Isabella Marie Garcia

Jan 15, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Burnaway and the Oxford American are thrilled to announce a year-long partnership. This collaboration seems fitting as the two publications share an investment in the American South. Burnaway is an online art magazine that celebrates art from the South and the Caribbean. The Oxford American is a nonprofit arts and media organization that exists to explore the complexity and vitality of the South through exceptional writing, music, and visual art.

Jan 11, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Life—at least in my experience—weaves itself in a comical, cyclical way. ADVERTISEMENTI wrote this line a year ago after attending School of the Alternative (SotA), an unconventional art school / residency / summer camp. According to the mission statement, SotA is “a learning space that is equitable and caring and radical in response to a world that is not.”1 Every May, artists learn, work, and live in Black Mountain, North Carolina, on the historic first site of Black Mountain College (BMC).

Jan 1, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Open Call for RP Funding Facade Enhancement Wildlife Mural ProjectLakeland, FloridaDeadline: January 1, 2025ADVERTISEMENTThe Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation and City of Lakeland Community Redevelopment Agency is accepting qualifications from artists for a public art opportunity as part of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundations mural campaign.

Dec 22, 2024 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

For Chechi Udumah, the surreal is the new real. In her bedroom studio in Atlanta, Georgia, Udumah creates layered, dreamlike pieces, utilizing surrealism to explore the relationship between the physical self and the invisible, subconscious self that she believes exists in everyone. I spoke with Udumah about authenticity, her layered creative process, and how there’s more to our reality than meets the eye.

Dec 19, 2024 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Whatever it is I am saying, I alwaysNeed a leaf or a flower, if not anEntire field. As for sky, I am wildlyIn love with each day’s inventions, cool blueOr cat gray or fullOf the ships of clouds, I simply can’tSay whatever it is I am saying withoutAt least one skyful. That leaves water, aCreek or a well, river or ocean, it has to beThere. For the heart to be there. For the penTo be poised. For the idea to come.