Morgan Widmer, the creator of Morgania, Ben Acklin, founder of Ocular, and Olivia Gianettino, the creator of OG Coleslaw, are all from West Virginia. Anika Ignozzi, the founder of OOH BABY, is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These four Appalachian fashion designers may come from the same region, but each has differing opinions on how those roots […]
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UPON MEETING NEW PEOPLE IN THE CITY FROM TINDER DATES TO TELETHERAPISTS — ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS YOU’RE SURE TO HEAR IS, “SO WHERE ARE YOU FROM ORIGINALLY?”
When I say I grew up in West Virginia, I get polite smiles. They have a loose idea about the opioid crisis and coal mines. They’ve heard Joe Manchin is stonewalling the rest of the Democratic party in the Senate. Maybe they have a friend of a friend whose cousin went to West Virginia University.
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Born and raised in the rolling hills of West Virginia, dancer Valerie Bailey’s Appalachian heritage laid the groundwork for meaningful stories and traditions woven throughout generations. However, upon moving to New York City to pursue a career in dance, Valerie found herself confronting the misconceptions about her background head-on, and she realized her rich heritage […]
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THE BEAUTY OF ARTISAN GLASS IS OFTEN RESERVED FOR ANTIQUITY. Its life is preserved in museums, family heirlooms, pricey eBay resells and cathedral windows. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, West Virginia saw over 400 glass factories come and go.
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pond water on my birthday I realize gravity releases us into space.the weight of choice lets me go and the first place I goat age twenty-two is the Museum of Modern Art to standin front of Agapanthus. ponds at home look nothing like thisand are barely blue. the color lives in stories tucked into reeds: […]
HOW DO WE MAKE SHAKESPEARE ACCESSIBLE AND APPROACHABLE TO APPALACHIA AND BEYOND? WHEN YOU THINK OF SHAKESPEARE MANY THINGS MAY COME TO MIND. Perhaps it’s people in posh accents, or a skull in the hands of an angsty man as he says “alas, poor Yorick!” Perhaps it’s ruffled collars, or Laurence Olivier or a disguised […]
I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME AWAY FROM HOME. Since I was a little girl in West Virginia, I have found the utmost solace in escaping the four walls designated my own. Stillness never came naturally to my body or my mind. My mother specifically recalls the winter of 2009 — my school system […]
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Born and raised in the rolling hills of West Virginia, dancer Valerie Bailey’s Appalachian heritage laid the groundwork for meaningful stories and traditions woven throughout generations. However, upon moving to New York City to pursue a career in dance, Valerie found herself confronting the misconceptions about her background head-on, and she realized her rich heritage […]
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SOME MUSICIANS WAIT THEIR WHOLE LIVES FOR A CHANCE TO PERFORM ON THE GRAND OLE OPRY STAGE, BUT NOT THESE TWO. Twenty-three-year-old Jake Eddy, a flatpicking guitarist from Parkersburg, West Virginia, is lucky enough to say he’s performed on the stage four times in the last two years. His younger brother, 19-year-old Carter, joined him […]
VIEW VISION THE BEAUTY OF ARTISAN GLASS IS OFTEN RESERVED FOR ANTIQUITY. Its life is preserved in museums, family heirlooms, pricey eBay resells and cathedral windows. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, West Virginia saw over 400 glass factories come and go.
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Mariah Majakey is a West Virginian visual artist who specializes in oil painting and explores different blends between realism and abstraction. Her works “Bubblegum I” and “The Goodbye Party on Union Avenue” were featured in YNST Issue 01
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Amelia Waring is a multimedia artist based in Northern Virginia. Her original illustration “Divided” was featured in YNST Issue 01
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Nick Campbell is a self-proclaimed “collage junkie” from the northern panhandle of West Virginia. His assembled work “Groom” was featured in YNST Issue 01
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