Open call for art! Applications open from April 25 – May 17 THEME: Pride is a time of celebration. However, it is also an important time to reflect on the fight for equal rights and queer liberation. This fight is not over. After a year of historically hateful rhetoric, censorship, and a record number of […]
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Photos provided by and courtesy of Kentucky Educational Television and Patrick Brumback of “The Famer & The Foodie.” There’s gold in the hills of Lawrence County, Kentucky. The county is rich with Appalachian charm, ripe with hills and hollers for foraging and growing your own food. It’s what you think of when you hear “My […]
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Erik Bauer captured reactions. By day, he was a research chemist for Kennametal in Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County, a region of dusky mountains and dense forest; but when the sun went down and Erik had finished observing how chemicals best reacted with each other to create safe machinery, he got into his truck and drove into […]
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Think back to your childhood. Picture a room in your grandmother’s house, or maybe at another relative’s. Is there a quilt hanging proudly on the wall, lying carefully on a bed or draped over the back of a couch or chair? Chances are, if you’re from Appalachia, the answer is yes. Appalachia has a rich […]
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Photos courtesy of Jeff Fasano Crossovers between musical styles can capture the essence of seemingly disparate worlds and create something new entirely. There’s a vibrant synergy where infectious pop hooks meet the power of rock ‘n’ roll electric guitars, or where the rhythmic beats of hip-hop combine with the narrative storytelling of country music. Other […]
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Photography by Star Shoults Huntington, West Virginia, singer-songwriter Alan “Corduroy” Brown knows what people think of Appalachia.“ You can look anywhere and say, ‘This place is bad,’” he said. But he knows there’s more to a place than unsavory news specials and documentaries will have you believe. “Growing up in Appalachia has its quirks as […]
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Fashion designer and Tennessee native Ashe Cain is transforming the boundaries of lux, designer apparel by making fur coats out of roadkill. Featuring photography courtesy of Jami-Lyn Fehr (roadkill) & Jacq Justice (beetle) Ashe’s time at Elmore School of Design in Franklin, Tennessee, inspired an ambitious question for her senior collection — how does one […]
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Photos provided by and courtesy of Kentucky Educational Television and Patrick Brumback of “The Famer & The Foodie.” There’s gold in the hills of Lawrence County, Kentucky. The county is rich with Appalachian charm, ripe with hills and hollers for foraging and growing your own food. It’s what you think of when you hear “My […]
“We dreamed with flowers. To see and be seen, to co-create, to transcend a single space and make something new together. We asked the world to give. To feel and know magic, to hold vulnerabilities – our own and the possibility of someone else’s. We prayed for rain. To move slow, to be uncomfortable, and […]
Growing up I had an irrational fear of natural disasters. I’m sure a lot of kids have the same intrusive thoughts. It comes after our kindergarten curriculum forces five-year-olds to learn about hurricanes and tsunamis. I remember not being able to sleep one night and climbing into my parents’ bed, tapping my dreaming mother, and […]
Influence: Into the Woods with Whitney Johnson
I KNOW THE RIVER WRITES FOR ME FOR I WAS BORN BY THE RIVER by Christopher Pointdexter
Poetry by Anna Chastain
“Mosquito Bites” – Poem by R.A. Morris
Open call for art! Applications open from April 25 – May 17 THEME: Pride is a time of celebration. However, it is also an important time to reflect on the fight for equal rights and queer liberation. This fight is not over. After a year of historically hateful rhetoric, censorship, and a record number of […]
VIEW VISION Photos courtesy of Jeff Fasano Crossovers between musical styles can capture the essence of seemingly disparate worlds and create something new entirely. There’s a vibrant synergy where infectious pop hooks meet the power of rock ‘n’ roll electric guitars, or where the rhythmic beats of hip-hop combine with the narrative storytelling of country music. Other […]
VIEW VISION Think back to your childhood. Picture a room in your grandmother’s house, or maybe at another relative’s. Is there a quilt hanging proudly on the wall, lying carefully on a bed or draped over the back of a couch or chair? Chances are, if you’re from Appalachia, the answer is yes. Appalachia has a rich […]
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In the southern West Virginia town of Beckley, the state’s only traveling dance company flourishes with a mission to enrich the lives of many through professional dance and educational opportunities across the region. The West Virginia Dance Company (WVDC), founded in 1977 as the Appalachian Dance and Music Ensemble, produces touring programs each year that […]
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The first stone is cast when a child expresses artistic aspirations and is met with: “Yes, but what will you do to make money?” Although these norms shift with each concurrent generation, for many of us, the idea of being a career artist has been synonymous with risk and a desperate hope, bordering on delusion. […]
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From printmaking to sculpture to filmmaking, Pittsburgh-based artist Derek Reese connects with his Appalachian heritage to create “anti-art” about mining in the region and abroad. Derek and I met up in his studio, a basement of an old warehouse in a Pittsburgh neighborhood. We planned to talk there until we realized he only had one […]
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