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Illustration + Design

The Illustration + Design program (I+D) encompasses a diverse faculty with expertise in graphic design, illustration, letterpress, book arts, visual narratives, animation, motion graphics, information design, and interdisciplinary collaborations with the environmental sciences. These specializations are reflected in a broad array of curricular offerings including: field trips, team projects with community clients, internships, and study abroad programs. Through an exploration of the relationship between authorship, personal expression, visual problem solving, and communication, students develop a body of self-authored work consistent with the breadth of the expanding profession. With a high quality portfolio and web presence, students are prepared to go directly into the field and/or apply to graduate programs.

Student animation work can be found here: https://vimeo.com/user27476192

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We're so proud of all of our 2022 graduates! This one holds a special spot in our hearts. ❤️

Lauren Paun is graduating with her BFA in Art & Visual Culture Education (emphasis on Community and Museums) and 3D Art. She has been a student employee in the School of Art for two years, working with our social media accounts. You might have talked to her about being featured here! Lauren has been an integral part of our team, doing a lot of heavy lifting to find the fabulous work y'all are creating and sharing it here. 

"I would just like to say how grateful I am for the opportunity to have had such an incredible position within the School of Art; I loved supporting and promoting the amazing artists that attend this school and feel so lucky to be able to learn and create beside them. I have loved every minute working here for the past two years and we'll miss it terribly-- but I am so excited to continue my journey and pursue my career in museums. A special thank you to my friends, family, professors, and supervisors for the constant love and support!!" -@laurenpaun

We could fill encyclopedias with praise for Lauren but hopefully this small note of gratitude can be enough. Good luck out there!! 🥺😭

We're so proud of all of our 2022 graduates! This one holds a special spot in our hearts. ❤️

Lauren Paun is graduating with her BFA in Art & Visual Culture Education (emphasis on Community and Museums) and 3D Art. She has been a student employee in the School of Art for two years, working with our social media accounts. You might have talked to her about being featured here! Lauren has been an integral part of our team, doing a lot of heavy lifting to find the fabulous work y'all are creating and sharing it here.

"I would just like to say how grateful I am for the opportunity to have had such an incredible position within the School of Art; I loved supporting and promoting the amazing artists that attend this school and feel so lucky to be able to learn and create beside them. I have loved every minute working here for the past two years and we'll miss it terribly-- but I am so excited to continue my journey and pursue my career in museums. A special thank you to my friends, family, professors, and supervisors for the constant love and support!!" -@laurenpaun

We could fill encyclopedias with praise for Lauren but hopefully this small note of gratitude can be enough. Good luck out there!! 🥺😭
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The MFA Thesis Installation is here until the 14th so there’s still a chance to have a look at all the inspiring work created by the 2022 class of MFA students! Speaking about inspiration, congratulations to Kenni Dankert with the work Stay in Touch. Here is a closer look at Kenni’s thesis work: 

“My name is Kenni! I'm from Kalamazoo, MI and have lived in AZ for most of my life. I came into the MFA program at the U of A in 2018 with a background in printmaking from Northern Arizona University, and have spent the last several years working between video and print media. 
 
My work uses metaphors surrounding tech, social media, and TV to talk about my own experiences with dissociation. It questions photographic consumption's effect on mental health, and what it means to experience longing through our phone and computer screens on a daily basis. 
 
My thesis body of work, Stay in Touch, exaggerates present-day and turn of the century internet aesthetics in a coded, narrative format; I reconfigure, layer, and collage personal archives with digital iconography to visualize myself as here and there, interdimensional and editable, disoriented and empathetic. Embroidery is my personal tool for grounding, and operates as performance within digitized memories to reference a human experience that is both manufactured and alterable.” - Kenni
 
Congratulations to Kenni and the other College of Fine Arts graduates who walked across the stage in the Graduate Commencement Ceremony!

The MFA Thesis Installation is here until the 14th so there’s still a chance to have a look at all the inspiring work created by the 2022 class of MFA students! Speaking about inspiration, congratulations to Kenni Dankert with the work Stay in Touch. Here is a closer look at Kenni’s thesis work:

“My name is Kenni! I'm from Kalamazoo, MI and have lived in AZ for most of my life. I came into the MFA program at the U of A in 2018 with a background in printmaking from Northern Arizona University, and have spent the last several years working between video and print media.

