Burnaway is excited to announce our new Artistic Advisory Committee, a group composed of artists, writers, and culture workers who offer counsel on the artistic direction of Burnaway in order to support our mission of developing and connecting creative communities in the American South and Caribbean. Follow along as we announce the members of our inaugural board this week, and find more information about the AAC at the link in bio. Joining the Artistic Advisory Committee is Houston-based Gabriel Martinez (@gabrielmartinezartist). Gabriel Martinez was born near an atomic blast crater in the New Mexico desert. He graduated with an MFA from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Museum of Fine Arts Core Fellow and artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses. He is the director of Alabama Song, an experimental arts space in Houston, founded in 2012. Martinez was a 2022 Olmsted Fellow at MacDowell and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant and a Robert Rauschenberg SEED Grant. His work has been exhibited at the Ismaili Center, Blaffer Art Museum, Artpace, the Station Museum, and the Houston Museum of African American Culture. — Image courtesy Gabriel Martinez. Joining the Artistic Advisory Committee is curator and director Elisabeth Sherman (@elisabethfsherman). Sherman is the Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York. Previously, she was Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Prior to ICP, she was a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she organized and co-organized many critically acclaimed exhibitions. — Image courtesy Elisabeth Sherman.