Features
Color Meditations – A Reliquary
By Sue Fox Times are tough. Everything seems difficult and downright frustrating…politics, the environment, social media, traffic. The constant push to go faster, […]
What Can Never Be
By Raph Cornford You are not the institution you represent/attend/promote. You never will be. At best you have compromised with a failing system to […]
Dependencia y Revolución
By Maria McDowell My mother had just turned 15 when she left her family in Leon, Nicaragua, and boarded a Chicago-bound plane for […]
Love Letters I Write to My Self as Tiny Plastic Toy
by Liz Scofield To You, again, the Love That Kills Me, Heals Me, Loves Me Tender, Loves Me Brutal: The words We use […]
Guest Editor of Number 96: Laura Denzer
As guest editor of Number:96, one of Laura Denzer’s responsibilities was to develop its theme, dependency. Said Laura in the issue’s editorial, “I come to dependency as the […]
How to Make Bread
By Rose Harding Making bread is an homage to the infinite. It seems strange to give the humble loaf of bread such reverence, […]
The Catch: Adjunct Struggles in Arts Education
by Jessica Denzer, Laura Denzer and Jessi Hamilton A catch-22 is a dilemma of choices that are mutually dependent and conflicting, allowing […]
S̶e̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ Experiencing Red
by Lisa M. Williamson Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1970) invites us to experience Red in-and-of itself, while Joseph Beuys’ Das Kapital exemplifies Rothko’s worst fear, that […]
Yvette Cummings: Splendor & Fault
by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani As a weary, young graduate student in the final months of my PhD, a male professor asked me what I was […]