My work uses metaphors surrounding tech, social media, and TV to talk about my own experiences with dissociation. It questions photographic consumption's effect on mental health, and what it means to experience longing through our phone and computer screens on a daily basis.

My thesis body of work, Stay in Touch, exaggerates present-day and turn of the century internet aesthetics in a coded, narrative format; I reconfigure, layer, and collage personal archives with digital iconography to visualize myself as here and there, interdimensional and editable, disoriented and empathetic. Embroidery is my personal tool for grounding, and operates as performance within digitized memories to reference a human experience that is both manufactured and alterable.” - Kenni

Congratulations to Kenni and the other College of Fine Arts graduates who walked across the stage in the Graduate Commencement Ceremony!
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Graduation celebrations continue! Let's hear it for one of our newest PhDs, Kasey Stuart! 🎓

"I'm Kasey Stuart and I am graduating with my PhD in Art History and Education. My research explores and questions preservice teachers' reliance upon social media as a resource for lesson plans. Currently, I am developing a program to help art educators critically analyze and amend lesson plans found online before they have brought into K-12 classrooms."

Thank you for doing this critical work that keeps teachers relevant to their students, while also making sure they are intentional and accurate!

Graduation celebrations continue! Let's hear it for one of our newest PhDs, Kasey Stuart! 🎓

"I'm Kasey Stuart and I am graduating with my PhD in Art History and Education. My research explores and questions preservice teachers' reliance upon social media as a resource for lesson plans. Currently, I am developing a program to help art educators critically analyze and amend lesson plans found online before they have brought into K-12 classrooms."

Thank you for doing this critical work that keeps teachers relevant to their students, while also making sure they are intentional and accurate!
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Have you seen these sculptures by Daniel Newman? They’re currently inhabiting the MFA Thesis Installation, but they leave May 14! Make sure to get a look at these little pieces of Youngstown, Ohio, as Daniel describes further below. Congratulations to Daniel for creating such a striking body of work!
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“Having grown up in the rust belt of northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio, I have observed a prosperous history followed by calamity and how this haunts the general psyche of its inhabitants. My work is driven by my research of this history and the need to convey the psychological weight of growing up in an area with little prospects for the future. Youngstown, Ohio’s history of rising to the status of one of the most important industrial cities in America and collapsing into one of the country’s poorest is reflected in abstracted sculptures that I develop by building, breaking, and heaping fragments of corroded steel, ceramic, and concrete detritus reminiscent of the current decayed state of the postindustrial landscape. These works embody and convey the psychological and emotional disparity left from the industrial and economic fallout. Like the identity of Youngstown after the shut down and outsourcing of industry, my sculptures are amorphous and crumbling. I think of broken clay coils and extrusions as broken neural pathways and corroded steel as a vestige of my home’s identity. Encrusted rebar and steel shards constrict and run through ceramic and concrete forms embodying the rustbelt’s torpor and disillusionment. In some of the sculptures pristine red powder coated steel elements represent the prosperous past of the steel industry. The pristine and abject are juxtaposed to create tension between the past and present states of place. The resonance between this dichotomy can be understood as unresolved decline or unrealized potential. “ - Daniel Newman
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These great shots of Daniel’s sculptures were snapped by David Baboila.

Have you seen these sculptures by Daniel Newman? They’re currently inhabiting the MFA Thesis Installation, but they leave May 14! Make sure to get a look at these little pieces of Youngstown, Ohio, as Daniel describes further below. Congratulations to Daniel for creating such a striking body of work!
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“Having grown up in the rust belt of northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio, I have observed a prosperous history followed by calamity and how this haunts the general psyche of its inhabitants. My work is driven by my research of this history and the need to convey the psychological weight of growing up in an area with little prospects for the future. Youngstown, Ohio’s history of rising to the status of one of the most important industrial cities in America and collapsing into one of the country’s poorest is reflected in abstracted sculptures that I develop by building, breaking, and heaping fragments of corroded steel, ceramic, and concrete detritus reminiscent of the current decayed state of the postindustrial landscape. These works embody and convey the psychological and emotional disparity left from the industrial and economic fallout. Like the identity of Youngstown after the shut down and outsourcing of industry, my sculptures are amorphous and crumbling. I think of broken clay coils and extrusions as broken neural pathways and corroded steel as a vestige of my home’s identity. Encrusted rebar and steel shards constrict and run through ceramic and concrete forms embodying the rustbelt’s torpor and disillusionment. In some of the sculptures pristine red powder coated steel elements represent the prosperous past of the steel industry. The pristine and abject are juxtaposed to create tension between the past and present states of place. The resonance between this dichotomy can be understood as unresolved decline or unrealized potential. “ - Daniel Newman
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These great shots of Daniel’s sculptures were snapped by David Baboila.
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We are so glad to see everyone enjoying the incredible work done by our MFA graduates in the 2022 MFA Show! Featured in the @uazmuseumofart is Venessa Ball and her intricate project titled Crosscut: Mining and domesticity, creating a life in spite of and because of the mine.

