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Carol Es, Quarters, 2015, oil paint, paper, and fabric on birch panel, 24 in. x 24 in.

Rock and Refuge: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Carol Es
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Caché Owens, Spring Fete, 2019, Collage, Acrylic, Oil Pastel on Canvas, 11 in. x 17 in.

Caché Owens: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Caché Owens
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Zamani, Steps to Understanding, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 140 cm x 140 cm

Still Lifelike: Oil Painting

December 2, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Sourena Zamani
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Tandem: Digital Photography

November 30, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emerald Arguelles
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Devan Horton, Dissolve Me, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 30” x 40”

Penchant: Oil Painting

November 21, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Devan Horton
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Aleksandra Suvorova, Skull, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 160 x 100 cm

Forbidden Garden: Oil Painting

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Aleksandra Suvorova
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Mutations: Mixed Media

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Huaiyi Tsai
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Famous Umobuarie, 1975 II, 2019, Graphite and Charcoal, 29 inches x 25 inches

The Beauty in Us: Graphite and Charcoal

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Famous Umobuarie
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Bergamini, Ouro Preto, 2007, Digital photography, 567 in. x850 in.

Daydreams: Digital Photography

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Guilherme Bergamini

Daydreams is a visual diary made by my wanderings in several Brazilian cities. Without commitment to a predetermined theme, this work is a cut from what I produced from 2005 to 2018 in my simple and routine walks with a camera looking for a photograph […]

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Roger Allan Cleaves, Tiger Lions, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 48” x 60”

The Forget Me Nots: Oil Painting

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Roger Allan Cleaves

I borrow, mix, and assemble motifs from history and contemporary times. The results are abstract figurative creatures whose various elements provide a deeper meaning into the psyche of the […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

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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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Tale of the resistant apple tree

June 6, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Tahar Bekri, translated by Patrick Williamson
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Talyshi Wall Graffiti and other poems

May 30, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Ghazal
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we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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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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Word From the Editor

The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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