How can an image suggest and subvert order? How can abstraction spur an experience of free association? What are the physical and psychological effects of curated space and knowledge? Does a body have a psychological depository that safeguards imagination? How do we recuperate this depository? These screen prints started as […]
Kept Out/Kept InNew Exhibits Coming to the Evergreen Campus
By Ruby Love The 2016 winter quarter marks the start of Kept Out/Kept In, an amazing series of exhibits and events coming to the Evergreen campus. Kept Out/Kept In, as the title suggests, deals with spaces of privilege and spaces of confinement. Addressing social and economic inequality, complexities of identity, […]
{Re}Discovering EvergreenWho Knew There Were Rare Books Here?
By Jules Prosser Dear readers, have you ever stepped into the Rare Books Collection? Do you know what it is? Well, it’s a room in the Library full of coolest, oldest, most mind-bending books you’ve never seen or heard of before before. Were you even aware that our humble institution […]
An interview with Taylor Dow
By: Amber Hello! Would you like to introduce yourself? I’m taylor dow! I graduated from evergreen in the summer of 2014. I make comics and illustrations. At evergreen I studied creative writing and fine art. Do you wanna talk a little bit about how your Evergreen education gave […]
Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art 1977-2015 at the Museum of Northwest Art
By Katherine Bussey At the opening for “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art 1977-2015”, spectators shared heat and energy, engaging between objects of art and music while celebrating decades of dynamic creativity. A new generation of artists are also being celebrated as they break ground by confronting obsolete social […]
Mural Unveiled in Honor of Leonard Peltier
By Chloe Marina Manchester On October 12, during Olympia’s inaugural Indigenous People’s Day celebration, Chauncey Peltier, Leonard Peltier’s oldest son, and Ira Coyne, unveiled a mural at the Artesian Well in honor of Leonard Peltier. The mural itself is a replica of an original painting by Leonard Peltier called Stalking, […]
Gallery HighlightsFall Arts Walk
By Jules Prosser Arts Walk weekend is one of the few times Olympia feels like a real city. One ventures downtown to find the streets awash with people, men selling big sticks on the sidewalk, and musicians performing in what could be mistaken for Pearl Jam cover bands. The few […]
ARTIST INTERVIEW: Patrick Semple
By Ruby Love Patrick Semple is an artist working primarily with oils on canvas, pulling from the natural environments around him to create works that fuse memory, emotion, and place. While Patrick Semple’s interest in art is not new, his interest in painting-specifically oil painting-is a fairly recent development. Inspired […]
Joel SkavdahlArtist Statement
In second grade my friend John would give drawing lessons and I guess this was when I first became interested in art. I really looked up to him and initially tried to draw like him but soon enough I was doing my own thing. I’ve been concentrating on drawing ever […]
Community Organizes to Save Evergreen Gallery from Closure Art Gallery Slated to be Closed Due to Budget Cuts
By Phoebe Celeste Thomas A change is in the works for Evergreen’s art facilities—the elimination of the only professional art gallery on campus, the Evergreen Gallery. The state budget has discontinued funding the gallery, leaving the gallery posed to close after the 2014-2015 academic year. The gallery, which has been a […]
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