“As a mining state, Arizona is among the leading producers of copper in the United States. 

These large operations required an extensive workforce, from laborers, to geologists, engineers, and company representatives. The mine would often provide housing, schoolhouses and gathering spaces in the surrounding area, creating an entire town owned by the company itself. Like so many other small communities in America these “boomtown” economies were built on what they believed to be stable and consistent growth. Should the ore deposit run out or the company no longer have the funds to dig any deeper, what then happens to the community? What should also happen if the very commodity the mine needs to keep going just happens to be right under the ground on which they built the town? If you ask the former townspeople of Ray-Sonora, AZ… there is no more town. In 1966, their town was demolished to continue the mine operations. 

Thirty years after Ray-Sonora was removed from the map, in 1996, the Magma Copper mine where my father and grandfather worked for decades—and that had provided so much stability for my family—officially closed, because it was deemed too costly to continue operations. The only way my father could continue his career in mining was to relocate his family to another mining town. This wouldn’t be the last time this happened in my childhood. Chasing the ore was my father’s way of ensuring our family always had a stable and comfortable life.

The delicate patterns cut from family and historical photographs highlight the tension often felt by my family and so many mining families as they attempted to build a life in the shadow of a brutal and unstable industry, dependent on an unsympathetic capitalist economy.” - @venessaball

We are so glad to see everyone enjoying the incredible work done by our MFA graduates in the 2022 MFA Show! Featured in the @uazmuseumofart is Venessa Ball and her intricate project titled Crosscut: Mining and domesticity, creating a life in spite of and because of the mine.

“As a mining state, Arizona is among the leading producers of copper in the United States.

These large operations required an extensive workforce, from laborers, to geologists, engineers, and company representatives. The mine would often provide housing, schoolhouses and gathering spaces in the surrounding area, creating an entire town owned by the company itself. Like so many other small communities in America these “boomtown” economies were built on what they believed to be stable and consistent growth. Should the ore deposit run out or the company no longer have the funds to dig any deeper, what then happens to the community? What should also happen if the very commodity the mine needs to keep going just happens to be right under the ground on which they built the town? If you ask the former townspeople of Ray-Sonora, AZ… there is no more town. In 1966, their town was demolished to continue the mine operations.

Thirty years after Ray-Sonora was removed from the map, in 1996, the Magma Copper mine where my father and grandfather worked for decades—and that had provided so much stability for my family—officially closed, because it was deemed too costly to continue operations. The only way my father could continue his career in mining was to relocate his family to another mining town. This wouldn’t be the last time this happened in my childhood. Chasing the ore was my father’s way of ensuring our family always had a stable and comfortable life.

The delicate patterns cut from family and historical photographs highlight the tension often felt by my family and so many mining families as they attempted to build a life in the shadow of a brutal and unstable industry, dependent on an unsympathetic capitalist economy.” - @venessaball
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Are you in need of a Nature Dosing? Ariana Sturr, an MFA graduate in the 3DXM department, is here to provide. If you haven’t already, make sure to get a dose before May 14 when the show is over! Her work at the MFA Thesis Installation includes hand-made nature and she has also created a nature walk to enjoy nature-made serenity as well. Here is a more complete explanation by the artist:

“Research shows that daily interactions with nearby nature help us de-stress, find focus, and lighten our mental fatigue. Extended exposure makes us healthier, more creative, more empathetic and more apt to engage with the world and with each other. I question how do we bring nature to the masses residing in these urban spaces? And through mass recognition of these health benefits could we spur a greater desire to preserve our ecosystems?

Nature Dosing is an indoor installation and curated outdoor experience designed to tease, delight, and confuse our bodies with “doses” of nature.

