2025
Goat Rock, BULL, Fall 2025
2023
Ray’s Fine Foods, Baltimore Review, Spring 2023
The Bottom, The Airgonaut, February 2023
There and Back Again, Nonfiction Filmmaking for the Screen, ed. Charles Dye, Focal Press [essay]
2022
Up and Down and Back Again, Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, (un)built: Vol:18:1, 2022 [essay]
Window #76, Oxford Magazine, Issue #49
2021
Surprised to See You, South Summit 2021, New Orleans Film Society, New Orleans, LA [essay]
2018
And Light Followed the Flight of Sound, One Day Projects, Williamsburg, Virginia, [available here]
2016
Inspired Georgia, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, [available here]
2014
Oranbeg NET 05: Bastards, Oranbeg Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2013
Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design, Issue 32, New York, New York
Incandescent Magazine, Issue 3, Pine Island Press, Portland, Oregon
Supermoon, Self-Published Edition of 300, Athens, Georgia
2011
Flagpole Magazine, Volume 25, Issue 28, Athens, Georgia
2009
Appendix Magazine, Premier Issue, Milan, Italy
Oxford American Magazine, Issue 65, The Best of the South, Little Rock, Arkansas

2025
Runner Up, Best Documentary Short, Out on Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema (Nominee), Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
2024
Artist-in-Residence, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
2023
Emmy® Award (Southeast), Co-Director, “Crisis of Substance”
IDA Documentary Awards, Best Curated Series Nominee, “Jared Dawson is the Church of Lavonia Elberton,”
Reel South, Season 8, PBS, UNC-TV
2021
Artist-in-Residence, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2020
Early Production Lab Fellow, UnionDocs, New York, NY
2019
Rural Project Fellowship Grant, Indie Grits Labs, Columbia, South Carolina
Reel South SHORT Award, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, Alabama
2018
Artist-in-Residence, The Creatives Project, Atlanta, Georgia (2018-2020)
SDF Research and Development Grant, Southern Documentary Fund, Durham, North Carolina
2017
Idea Capital Research and Development Grant, Idea Capital, Atlanta, Georgia
Artist-in-Residence, AIR Serenbe, Chatahoochee Hill, Georgia
2016
Seed & Spark Award, Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia
Best Documentary Short, Milledgeville Film Festival, Milledgeville, Georgia
2015
On Our Radar, Creative Capital Foundation, New York, New York
Best Documentary Short, Landlocked Film Festival, Iowa City, Iowa
Best Documentary Short, Rome International Film Festival, Rome, Georgia
Curator's Choice Award, Digital Graffiti, Curated by Brett Phares, Alys Beach, Florida
2014
Artist-In-Residence, Wassaic Residency Program, Wassaic, New York
Atlanta Celebrates Photography: Ones to Watch, Mary Stanley Studio, Atlanta, Georgia
Student Technology Grant, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
2013
Artist-In-Residence, Little Brown Mushroom Storytelling Camp, St. Paul, Minnesota
Top 25: Photography, Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art and Design
2012
Artist-In-Residence, Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake, Oregon
Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research and Performance Grant, Athens, Georgia
2011
Juror‘s Award of Merit, 36th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Carla Hanzal, Athens, Georgia

2025
Gina Cavallo, Bodies on Screen: The Power of Performance Video in OCA’s
“(Im)Posibilidades,” Artists of Utah, September 4, 2025
Les Roka, Ogden Contemporary Arts’ (Im)Posibilidades: Performance Art for Video
is Marvelous Sampling of Media Possibilities, The Utah Review, October 2, 2025

2024
Jeremy Redmon, Film on Acclaimed Zora Neale Hurston Biographer to Debut in Atlanta,
‍ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 20,2024

2023
Heather Leighton, Filmmaker Interview: 'Jared Dawson' Creator on Joy,
‍ ‍ REEL SOUTH: Filmmaker Feature, May 7, 2023


2021
Rosalin Bentley, 2020 Reverberates at This Year’s Atlanta Biennial Exhibition,
‍ ‍The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 15, 2021

2018
Andrew Wasserman, Restoring the Archives Building: An Interview with Adam Forrester,
‍ ‍Atlanta Studies, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, October 2, 2018

2017
Lara Wagner, A Behind the Scenes Look at the Newest Studio Artists of
The Creatives Project, Gather Good, December 1, 2017
Andrew Alexander, Artist-Funded Grants Seed Creative Ideas in 2017,
‍ ‍Atlanta Journal-Constitution,  January 6, 2017

2016
Catherine Rush, Director Adam Forrester Digs Into Stigmatized Southern Delicacy in
'Eat White Dirt', ArtsATL, April 1, 2016

2015
Paul Edwards, Dishing the Dirt, Smith Journal, Volume 16, pp. 40-42, September 2015

2014
Jeff Rich, EYES ON THE SOUTH: Adam Forrester, Oxford American Magazine, September 29, 2014
Christopher Kimball, Eating White Dirt: Investigation of the World's Strangest Food Obsession,
‍ ‍‍ ‍PRX: America's Test Kitchen, Boston, MA, August 16, 2014
Emelyn Rude, The American South is Still Eating White Dirt, VICE Magazine: Munchies, July 23, 2014
Linda Chen, The Old and Mysterious Practice of Eating Dirt, Revealed,NPR: The Salt, April 2, 2014
Chuck Reece, The Down & Dirty: Making Peace with the Age-Old Practice of
Eating White Dirt, The Bitter Southerner, February 25, 2014
Jonathan D. Marcus, FAU Exhibit Spotlights Contemporary Art,Sun Sentinel, February 7, 2014
Jenna Garrett, Fascinating Documentary Investigates the Strange Practice of Southerners who
'Eat White Dirt', Feature Shoot, January 16, 2014

2013
Jim Reed, Favourite Photobooks of 2013: A Book Man's Book List, GUP Magazine,December 5, 2013
Jesse Veverka, Focus on Filmmakers: Adam Forrester, The Clyde Fitch Report, September 23, 2013
Katy Ganaway, The Talk of Troy, WTSU Troy Public Radio, Montgomery, AL, September 6, 2013
Cynthia Adams, A PHENIX RISING: The Beautiful Polarity of Adam Forrester's Works,
‍ ‍The Graduate School Magazine, Summer 2013, pp. 10-15

2025
Excerpt from “Here in Watauga,” Lostintheletters, Atlanta, GA [reading]
Moving Pixels, Ancient Myths, and Contemporary Relics,” Artist Lecture, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

2021
Southern Identity, Place, and Authorship Panel Discussion for South Summit 2021, New Orleans Film Society, New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Talks | Virtual Remains, Artist Talk with Artemus Jenkins Moderated by TK Smith, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

2020
Visiting Artist, Western Michigan University, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan

2018
Artist Talk, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama

2017
Curator Lecture, Durango Arts Center, Durango, Colorado
Visiting Artist, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Art and Art History, Birmingham, Alabama

2016
Panelist, Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama

2015
Artist Lecture, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Artist Presentation, Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization (HERO), Greensboro, Alabama
Artist Presentation, Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia

2014
Visiting Artist, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

2013
Artist Presentation, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Visiting Artist, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia
Visiting Artist, DC3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada
Artist Lecture, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

2012
Visiting Artist, Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake, Oregon

2025 MFA, Creative Writing, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
2014   Werner Herzog Rogue Film School, Los Angeles, California
2013   MFA, Photography & Expanded Media, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
2006 BSEd, Art Education, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Pike Historic Preservation Society, Pike County, Georgia