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The Beautiful Curve: Oil Paintings

May 29, 2018/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Ansley Adams
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Patterns, Cycles, and Change: Oil Paintings

May 29, 2018/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Brian Cirmo
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The Complete Madness of Armstrong: Collage

November 25, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Agoreyo Oke Meidevo Armstrong
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Invitation to View: The Earth Welcomes Us All: Acrylic Paintings

November 24, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Sandy Coomer
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Earthly Visions: Watercolor

November 23, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Liz Darling
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Vietnamese Village Through the Eyes of a Young Man: Mixed Media

November 22, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Nhat Anh Nguyen Dinh
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Pendulum of Identity: Mixed Media

November 21, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Elham Hajesmaeili
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Super Ply: Mixed Media

November 20, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Barbara Martin
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Destruction: Collage

November 19, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Fariba Rahnavard
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Fire, Water, Ice and Snow: Oil Paintings

November 16, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Jennifer Walton
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Fringe Quarter: Photography

November 15, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Jay Waters
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SCHOOL LUNCH: Oil Paintings

November 14, 2017/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt
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Mythic City: Oil Paintings

May 21, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by James Deeb
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The Garden Collection: Acrylic Paintings

May 20, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Christian Gabriel
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Spatial Awareness: Digital Collages

May 19, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by hueydotnewton
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Faceted Phrases Series: Acrylic Paintings

May 17, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Stacey Messier
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The Things We Can’t Say: Mixed Media

May 15, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Mellissa Redman
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The Pathetic Start of It All: Mixed Media

May 14, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Doug Smock
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Artist’s Expedition: Mixed Media

November 25, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Eghosa Raymond Akenbor
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May Be I Was a Bottle: Mixed Media

November 24, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Elena Berriolo
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A Distant Voice in the Darkness: Photography

November 23, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Camden Hardy
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After Eagle Drawings: Ink Drawings

November 22, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Deanna Lee
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The Exploration Series: Multi Media & Oil Paintings

November 21, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Grace Lynne
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New Views of the World: Intaglio Prints

November 20, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Rachel Singel
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Series of Experimental Collections: Acrylic Paintings

November 18, 2016/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Lawani Sunday
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The Sewing Machine’s Text: Mixed Media

May 8, 2016/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2016 / Mixed Media by Elena Berriolo
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Barn Owl Conté Crayon Drawings

May 7, 2016/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Ellen Halloran
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Strange Tales from Strange Places: Mixed Media

May 5, 2016/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Rob Kirbyson
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Obsession and Idolization: Mixed Media

May 4, 2016/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Dominika Koziak
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At Least I Have You to Remember Me: Acrylic Paintings

May 3, 2016/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Jennifer Mondfrans
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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Diagnosis: Persisted or Silent Inheritance

November 7, 2025/in Blog / Paula Williamson
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The Queer Ultimatum Made Me Give My Own Ultimatum

September 26, 2025/in Blog / Lex Garcia
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The Family Eulogist

September 5, 2025/in Blog / Claudia Vaughan
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

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The Lilac and The Housefly: A Tale of Tortured Romanticism

October 24, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Nikki Mae Howard
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Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

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Those from sadness – Found Poem

November 14, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Yirui Pan
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My Town

October 31, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Shoshauna Shy
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Acts of Attention: An Abecedarian

October 17, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Rhienna Guedry
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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The state of the world breaks my heart every day. Broken hearted, I stay online. I can’t log off. Because my career and schooling are all done remotely, I tend to struggle with boundaries regarding screen time, with knowing when to break away.

Like many of you, I have been spilling my guts online to the world because the guts of the world keep spilling. None of it is pretty. But it’s one of the things that, having searched for basically my entire life, I found that tempers the chaos that lives rent free inside my head.

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