Visual Art

Visual Artist: Pilar Mehlis

Chrysaor’s Spoils Altar Eres La Ronda Xanthan Investigation 2 Horns of Plenty Pilar Mehlis was born in Manhattan, NYC. She grew up in La Paz, Bolivia until, at the age of twelve, her family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada. There she lived and attended junior High School. She had her first painting lessons in...
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Everyday Whimsy

Visual Art Heather Evans Smith

I want my photographs to tell stories. And I want stories that come from moments of life, like a still from an old movie. Movement and pain and the simple joys of being alive are frozen in time.
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Weird Acrylics

Visual Art Fabio Sassi

Sassi makes his acrylics using both positive and negative homemade stencils along with found tiny objects like nuts, bolts, rings, clips, circlips, washers, cotter pins, etc. Sometimes he starts from a title inspired by a word game or a weird assonance.
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Observed and invented color

Visual Art Meredith Steele

She moves color around the surface and plops it quickly into positive and negative spaces. Edges are often repainted to keep them bold and contrasting. There is a constant search for dynamic compositions, active surfaces, and intense color combinations.
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Complex Relationships

Visual Art Erik Pennebaker

He travels extensively and says that for him, photography is a way of organizing and making meaning of diverse memories and experiences...
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Everyday Experiences

Featured Art Emily Stokes

The linocuts featured here draw inspiration from indulgent holiday party spreads, seasonal rituals, and visits to regional tourist meccas. Each print begins as a series of sketches, some drawn from observation, some from pictures, and some from imagination.
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God of Ants

Nonfiction Ben Wilkins

God of Ants is a comic that speculates about very small creatures and their much larger, perhaps spiritual, implications. It dares to ask that eternal question no one has thought to ask: Which is better - ants or squirrels?
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Sketches

Visual Art Jennifer Stone

Drawings become quiet tributes to the calculated work required in the cultivation of land, the plodding of the deepest shadow as it creeps across a forest bed, and the startling presence of the brightest light as it cuts through a bank of trees...
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