Published Work
The New York Times
Garden & Gun
The Bitter Southerner
ESPN's Andscape (formerly The Undefeated)
Oxford American
Air Mail
Airbnb Magazine
Food & Wine
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Soul Food Cypher enriches lives with hip-hop
Creative partnership between Alliance Theatre, Boys & Girls Clubs pivots
8 Atlanta Playwrights to Watch in 2020
Atlanta Fosters Women’s Voices
2018: 8 young actors to watch in Atlanta
Zanele Muholi pays homage to black women in Spelman exhibit
Poignant plays by Pearl Cleage bring vintage flavor to the present
Ontario Was Here’ reveals social workers’ secret lives
Horizon’s ‘Klook and Vinette’ struggles to find its soul
Blossom, a new digital platform for women of color
‘Maytag Virgin’ delivers strong performances with heart
8 young Atlanta actors to watch
Review: “Miss Bennet” shines brightly at Theatrical Outfit
Play explores racial attitudes, family, in 1960s Mississippi
Looking to tap into your ‘Big Magic?’ Author Elizabeth Gilbert to speak at Unity North
Photographer journeys the Underground Railroad in Atlanta exhibit
Sundance Film Festival sees more from Georgia’s booming industry
Musical adaptation of 1997 movie “Love Jones” coming to the Fox Theatre
New works by 20 female artists mark Spelman Museum’s anniversary
Theater staged in private homes creates a more intimate experience
Terry Burrell’s ‘Ethel’ find humor in the blues
Threshold Festival showcases local playwrights
Bearden paints a broad stroke of black life in America (print only, 11/22/2015)
Art to engage at Starlight Drive-In (print only, 11/15/2015)
Georgia Ensemble fills area’s Shakespeare void (print only, 11/8/2015)
Teatro Aurora appeals to Latino audiences
ARTS ATL
Review: “Jasmine Starr-Kidd” gives science nerds the time of their lives
Review: “The White Chip” dives into addiction with humor and heart
Review: “Sunset Baby” delves into the aftermath of activism trauma
Are arts audiences ready to return? Blank Foundation survey says, “Maybe, kind of?”
Racism claims shutter Serenbe Playhouse; Atlanta theater wonders what comes next
“Atlanta theaters, I need your imagination”: An essay from arts journalist Kelundra Smith
Review: Concept cripples storytelling in “Seize the King” at the Alliance Theatre
Review: True Colors’ “School Girls” is fictional, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true
Q&A: Check your perceptions, says Rob Demery, on Broadway in “A Soldier’s Play”
Eatonton to celebrate native daughter Alice Walker’s 75th birthday on July 13
9/11-inspired “Come From Away” champions the kindness of strangers
Native Gardens tills and uproots neighborly drama
Pearl Cleage’s latest play at the Alliance Theatre examines aging in art
Alliance Theatre Kendeda Competition marks 15 years of world-premiere plays
An Octoroon offers a send-up of racial stereotypes
Q&A: With two plays in Atlanta, playwright Carla Ching stays true to her heritage
Q&A: Rachel Devlin on the girls who desegregated America’s schools
Larry Walker speaks about his life in art
Aida at Atlanta Lyric soars on the voice of India S. Tyree
Pop-Up Magazine producer Tina Antolini talks bringing journalism to life onstage
Bruce Johnson depicts mug shots of Civil Rights leaders of the past
Review: Civil Rights photos at the High convey the fire of resistance, past and present
Topher Payne puts a hilarious spin on modern motherhood in Morningside
Review: “Between Riverside & Crazy” at True Colors is uneven but has meaningful moments
Review: Horizon’s “Blackberry Daze” is a hot, sweet summer treat of a juke joint musical
Preview: With guitar in hand, the beloved Pete the Cat springs to life at Center for Puppetry Arts
Review: “Selma” star Tara Ochs grapples with racism and white privilege in one-woman show
Preview: Mark Kendall takes on the experience of being black in Alliance’s “The Magic Negro,”
Review: Alliance’s poignant “Too Heavy For Your Pocket” delivers a story for then . . . and for now
Preview: Playwright Georgina Escobar breaks down her feminist fantasia “Sweep”
#InHonor at Arnika Dawkins dignifies those slain by police brutality
A conversation with Sonya Clark, who tells stories about coiffured canvases
Review: True Colors’ “Smart People” uses juicy dialogue to evoke race and class
Review: SCAD Fash showcases the wearable whimsy of Carolina Herrera’s designs
Review: In Basquiat’s “Unknown Notebooks,” words yield art
Rain Pryor talks growing up with Jewish mom, iconic father in Fried Chicken and Latkes
Q&A: Clarence Davis on his life in photography; exhibit and lecture at Hammonds House
Review: MODA’s “Inspiring Beauty” makes a political and aesthetic fashion statement
ARTlanta column
American Theatre
Change comes fast, Change comes slow
Christina Anderson Wades Into the History of Swimming Pool Segregation
Culture Shift: How EST Is Becoming the Change They Want to See
Broadway May Be Back, But Who Is It For?