The curated experiences are situated across eight locations on the University of Arizona's campus. The outdoor sites direct one to spaces that reveal natural elements overtaking and existing almost in resistance to the built environment rather than spaces of pristine, well-manicured Nature. Each location is outfitted with interventions and a set of instructions, both meant to help one’s mind and body become immersed in the environment. By changing the way in which we interact with these environments we heighten our awareness of our surroundings and question the purpose of these false natural settings.
 
The indoor works provide clean, controlled, constrained, and commodified versions of nature that remind our bodies of the therapeutic and restorative experiences wilderness can offer. These artificial natural environments highlight euphoric sensations of being outside: sun warmed river rocks touching our skin, laying down on a grassy hillside, or letting warm sand caress our hands at the beach. These temporarily enjoyable, and potentially feasible home objects nod towards a future of mass-produced packaged Nature.

Are you in need of a Nature Dosing? Ariana Sturr, an MFA graduate in the 3DXM department, is here to provide. If you haven’t already, make sure to get a dose before May 14 when the show is over! Her work at the MFA Thesis Installation includes hand-made nature and she has also created a nature walk to enjoy nature-made serenity as well. Here is a more complete explanation by the artist:

“Research shows that daily interactions with nearby nature help us de-stress, find focus, and lighten our mental fatigue. Extended exposure makes us healthier, more creative, more empathetic and more apt to engage with the world and with each other. I question how do we bring nature to the masses residing in these urban spaces? And through mass recognition of these health benefits could we spur a greater desire to preserve our ecosystems?

Nature Dosing is an indoor installation and curated outdoor experience designed to tease, delight, and confuse our bodies with “doses” of nature.

The curated experiences are situated across eight locations on the University of Arizona's campus. The outdoor sites direct one to spaces that reveal natural elements overtaking and existing almost in resistance to the built environment rather than spaces of pristine, well-manicured Nature. Each location is outfitted with interventions and a set of instructions, both meant to help one’s mind and body become immersed in the environment. By changing the way in which we interact with these environments we heighten our awareness of our surroundings and question the purpose of these false natural settings.

The indoor works provide clean, controlled, constrained, and commodified versions of nature that remind our bodies of the therapeutic and restorative experiences wilderness can offer. These artificial natural environments highlight euphoric sensations of being outside: sun warmed river rocks touching our skin, laying down on a grassy hillside, or letting warm sand caress our hands at the beach. These temporarily enjoyable, and potentially feasible home objects nod towards a future of mass-produced packaged Nature.
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David Baboila is an MFA graduate in photo, video, and imaging. His work is currently installed at the MFA Thesis Exhibition until May 14th! This installation isn’t like most installations - it’s built differently. There are light and reflections and odd angles and movement all working to create this beautiful piece that David describes for us below:
 
Sugar Play
Two and a half years ago, I began acquiring vernacular photographic slide archives that document the personal lives of gay men who have passed away. Spanning the years 1958 to 1981, the images present a complicated story of visible and closeted queer male relationships. They depict stiffly posed men in military uniforms, naked men on private beaches, travel images made at iconic sites around the world, photographs taken over the shoulder of a door gunner in a helicopter over Vietnam, and candid snapshots of a partner enjoying brunch from a New York City balcony. Quiet, banal, complex moments lived by these men. The meaning of the images is further complicated by other images that reveal greater context—closeted lives, a yearning for intimacy, and queer desire in an otherwise heteronormative life. The true nature of the men’s relationships is opaque, as unreachable as the self-knowledge of the men depicted. Sugar Play is my interpretation of these archives in an attempt to penetrate and decode them on the basis of my own desires and self-knowledge. -David Baboila
 
Thank you for creating an opportunity to reflect on the past by sharing this beautiful work with us, David!

David Baboila is an MFA graduate in photo, video, and imaging. His work is currently installed at the MFA Thesis Exhibition until May 14th! This installation isn’t like most installations - it’s built differently. There are light and reflections and odd angles and movement all working to create this beautiful piece that David describes for us below:

Sugar Play
Two and a half years ago, I began acquiring vernacular photographic slide archives that document the personal lives of gay men who have passed away. Spanning the years 1958 to 1981, the images present a complicated story of visible and closeted queer male relationships. They depict stiffly posed men in military uniforms, naked men on private beaches, travel images made at iconic sites around the world, photographs taken over the shoulder of a door gunner in a helicopter over Vietnam, and candid snapshots of a partner enjoying brunch from a New York City balcony. Quiet, banal, complex moments lived by these men. The meaning of the images is further complicated by other images that reveal greater context—closeted lives, a yearning for intimacy, and queer desire in an otherwise heteronormative life. The true nature of the men’s relationships is opaque, as unreachable as the self-knowledge of the men depicted. Sugar Play is my interpretation of these archives in an attempt to penetrate and decode them on the basis of my own desires and self-knowledge. -David Baboila

