Nick Hurlbut
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Nick Hurlbut Nickolas Carl Hurlbut is an artist currently living in Pullman, Washington, in his first year of the MFA in Art program at WSU. He moved to Pullman from Portland, Oregon, where he lived for 13 years. In Portland he taught high school art for five years at Milwaukie High School after receiving his Masters of Teaching with a focus in Art from Lewis and Clark College. Before living in Portland, Nickolas received his BA in Studio Art and Art Education from Cal Poly Humboldt with a focus in photography. Nickolas primarily works in photography and ceramics. His photography work is primarily film photography focusing on portraiture of the queer community living around him. During Nickolas’ time in Portland, he volunteered for Newspace Center for Photography for three years, showing in numerous galleries within Oregon including Blue Sky Gallery in Portland and Lightbox Gallery in Astoria. Sassy Ceramics is a Ceramics business he started while in Portland where he was a member of the Oregon Potters Association. Through his membership with the Oregon Potters Association he helped organize and participated in Ceramics Showcase—the largest showcase of ceramic artwork in North America and Ceramics Northwest—a pop up gallery in downtown Portland. His ceramic work is largely wheel thrown and then hand built onto. During his MFA at WSU he seeks to expand his knowledge of photography and ceramics, experimenting with bringing the mediums together through screenprinting and relating the mediums to each other within the same bodies of work. You can see Nickolas Carl’s work on his website at NickolasCarl.com or on instagram @nickolascarl for his photography work or @sassy_ceramics for his ceramic work. Website: NickolasCarl.com Instagram: @nickolascarl
Abby Miller
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Abby Miller Abigail is a printmaker from Louisiana. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2024. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at Washington State University. Abigail’s practice primarily focuses on the environment and meaning of home as it relates to familiar experiences. Using the avenue of printmaking, Abigail creates works that incorporate draftsmanship, craft, and technological advancements to build a unique sense of her surroundings during times of intense change and realization.
Mark Rosalbo
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Mark Rosalbo Mark Rosalbo was raised in Leeds, Maine. He spent much of his early childhood exploring along the banks of the Androscoggin and Dead Rivers, the latter one of only a handful of rivers in the world that can flow in either direction. Early life socioeconomic hardships shaped much of Mark’s artistic choices as a composer, actor, and painter. Many in his circle, including his brother, succumbed to various cancers like Leukemia as a result of living along Maine’s rivers once polluted by paper mills. After graduating from high school, Mark moved to Los Angeles to study at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating from AADA, he moved to NYC and remained in the city until shortly after 9/11 when he moved his family to Vermont to enjoy the banks of (this time much cleaner) rivers. Website: https://www.markdrosalbo.com/
Lau Seara
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Lau Seara Lau Seara is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York City, originally from Galicia, the northwest of Spain. Her background is originally in psychology, although in past years she has worked as a researcher and program designer from an intersectional feminist framework. She enjoys life drawing, cross-hatching and sketching re-interpretations from her own journals and photographs, and is interested in modern life objects, places, and routines at their most mundane. Current favorite topics include people going places and domestic technologies.
Winslow Schmelling
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Winslow Schmelling Winslow Schmelling is a writer, teacher, and maker of things from the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where she earned her MFA in fiction from Arizona State University. Her creative work can be found in Literary Hub, Peatsmoke Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. Artist Statement: “Dis-Embody” is a series featuring elements of 1950s Lifetime Magazine advertisements with the women’s forms with reversed silhouettes in colorful but barren, manufactured landscapes. Each of these collages was mailed to a fellow woman artist across the globe, to break open and celebrate the new shapes and roles we create together. Find her at winslowschmelling.com
Kateryna Bortsova
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Kateryna Bortsova At present time Kateryna Bortsova is a painter – graphic artist with a BFA in graphic arts and an MFA. Kateryna’s works have taken part in many international exhibitions (Taiwan, Moscow, Munich, Spain, Italy, USA, etc.). She also won a silver medal in the category “realism” in participation in “Factory of visual art”, New York, USA, and the 2015 Emirates Skywards Art of Travel competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Website: https://bortsova6.wixsite.com/bortsova Instagram: @katerynabortsova
Katie Pippel
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Katie Pippel Katie began learning embroidery at her mother’s arm in the ’90s. She explored many media as she grew but returned to embroidery as an adult, as it was a comfortable medium for being couch-bound by the debilitating effects of endometriosis. Katie’s embroidery art ranges from the architectural to the sarcastic, floral to neurological. Her renditions of her husband’s brain scans during the course of his epilepsy can be found in the Opal Age Review. “All the Marbles I Have Lost” is a multilayered abstraction. The 1500 knots proliferate, not unlike disease. The title is a loving reference to her work as an English Language Arts teacher. When she is not stitching, she enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest Wonderland with her dog Zelda.
Emily Rankin
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Emily Rankin Emily Rankin was born in Riverside, California, and attended university in Texas, where she received a BFA in 2011. Her body of work deals with the tangles of human emotion and understanding, the intuitive messages of dreaming and subconscious exploration. Her work has appeared in such publications as Gasher, Wild Roof Journal, The Raw Art Review, Metonym, Meat for Tea, Landlocked Magazine, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Zoetic Press, Hey I’m Alive Magazine, and Rattle. She’s based in New Mexico.
Marina Leigh
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Marina Leigh Marina Leigh is a queer, biracial writer and photographer born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She is currently Managing Editor at Foglifter Journal & Press, where she is the project manager for the Start A Riot! Chapbook contest. She is also Associate Producer at Ursa Story Company. She earned her MFA in poetry as the Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. Her work has been published in several journals, including Product Magazine, Bear Review, and forthcoming in Blood Orange Review. She is the author of a poetry chapbook titled Wild Daughter.
Michael Moreth
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Michael Moreth Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of northwest Illinois.