You are invited to an artist talk featuring Felandus Thames, Cornelia Stokes, and
Lawrence Burney at The Outpost at The Last Resort Artist Retreat, on Saturday, April 25, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. We hope to see you there!

About the Artist
Felandus Thames (b. 1974, Jackson, MS) is a Yale School of Art MFA graduate currently based in Connecticut. His work has received critical acclaim in Artforum, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic. Thames has exhibited at major institutions including SF MoMA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Crystal Bridges. He is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Prize and was recently selected for the inaugural “Decennial” at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (June 2026).

Cornelia Stokes curatorial practice is based in Pan-Africanism and kinship, focusing on building community through the arts and philosophies of the Black diaspora. Looking to complexify the oversimplification of Blackness within mainstream culture, Stokes invests in opportunities to promote and explore the wide varieties of the Black experience. In 2023, she founded Emblazon Arts to support artists and initiatives that expand how Black life is seen, experienced, and understood. In 2025, Stokes joined The Last Resort Artist Retreat cohort 4 and, shortly thereafter, became the inaugural Assistant Curator of the Art of the African Diaspora at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD).

Lawrence Burney is a writer, editor, critic, and the founder of True Laurels, an independent magazine covering Baltimore’s music and culture scene. His work has appeared in publications such as New York Magazine, GQ, Washington Post and Pitchfork. He has also worked as an editor at The Fader, a staff writer at VICE, and an editor/reporter at The Baltimore Banner. His first book, No Sense in Wishing, a collection of essays, was published in July 2025 via Atria Books. Follow him on Instagram and X @TrueLaurels.

On view from March 14th through May 16, 2026
The Outpost at The Last Resort Artist Retreat (TLRAR)
By appointment only. Please RSVP to rsvptlrar@charmccc.org for viewing.

RSVP to attend the Artist Talk on Saturday April 25th, 6-8PM.

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