By Ruby Love When did you start making art? I don’t even know, I think off and on since I was pretty little… Just fresh out of the womb, makin’ art. Yeah that was the first thing I did was paint my mom’s tummy. With her own blood…with our joint […]
Cover Artists Taylor Sikorski & Blaine Ewig
By Felix Chrome Blaine Ewig is a poet and photographer. An Evergreen graduate, she used to work at the Cooper Point Journal as our Arts & Culture Editor, and you can find her photographs in many issues of the CPJ. Taylor Sikorski, also an Evergreen Alum, is a comedian, videographer, […]
Ian Hazard-BillCover Artist
By Ruby Love Originally from San Francisco, Ian Hazard-Bill is an artist working in ceramics, creating beautifully unique functional pottery. I spoke with Hazard-Bill about his process, inspirations, and the challenges of balancing aesthetics and function. Hazard-Bill has been working with clay on and off for the past eight years, […]
Anne McGowanArtist Statement
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 […]
Jesse WiedemanArtist Interview
By Ruby Love Jesse Wiedeman is an illustrator, painter, and printmaker whose incredibly emotive work focuses on the expressive energy of human faces, as it plays with light and shadow in ways reminiscent of graphic novel illustration and film noir. Jesse is a lifelong Washington resident (spending the last 10 […]
Interview: Nikki McClure
By Issac Scott How did you decide you wanted to be an artist? I want to say something like, “Because you get to sleep in” [laughs]. But when I was little I always wanted to be an artist, but it never really seemed possible, just because I didn’t know people […]
Rosemary Engstrom Artist Statement
I am composing a hole in this saucy donut and slapping you with it. I am coughing up your spineless strawberry and licking it so sweetly. I am drizzling a moment through your male gaze. I am your fish and you are my delicate lips. I am carving you to […]
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 […]
Artist Interview:
Zoe Kolln
By Issac Scott This week, our cover features art by Zoe Kolln, an Evergreen student involved in the Evergreen Art Gallery, the Bike Shop, and the Tacoma Art Museum. This year, Kolln has spearheaded the campaign to save the Evergreen Art Gallery from closure due to budget cuts. I asked […]
Artist Statement: Patrick Semple
These two pieces, “Moonbeam Mirror Light,” and “Deep Sleep” are from a series I’ve been working on, using oil pastel on newspaper. Initially, I was bored in the kitchen one morning so I grabbed this print of The Stranger and went to town on someone’s face with pastel; it has […]
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