Thank you for creating an opportunity to reflect on the past by sharing this beautiful work with us, David!
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The land is speaking; are you listening?👂

A couple of weeks ago, MFA graduate Raven Moffett debuted her installation, “The Echoes Build My Home” in the Joseph Gross Gallery for the 2022 MFA Exhibition! The piece is a generative multi-media installation of lens-based performance collaborations between Raven, a more-than-human kin and the land. It is intended to be a critically incomplete reference to Niitsitapi yáakokiiyi– homebuilding –tradition and medicine wheel memory, which necessitates intimate multispecies connections between ancestors and intergenerational storytelling.

“Drawing inspiration from traditional home-building practices of my Niitsitapi relations, audiences are invited to be active participants in the construction of a home space on land that is not my own. Navigating the installation by following multi-species joining of cosmic bodies referencing the sun, viewers embody collaborative efforts to dress the central niitóyis* structure, aiding me in the process of worldbuilding through webbed-relationality…this work builds itself in a circle referencing horizontal and webbed power relations that are cyclic, intergenerational experiences of time. It embodies memory, distance, reconnection, recognition, and collaboration as an ongoing praxis of survivance.” - @feathered_talon 

There’s only a week left to check out this amazing show, so be sure to visit soon!🤩

The land is speaking; are you listening?👂

A couple of weeks ago, MFA graduate Raven Moffett debuted her installation, “The Echoes Build My Home” in the Joseph Gross Gallery for the 2022 MFA Exhibition! The piece is a generative multi-media installation of lens-based performance collaborations between Raven, a more-than-human kin and the land. It is intended to be a critically incomplete reference to Niitsitapi yáakokiiyi– homebuilding –tradition and medicine wheel memory, which necessitates intimate multispecies connections between ancestors and intergenerational storytelling.

“Drawing inspiration from traditional home-building practices of my Niitsitapi relations, audiences are invited to be active participants in the construction of a home space on land that is not my own. Navigating the installation by following multi-species joining of cosmic bodies referencing the sun, viewers embody collaborative efforts to dress the central niitóyis* structure, aiding me in the process of worldbuilding through webbed-relationality…this work builds itself in a circle referencing horizontal and webbed power relations that are cyclic, intergenerational experiences of time. It embodies memory, distance, reconnection, recognition, and collaboration as an ongoing praxis of survivance.” - @feathered_talon

There’s only a week left to check out this amazing show, so be sure to visit soon!🤩
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Congratulations to Adri Boudrieau, the College of Humanities Outstanding Senior of Spring’22! Adri is a TRIPLE major in Classics, Anthropology, and Art History. Wow. Her specific interests include museum studies, the colonial and plundered history of art and artifacts, and archaeological research. To celebrate this great accomplishment -and hopefully reveal her secret- she will be giving a speech at the college’s convocation on May 13. For now, Adri tells us a little bit about her passions moving through the UA and onward; 
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I originally entered the University studying engineering and soon found that was not the path for me. I have always loved classical mythology, and decided to pursue Classics as a field of study. From there, I fell in love with Anthropology, and specifically archaeology, and being able to study people and culture so vastly different from the modern western culture I grew up in. I love cultures and how diverse people are throughout history and today. Art history felt like the logical next step, as the three fields often overlap. However, throughout my studies I learned about the harmful and dark side of these fields, as archaeology, art history, and museums have deep colonial ties and histories of looting, as well as massive misrepresentations of cultures and people. These fields and the world are changing, and I want to be a part of that change, especially in museums where repatriation and education efforts work to address the wounds of the past and do better into the future by critically examining collections and uplifting minority voices. I plan to keep moving forward, always learning and pushing for change. -Adri Boudrieau.
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Thank you for your dedicated pursuit of education Adri! We love to see it!

