Burnaway is excited to announce our new Artistic Advisory Committee, a group composed of artists, writers, and culture workers who offer guidance about the programmatic and 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 rest of the members of our inaugural board this week, and find more information about the AAC at the link in bio. Joining the inaugural Artistic Advisory Committee is Guyanese-born Grace Aneiza Ali (@grace_aneiza_ali), a curator, writer, and professor whose work engages global contemporary art and migration, with a focus on the Caribbean Diaspora. Ali is currently Curator for the Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice at Vanderbilt University and Associate Professor in the Departments of Art and Art History and affiliated faculty in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center at Florida State University (FSU), where she received the University Provost Award for Inclusive Teaching. Prior to joining FSU, she was Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the M.A. Arts Politics program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Read more from Ali’s bio at the link in bio. Joining the Artistic Advisory Committee is Craig Drennen (@craigdrennen), a painter who has had recent solo exhibitions at Brigitte Mulholland gallery in Paris and The Suburban in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been awarded residencies at Macdowell, Yaddo, Two Coats of Paint, and others. He has curated exhibitions at Rockefeller Center in New York City, Greene House Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and the Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, GA. Drennen served as dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, manages THE END Project Space, and teaches at Georgia State University. He was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.