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A Show at the National Gallery Highlights the Role of Photography in the Black Arts Movement. ARTnews, November 20, 2025

Uman’s kaleidoscopic journeys. Art|Basel, November 13, 2025

Beneath the Surface: Artist Michele Yellin. WALTER Magazine, October 1, 2025

Sculptural Symbols of Power in the Kingdoms of Benin and Dahomey. Curationist, September, 2025

Photographic Reflections On Memory, Food, and Home In Two Tender Local Exhibitions. Indy Week, September 16, 2025.

Rays of Light: Artist Anna Payne Previtte. WALTER Magazine, September 1, 2025.

Inside the Chop Shop: An Interview with Steven Cozart and Roymieco Carter. Burnaway, August 26, 2025

Anonymous: The Fourth Sister. Burnaway, August 11, 2025

André Leon Gray Closes Show at Artspace With a Powerfully Prescient Coda. INDY Week, June 26, 2025

Through Canvas & Camera: Stuart and Robert Dance – WALTER Magazine, June 19, 2025

Ruth Asawa at Black Mountain College. Burnaway x Oxford American, June 11, 2025

The Decoder: Artist and Educator Steven Cozart – WALTER Magazine, June 1, 2025

The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Burnaway, May 14, 2025.

In Detroit, Legacy Russell bridges Black art history and digital art. Art|Basel, April 30, 2025

Flower Power: Julia Einstein’s Cheerful Botanical Paintings – WALTER Magazine, April 24, 2025

At Home with Stone: Artist Matt Byrd – WALTER Magazine, March 1, 2025

Who Was Alice Coltrane? A New Exhibition Honors an Icon. ARTnews, February 7, 2025.

Kindred Spirits: Aliyah Bonnette’s Unexpected Quilt Work – WALTER Magazine, February 1, 2025

Wit & Whimsy: Artist Jennifer Clifton – WALTER Magazine, January 1, 2025

Catalyzing Creativity: The Grid Project Nurture Emerging Artists – WALTER Magazine, December 30, 2024

Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham. Burnaway, December 16, 2024

Art, Ancestry, and Activism:Andrea Chung Confronts Colonial Ghosts with Sugar, Beads, and Family Photographs at MOCA North Miami. Modern Luxury, Art Basel Miami Beach, December 1, 2024

Portia Munson’s Bound Angel lands in Art Basel Miami Beach. Art|Basel, November 4, 2024

A Layered Approach from Martha Thorn – WALTER Magazine, November 1, 2024

Tate Modern Reprises Its Groundbreaking Zanele Muholi Survey. ARTnews, November 1, 2024.

Street Meets Sweet-Raleigh gets weird in a popup fashion show featuring local talent that supports artists in Western North Carolina. Walter Magazine, October 24, 2024.

Siren Song: Artist Holly Fischer – Walter Magazine, October 1, 2024

A Visual Dispatch – Southern Cultures, Summer Issue, September, 2024

Alia El-Bermani’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Walter Magazine, August 1, 2024

The Harriet Jacobs Project Resurrects the Story of a Young Black Woman Who Escaped Slavery and Became an Icon of North Carolina. ARTnews, July 25, 2024

Peel Back the Layers, Decipher the Messages: Considering Three Fiber Exhibitions in North Carolina. Burnaway, July 9, 2024

Off Kilter with Artist Jen Matthews – Walter Magazine, July 1, 2024

InterDisciplinary: Isabel Lu’s Expressive Paintings – Walter Magazine, June 1, 2024

In Basel, celebrating the multiplicity of Blackness. Art Basel, May 24, 2024

Sketching Stories: Artist Kristen Solecki’s Visual Narratives – Walter Magazine, May 1, 2024

Painting with Purpose: Meet Georgia Tardy – Walter Magazine, May 1, 2024

Josephine Baker, Negritude, and the Art World: Revisiting the Dancer’s Life and Legacy. ARTnews, April 8, 2024

Hat by Hat: Meet Katie Allen of Lifted Millinery. Walter Magazine, April 1, 2024

Museum Directors Trevor Schoonmaker and Franklin Sirmans on How the Early-Aughts New York Art Scene Shaped Them. Cultured Magazine, Feb/March, 2024.

Art + Soul: Los Angeles portrait photographer Shayan Asgharnia’s extraordinary images capture the personalities of pets and wild creatures. Southpark Magazine, March 1, 2024.

Antiques & Appraisals: When the Antiques Roadshow Came to Town. Walter Magazine, March 1, 2024

Memory Keeper: Sculptor Oami Powers. Walter Magazine, March 1, 2024

Pattern Play: Assemblage Artist Davis Choun. Walter Magazine, March 1, 2024

Pressed With Care: Custom Stationer Decree Company. Walter Magazine, February 1, 2024

Fantastical Forms: Tonya Solley Thornton’s Lively Sculptures. Walter Magazine, January 1, 2024.

Clay Inspiration: Marina Bosetti’s Intricate Tile Work. Walter Magazine January 1, 2024.

Medusa, myth, and transformation: Kandis Williams’s artistic odyssey. Art|Basel, November 20, 2023.

A Mona Lisa made of seeds: the quirky craft of crop art. The Guardian, October 20, 2023.

Giving Garden: Preston Montague’s Welcoming Landscape. Walter Magazine, October 1, 2023

Dream Keeper, The Ella West Gallery. Walter Magazine, September 5, 2023

Nail Yeah! Crystal Clark’s Niche Design Medium. Walter Magazine, August 1, 2023

Building Faith in the Future Part 2: Five Women of the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles. ARTnews, July 11, 2023

Building Faith in the Future Part I: The Rise of the Black Arts Movement in California. ARTnews, July 4, 2023

A Welcome Home in Liberation Station. Walter Magazine, June 19, 2023.

Hidden Treasures: WALTER goes behind the scenes as PBS’s ANTIQUES ROADSHOW stops at the NCMA in Raleigh to film its 28th season. Walter Magazine, May 18, 2023

The (Afro) Future is Female: Ruth E. Carter at the NCMA. Walter Magazine, May 18, 2023

Home Economics: Precious Lovell’s Ex-Domestication, Walter Magazine, April 13, 2023

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