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Michaela Baldwin’s Art of Rupture

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By Re’Dreyona Walker
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Michaela Baldwin, installation view of PROCLIVITY, 2023; mixed media installation. Image courtesy of the artist. Michaela Baldwin described the Greensboro, NC, site of her 2023 work PROCLIVITY as a dilapidated jewelry box. Overhead, broken mirrors caught the light in fragments and rusted box springs hung from the ceiling. An old toilet and sink remained bolted, unmoved, as if the building had simply grown around them.
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In Kyoung Chun: Make Room and Maria Britton: Second Sleep at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston

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By Stephanie Allen
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Installation view, In Kyoung Chun: Make Room and Maria Britton: Second Sleep at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by Rick Rhodes. Image courtesy of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Calls for Artists: July 2026

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Loghaven Artist Residency. Image courtesy of The Aslan Foundation. Wassaic Project 2027 Residency Program Wassaic, New York Deadline: July 1, 2026 The Wassaic Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses art and arts education to foster positive social change. The Wassaic Project nurtures connections between its artists and its neighbors facilitating a mutual broadening of perspectives and respect across economic and cultural boundaries.
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Deciphering the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail, a travelogue

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By Whitney Washington
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Postage Stamp barn quilt in Camden, Alabama. Image courtesy of the Alabama Barn Quilt Trail. Alabama has a rich tradition of craft: the basket weavers of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the Tinglewood tree carvings in Montevallo, and of course the Gee’s Bend Quilters. Quilting is practiced across geographic and racial lines in Alabama. It is even honored across mediums.
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Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Penumbra at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota

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Installation view of Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Penumbra at Sarasota Art Museum, Florida, 2026. Photograph by Ryan Gamma, courtesy Sarasota Art Museum. Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Sola ni de Noche ni de Dia, 2026; hand-dyed fabric, thread, and batting, 57 x 61 1/2 inches. Photograph by Ryan Gamma, courtesy the artist and Nazarian / Curcio. Maria A. Guzmán Capron explores the complexities of identity through her vibrant figurative textiles in a new solo exhibition.
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What Is a Folk School?

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By Robert Grand
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Circle of Community Room chairs, crafted by community members and donated to the John C. Campbell Folk School during the 1920s. Courtesy of John C. Campbell Folk School. The Original Danish Model “One has to face the fact that there is something a little elusive about the Folkehøjskole,” Olive Dame Campbell wrote in the introduction to her 1927 book on the topic—still the most definitive volume of its kind.
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Theora Hamblett: Children’s Games at the University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford

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By Amanda Malloy
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Installation view of Children’s Games at the University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, 2026. Photograph by and courtesy of University of Mississippi Museum, University of Mississippi. Born in 1895 in Paris, Mississippi, Theora Hamblett spent the first half of her life growing up on her family’s chicken farm. After the death of her mother, Hamblett moved to nearby Oxford in 1939, where she worked as a seamstress and opened her home as a boarding house.
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Carlos Nunez and Maria Owen on the Whitney Biennial

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By Carlos Nunez, Maria Owen
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Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2026 (Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8–August 2026). Photograph by Darian DiCanno/BFA.com. © BFA 2026.
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In the Studio with Diana Antohe and Louise Mouton Johnson

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By Sherae Rimpsey
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Louise Mouton Johnson, Church Window, I, 2003, appliquéd and quilted cotton fabric, sequins, beads, 80 x 34 inches. Photograph by and courtesy of the artist. Louise Mouton Johnson and Diana Antohe are New Orleans-based textile artists. Mouton Johnson was born and raised in the city. Antohe was born in Romania; her family relocated to Texas when she was a child. I am interested in where the lines between the work of Louise Mouton Johnson and that of Diana Antohe meet or become more apparent.
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Journey to Shupingagua with Sterling Rook

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By Alexandra Martinez Verified
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Sterling Rook, Shupingagua 1-3, 2026; paper, ink, steel. Photograph by Pedro Wazzan, courtesy of the artist. What do you look for in a crisis? A warning? A way out? A sign that survival is still possible? Along Peru’s Napo River, a child disappeared beneath the water. The raft had already capsized by the time his parents reached the riverbank. Caught in a whirlpool while traveling upriver through the Amazon, the family was thrown into the current in an instant.
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