Congratulations to Adri Boudrieau, the College of Humanities Outstanding Senior of Spring’22! Adri is a TRIPLE major in Classics, Anthropology, and Art History. Wow. Her specific interests include museum studies, the colonial and plundered history of art and artifacts, and archaeological research. To celebrate this great accomplishment -and hopefully reveal her secret- she will be giving a speech at the college’s convocation on May 13. For now, Adri tells us a little bit about her passions moving through the UA and onward;
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I originally entered the University studying engineering and soon found that was not the path for me. I have always loved classical mythology, and decided to pursue Classics as a field of study. From there, I fell in love with Anthropology, and specifically archaeology, and being able to study people and culture so vastly different from the modern western culture I grew up in. I love cultures and how diverse people are throughout history and today. Art history felt like the logical next step, as the three fields often overlap. However, throughout my studies I learned about the harmful and dark side of these fields, as archaeology, art history, and museums have deep colonial ties and histories of looting, as well as massive misrepresentations of cultures and people. These fields and the world are changing, and I want to be a part of that change, especially in museums where repatriation and education efforts work to address the wounds of the past and do better into the future by critically examining collections and uplifting minority voices. I plan to keep moving forward, always learning and pushing for change. -Adri Boudrieau.
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Thank you for your dedicated pursuit of education Adri! We love to see it!
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We continue to show off our incredible MFA students and their work featured in the 2022 MFA Exhibition; today, we feature Woodlin Latocki who created this amazing body of work beginning in the Summer of 2020 in south Minneapolis. Woodlin says, “Turning the South Side S on its side and tracing through it an infinity sign – this work is an ode to the city to which I will always return.” 

“Rooted primarily in drawing, South Side Infinity Sign presents a psychogeographical meditation on the shifting spaces of the city of Minneapolis. This work is a hyperlocal study of a city in a state of reconfiguration, connecting its immediate present with the past while considering the uncertainties of the future. The landscapes highlight signs of both resilience and desperation in the margins of South Minneapolis neighborhoods – its streets, vacant spaces, burn scars, and edgelands. The processes of looking, cataloging, and filtering that built this work serve to ground me in navigating my personal relationships with place, class, and the future.
Most of the drawings were created following the unrest of summer 2020 that left many areas of South Minneapolis shaken and marred, predominantly along the Lake Street corridor, and were completed after revisiting and documenting sites in the summer and winter of 2021. The work captures places in states of limbo and imbues otherwise desolate depictions of space with a human presence through the language of graffiti. Using the built environment as a substrate, the work projects personal frustrations with the failings and broken frameworks of the city. While these undercurrents of discord and disillusion are present in the drawings, the imagery is rendered with lush detail and luminous color as a reminder of the potential for progress and renewal.” - @woodlinl 

The show ends in less than two weeks so be sure to see Woodlin’s work in person at the @uazmuseumofart soon!!

We continue to show off our incredible MFA students and their work featured in the 2022 MFA Exhibition; today, we feature Woodlin Latocki who created this amazing body of work beginning in the Summer of 2020 in south Minneapolis. Woodlin says, “Turning the South Side S on its side and tracing through it an infinity sign – this work is an ode to the city to which I will always return.”

“Rooted primarily in drawing, South Side Infinity Sign presents a psychogeographical meditation on the shifting spaces of the city of Minneapolis. This work is a hyperlocal study of a city in a state of reconfiguration, connecting its immediate present with the past while considering the uncertainties of the future. The landscapes highlight signs of both resilience and desperation in the margins of South Minneapolis neighborhoods – its streets, vacant spaces, burn scars, and edgelands. The processes of looking, cataloging, and filtering that built this work serve to ground me in navigating my personal relationships with place, class, and the future.
Most of the drawings were created following the unrest of summer 2020 that left many areas of South Minneapolis shaken and marred, predominantly along the Lake Street corridor, and were completed after revisiting and documenting sites in the summer and winter of 2021. The work captures places in states of limbo and imbues otherwise desolate depictions of space with a human presence through the language of graffiti. Using the built environment as a substrate, the work projects personal frustrations with the failings and broken frameworks of the city. While these undercurrents of discord and disillusion are present in the drawings, the imagery is rendered with lush detail and luminous color as a reminder of the potential for progress and renewal.” - @woodlinl

The show ends in less than two weeks so be sure to see Woodlin’s work in person at the @uazmuseumofart soon!!
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Katie Watson, also known for her art moniker, Ann Drew, is an intergalactic Illustrator and Graphic Designer on a quest to bring Sapphic Science Fiction Comics to the masses. She has fought the perils of the Asteroid Belts, Saturn's Rings, Snake Pits, and she has just finished toiling away at her MFA at the University of Arizona.
Ann's work combines 1950's-70's pulp fiction novel covers, lesbian erotica, comic book history/aesthetics, and overall tomfoolery. Her primary goal in life (besides fighting gators on the weekend) is to create work that looks and feels like her comics were made during the American pulp boom in the '50s to tell queer stories.
 