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu: Tramping Her Own Exodus to Joy
A Year After Atlanta Theatre’s Town Hall on Racism, Who’s Keeping Score?
Done With Racism and Sexism, These Black Women Are Doing It for Themselves
Asians Under Attack: A Theatremakers’ Round Table
After Years of Talk, Finally Some Money for Black Artists and Theatres
Tom Key: A Spiritual Connection
How to Solve Design’s Diversity Problem
Black Theatre in the U.S.: Building, Surviving, Thriving
The Kids Are All Right: The Next Generation of Theatre Managers
Role Call: True Colors’ Education Director, Nikki Toombs
Here, there and everywhere: The Alliance Theatre’s season on the road
The Better ‘Angels’ of Our Nature
Southern Female Playwrights, Leaving the Front Porch Behind
Giving Emerging Playwrights a boost with the Kendeda Competition
Blues for an Alabama Sky celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Alliance Theatre
Atlanta Magazine's HOME
Flowers help Atlanta photographer Allen Cooley find beauty in uncertainty
Studio Visit: Adelaide Tai liberates herself and others through art
Tracy Murrell’s collages explore the beauty and grace of Black women around the world
Delicacy and strength coalesce in Atlanta artist Niki Zarrabi’s floral paintings
Atlanta artist Brandon Sadler draws inspiration from American graffiti and Asian art forms
For Suwanee artist Anita Darling, art is a devotion
Atlanta artist Lillian Blades’s three-dimensional “quilts” tell the story of her life
For Eric Mack, nature is both canvas and muse
Paper artist Laura Bell calls attention to vulnerable species
Zipporah Camille Thompson uses textiles to create cosmic connections
How Photoshop—and technology—has influenced Darien Arikoski-Johnson’s ceramics
Flame thrower: Lawrenceville artist Erica Elle uses a blowtorch to create her vibrant paintings
Atlanta Magazine
The 5 things that Atlanta artists need
Alliance Theatre’s world-premiere musical adaption of Trading Places puts women in charge
The world according to comedian Ms. Pat
Southern women in hip-hop are having a moment
Works by folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe contemplate faith, feminism, and freedom
Jericho Brown reflects on winning the Pulitzer Prize and the black poets who came before him
True Colors’ production of School Girls sparks conversation about colorism and pretty privilege
A new exhibition at the Atlanta History Center documents Georgia’s earliest civil rights heroes
2019: Best of Atlanta Arts & Culture
From Yeezus to Nike: Your guide to the High Museum’s Virgil Abloh exhibition
Alice Walker turns 75: How she inspired Tayari Jones and others
TILA Studios exhibition Daisy Chain is a “homecoming” of black women artists
Six OTP amphitheaters worth the trip this summer
TILA Studios exhibition Daisy Chain is a homecoming for Black women artists
The country’s oldest feminist bookstore, Charis, finds a new home at Agnes Scott
Pearl Cleage’s new play is a comical ode to female artists—and activists—young or old
Best of Atlanta 2018: Arts & Culture
High Museum’s latest exhibition, “With Drawn Arms,” speaks to #TakeAKnee and #BlackLivesMatter
In her new book, Chef Carla Hall reclaims soul food: “It’s part of my DNA.”
Walking Dead alum Jayson Warner Smith brings the Tony Award-nominated play Blackbird back to Atlanta
Get thee to the suburbs: Atlanta’s OTP theatre scene is booming
The Daily Show’s Dulce Sloan never thought she’d be a comedian
Fodor's Travel
TDF Stages
Living Intown and Living Northside
Black Masks magazine
Burnaway.org
Review Cool Kicks: “The Rise of Sneaker Culture” at the High Museum
Art Review: Between Cultures: Susanne Wenger at the Carlos Museum
Art Review: The Plurality of Blackness, at Arnika Dawkins
BroadwayWorld.com
Summer Stages: Central New York Critic’s Picks
Charleston Post & Courier
Dramatics Magazine
“Ping Chong: Theatre from the margins” This Q&A with theater artist Ping Chong was the cover story for the May 2013 issue of Dramatics Magazine.
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society Journal
Q&A with Syracuse Stage Artistic Director Timothy Bond about documentary theater
Stone Canoe Journal
“Films highlight the plight of women around the world” Comparative film review of Kirby Dick’s Oscar-nominated documentary The Invisible War and award-winning photographer Walter Astrada’s short film Undesired
Syracuse New Times
“Graffiti Bridge” Feature on the history of street art and its transition into museums, galleries and its place in urban development
“The Nutcracker’s Turning Pointe” preview of Syracuse Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker
“Derby Days Approach” feature about roller derby leagues in Central New York
“Inside Voices” preview about street art exhibit at Syracuse University’s Warehouse Gallery
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