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BURNAWAY is incredibly excited to announce our first writers residency program. The residency is a four-day residency program that is designed to bring in art critics from around the region to promote increased conversations between arts communities in the southeast. We are honored to have Cameron Shaw, Executive Director of Pelican Bomb, from New Orleans as our first critic-in-residence June 26th to 29th. Cameron is the Executive Director of Pelican Bomb, a nonprofit organization launched in 2011 dedicated to increasing New Orleans’ cultural capital and sustainability by cultivating multiple platforms for contemporary art discourse, engagement, and education. She is the Founding Editor of its principal program, pelicanbomb.com, an online publication of arts writing and criticism in the region, and Co-Founder of its community supported arts program, THE DROP. Originally from Los Angeles, Cameron has called New Orleans home since 2010. Her own writing frequently engages with the legacy of West Coast art practices since 1960, especially as they relate to dialogues on feminism and multiculturalism. She was the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2009 and graduated from Yale University with a BA in the history of art in 2004. Join us Thursday, June 27th at 7pm at Whitespace for a conversation between Cameron and BURNAWAY's Kristin Juarez. Kristin is a curator, writer, and working on her PhD in Atlanta, GA. She gravitates towards art projects and spaces that experiment with public as social, moving images, and attempts at visualizing the unknowable. Kristin founded BURNAWAY's column, The Fringe, which focused on creating connections between Atlanta and the art world at large.