aesthetics and global-regional connectivity alongside featured works by Southern and Caribbean artists.
Calls for Artists: June 2026
Our monthly round up of opportunities includes juried exhibitions, a residency program for women photographers in Miami, Florida, and a public art residency in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The Summer I Lay Dying
In our inaugural STORM SIGNAL theme release, Jasmine Amussen discusses The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s hallucinatory, yet Southern Gothic, qualities, and compares the hit show to William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying.
