Tooling Glamor: Rappers, Fashion, and Perception
Sidney Pettice dissects the tradition of dazzle camouflage through the lens of black masculinity and rap fashion in this Camouflage theme feature.
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An Account, An Encounter
For Burnaway’s Camouflage theme series, BA’s Interim Editor Courtney McClellan recounts Thew Smoak’s Cruising Theory performance through the North Carolina woods.
An Invitation: Ancestral Mapping
Atlanta-based artist Kelly Taylor Mitchell presents a procession of memory via her textile-based work in this Camouflage feature.
Joiri Minaya’s Pattern Making
“Place is important to my work, coming from a place that is determined in other people’s imagination,” said Joiri Minaya, a multidisciplinary artist from the Dominican Republic. Minaya’s work engages with Camouflage, one of Burnaway’s 2023 themes.
In Miami, Oranges Grow on Prime Real Estate
On this e-spooky Halloween, Francess Archer Dunbar speaks on the iconic citrus tag of Miami-based artist Atomik in this Camouflage feature.
How a Hollywood Invasion Turned the South’s Capital into the Neutral American City
For our Camouflage theme series, Claire E. Dempster touches on how Hollywood transformed Atlanta into a neutral cinematic backdrop.
Unworded bird, don’t come near my window
In the spirit of our Camouflage theme series, Laurel V. McLaughlin presents the work of Mel Chin in conversation with the language of birds.
The Pearl Imagery: In Conversation with Victoria Dugger
For our Camouflage series, Leia Genis speaks with Victoria Dugger on the push and pull grotesque gaze directed towards and enacted by Black, disabled bodies.
Luis Gabriel Sanabria’s Vejigantes Celebrate Puerto Rico’s Queer Ecologies
As part of our Camouflage series, Alexandra Martinez details the costumed intricacies of Luis Gabriel Sanabria’s Vejigantes in celebration of Puerto Rico’s queer landscape.
