Mickey Haist
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Mickey Haist Haist came to visual arts in his mid-thirties, originally creating abstracts in pursuit of the therapeutic aspects of the process. Having worked through all his feelings, he has transitioned to representational pieces. He is now working on a new series organized around the idea of nostalgic objectification of the midcentury. He works as a teacher. Website: www.mickeyhaistjrart.com. Instagram: @mickeyhaistjrpaintings Second Cold Night
Morgan Auten-Smith
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Morgan Auten-Smith Morgan Auten is an abstract painter and elementary art teacher from northeast Georgia. She is an art educator with 12 years experience under her belt. Art education is not just a means to an end for Morgan, but also a passion. She loves teaching creativity to kids and showing them all that they are capable of. Morgan’s work is bold, calming, thoughtful, filled with intention, and beauty. Through her own joyful take on color and shape, she explores the intersections between individuality and womanhood, and power and patriarchy. Currently, Morgan resides in Gainesville, Ga with her partner Joshua and twin children. Artist Statement: My work expresses the sacrifices made when struggling between the artistic self and the self that exists outside of the studio. As a woman, wife, teacher, I am reduced to fit into certain molds and must cull elements of myself. There are parts of my life that I sacrifice in order to create. Similarly sacrifices occur to complete artwork, layers sacrificed to find compositional conclusion, colors offered up and covered over in the name of balance. The sacrifices that are made in my work bring forth a language of light, color, edges, weight and shape. All of these come together to create a dialog that is arresting to the viewer. These sacrifices result in color fields of expressive geometric abstraction that are both powerful and delicate.There is always something under the surface in my paintings, something that makes the viewer pause over the subtleties and consider what has been sacrificed. Website: morganautensmith.com Instagram: _morgan_auten_ The Furies The Blue Train Devil Details
Keegan Baatz
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Keegan Baatz Keegan Baatz is a photographer living in Pullman, Washington. He is currently working towards his MFA (Master of Fine Art) at Washington State University. He received his BFA from Black Hills State University in May of 2023. His work consists of portraiture, fine art, and some landscape. Within his personal work, he is exploring digital manipulation and constructed environments, with a focus on spaces of transition and the hinterland. Website: keeganbaatz.com Instagram: keegan.baatz Point 28-15 Point 25-2 Point 21-47 Point 8-3 Point 30-9
Cynthia Yatchman
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Cynthia Yatchman Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle-based artist and art instructor. With an MA in child development and a BA in education, she has a strong interest in art education and teaches art to adults, children, and families in Seattle. As a former ceramicist, she studied with J.T. Abernathy in Ann Arbor, MI; however, after receiving her BFA in painting from the University of Washington, she switched from 3D art to 2D and has remained there ever since. She works primarily on paintings, prints, and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections, and she has been shown nationally in California, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, and Wyoming. She has exhibited extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers, and the Pacific Science Center. She is a member of the Seattle Print Arts Association and CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art). Website: facebook.com/cynthia.yatchman Instagram: @cynthiayatchmanart Color Trianaepta
Peter Scacco
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Peter Scacco Peter L. Scacco began making woodcut prints when he was sixteen years old. His artwork has been featured in numerous print and online journals. Mr. Scacco also is the author of seven books of poetry and a translation of Théophile Gautier’s The Salon of 1850-51. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Fordham University with a degree in art history, Mr. Scacco has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, and cities throughout the USA. Since 1995 he has made his home in Austin, Texas. Further examples of his art can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com. Website: www.scaccowoodcuts.com. Fragment Pattern Composition 7-22
Alice Stone-Collins
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Alice Stone-Collins Alice Stone-Collins is an artist living in Atlanta, GA where she is a faculty member at Georgia Gwinnett College. Her intricate hand-painted collages highlight the tensions between the mundane, the everyday, and the apparent dead. Alice earned her MFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee and has exhibited her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at KMAC (Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft) based out of Louisville, Kentucky and the David and Julia White Artists’ Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica. Alice has been featured on Studio Break and The Artist/Mother Podcast, and her work was published as the cover art for Aurora, The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology. She was also a finalist for the Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship, among other honors and awards. Statement: We are constantly coming home and leaving. We lose; we add; we change. There is a commonness and uniqueness of these experiences. Stale spaces—the mall parking lot, an empty community pool, a neighborhood cul-de-sac at dawn—are subjects that come to life by exploring their contrasting energies of boredom and beauty, stasis and comfort. Places close to home yet tinged with certain mythic qualities of wondering how you arrived here. These are the places my eyes have always been drawn to. And with an alert eye, I try to capture what is arriving and what is taking flight. Here, There Devils Details Maintain an Even Temperature
Rashad Ali Muhammad
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Rashad Ali Muhammad Rashad Ali Muhammad is a multidisciplinary collage artist known for creating vivid and captivating works reflecting the vast complexities of our human existence. With a formal graphic design and photography education, Muhammad blends his acquired skills to create art that fascinates and expands the mind. His love for innovation and continued experimentation fuels his whimsical and enchanting artistic sensibilities. He works primarily in mixed media analog and digital collage. For him, collage combines intention, investigation, and invention, dissecting established references and reassembling them to create new compelling visions. The limitless opportunities to incorporate unconventional elements fulfill his passion for exploration and continued learning. Muhammad’s ongoing journey to expand his emotional intelligence ignited his desire to explore the intricacies of the human experience — the expansive intersections that shape our lives and how we can relate to each other beyond the surface. As a queer, gender-nonconforming person of the African diaspora, he resonates with the ability to deconstruct and reform reality — a method of thinking and creation that can counter society’s hierarchies and binaries. Through his art, he cultivates open space for healing and rejuvenation from our chaotic world — where individuals can explore their authenticity through self-love, vulnerability, and connection. Muhammad is a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. His art has been exhibited extensively throughout the Washington Metropolitan area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) with various national and international exposures. Website: www.ramcreates.com Instagram: @ramcreates Noir
Sean Riley
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Sean Riley Sean Riley lives and works in Washington, DC. He received a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Northeast US. He has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and has been an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. His art and writing have been published in SHIFT, Open Doors Review, Heavy Feather Review, Gigantic Sequins, and Passengers Journal. More of his work can be seen at seanrileystudio.com and @studioseanriley. Website: seanrileystudio.com Instagram: @studioseanriley As Above
Suzanne Benton
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Suzanne Benton Suzanne Benton has shared her many-faceted art for 70 years and in 32 countries. A highly recognized metal mask maker, mask performance artist, printmaker, painter, lecturer, and workshop leader, she’s exhibited and performed widely with representation in museums and private collections worldwide. A trans-culturalist and feminist pioneer, recipient of a Fulbright (India), multiple grants, artist residencies, and hosting from the cultural arms of US Embassies, she’s authored The Art of Welded Sculpture and numerous articles. Listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Art, and Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, she’s currently writing a memoir Spirit of Hope. Website: https://www.suzannebentonartist.com Rescue