Visual Arts

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Literary Arts, Fine Art, Street Art, Film

Competition Finalists

AU alum Ismah Khan tackles tough topics in her short film ‘Disturbed’ by Olivia Kozlevcar

This article was a finalist and winner of the 2021 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to learn more about the competition. “Disturbed,” a...
Competition Finalists

Sometimes stupid cool shit is all that matters by Sarah Watson

Content Warning: This article references self-harm and eating disorders.   This article is a finalist in the 2021 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to...
Competition Finalists

Bridgerton proves that color-conscious casting alone is not good enough by Kulsum Gulamhusein

This article is a finalist in the 2021 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to learn more about the competition. When I first...
Competition Finalists

C’mon C’mon is a heart-wrenching portrayal of the fleeting nature of childhood by Thais Carron

This article is a finalist in the 2021 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to learn more about the competition. By Thais Carrion  Director...
Competition Finalists

Local Artists Beautify by Hannah Shows

This article was a finalist in the 2020 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to learn more about the competition. Two local artists decorated...
In Their Own Words

Remembering Those Who Lived These Lives by Joe Baur

I’m in Bardejov, Slovakia with my camera, looking for a link to my past. Photography has never been my primary trade, but rather a...
In Their Own Words

Layering it on in Napa California by Josh Stein

by Josh Stein Space in Napa, California is quite dear, so I have always worked in a small corner of my bedroom. While it’s a...
In Their Own Words

Making Maps for an Unknowable but Improvable Present by Karey Kessler

by Karey Kessler I am incredibly fortunate to have an art studio I can escape to—especially during these pandemic days when my husband and two...
In Their Own Words

Water Stones by Lea Craigie-Marshall

A young girl, exploring what, to her, are the wilds of the land.  Hands and feet in the freezing waters, pulling striated rocks and...
In Their Own Words

Badass Creative by Cara Peterson

I started making art a year and a half ago because I felt a void of creative expression in my life. I was working...
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Poetry

Two Poems by Jim Smith

A Heart-Shaped Amulet Gazing upon the houses and fields of my kingdomI can see my grandmother outside a cottage –around her neck a heart-shaped amulet.Behind...
Poetry

Three Poems by Richard Peabody

How Soon Is Now? Christmassomewhere in Dixie a young mothernurses her baby listening to anythingbut The Smiths while geekstry to figure out her nameher location Students shotthe footage yet thered hat that...
Poetry

Two Poems by Patric Pepper

Fenwick Island I wish you were here,for you would understandhow the confident starscan move this nightto companionable pity,unwholesome as it is,how the imperishable seamasquerades its...