She describes this body of work currently displayed at the MFA Thesis Exhibition at the UAMA;
Sapphic Scify Comics is a culmination of three years' worth of research, deep dives into Queer archives, late-night ennui musings on the 'perfect' lesbian action movie, a headfirst fall into the world of queer art, and a lifetime of reading and loving comics. Sapphic Scify Comics started as a mad fanatic love of Science Fiction stories that then collided with my burgeoning fascination with the 1950s Erotic Pulp Lesbian movement. These two topics began to take on a new shape like a proton shot through the Hadron Collider. The comic you are now seeing grew from a fun poster series I started as a way to stay occupied during quarantine into an ever-increasing obsession with the idea of what makes a story Queer?
 
Congratulations to Katie Watson! Can’t wait for the next Sapphic Science Fiction Comic!

Katie Watson, also known for her art moniker, Ann Drew, is an intergalactic Illustrator and Graphic Designer on a quest to bring Sapphic Science Fiction Comics to the masses. She has fought the perils of the Asteroid Belts, Saturn's Rings, Snake Pits, and she has just finished toiling away at her MFA at the University of Arizona.
Ann's work combines 1950's-70's pulp fiction novel covers, lesbian erotica, comic book history/aesthetics, and overall tomfoolery. Her primary goal in life (besides fighting gators on the weekend) is to create work that looks and feels like her comics were made during the American pulp boom in the '50s to tell queer stories.

She describes this body of work currently displayed at the MFA Thesis Exhibition at the UAMA;
Sapphic Scify Comics is a culmination of three years' worth of research, deep dives into Queer archives, late-night ennui musings on the 'perfect' lesbian action movie, a headfirst fall into the world of queer art, and a lifetime of reading and loving comics. Sapphic Scify Comics started as a mad fanatic love of Science Fiction stories that then collided with my burgeoning fascination with the 1950s Erotic Pulp Lesbian movement. These two topics began to take on a new shape like a proton shot through the Hadron Collider. The comic you are now seeing grew from a fun poster series I started as a way to stay occupied during quarantine into an ever-increasing obsession with the idea of what makes a story Queer?

Congratulations to Katie Watson! Can’t wait for the next Sapphic Science Fiction Comic!
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‘Tis the season to see all the art. Another show is opening up tomorrow! @shinchliffe67’s Illustration+Design Capstone class is presenting their thesis projects! They have each been working on one project all semester. The dedication! Make sure you mark your calendar for the Opening Reception this Friday at 5 PM. Stop by the Lionel Rombach Gallery, enjoy light snacks and refreshments, and feast your eyes on the work. Congrats soon-to-be grads! Can’t wait to see.

Shout out to Autumn Weaver @autumnw__16 , Abby Moon @abbymoonart, Julia Roth @juliaroth_design, and S. Koskiniemi for creating the Show’s poster!

‘Tis the season to see all the art. Another show is opening up tomorrow! @shinchliffe67’s Illustration+Design Capstone class is presenting their thesis projects! They have each been working on one project all semester. The dedication! Make sure you mark your calendar for the Opening Reception this Friday at 5 PM. Stop by the Lionel Rombach Gallery, enjoy light snacks and refreshments, and feast your eyes on the work. Congrats soon-to-be grads! Can’t wait to see.

Shout out to Autumn Weaver @autumnw__16 , Abby Moon @abbymoonart, Julia Roth @juliaroth_design, and S. Koskiniemi for creating the Show’s poster!
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“Small. Confused. And in Awe.” 

In case you haven’t had the chance to see it yet, the 2022 MFA Exhibition is featuring this incredible body of work created by Florence Von Grote! The illustrations are based on treasured memories from the places Florence has lived. The little animals are stand-in protagonists inhabiting, exploring and experiencing dream-based worlds. 

“Small. Confused. And in Awe. is based on memories of the places I have lived. Events, people, and places are contorted and blended together into a half-imagined/half-remembered architecture. The nod to children’s book illustration invites the viewer to blur the boundaries between animal and human, reality and imagination.” - @flovong 

Featured images are:
Traveler
Progress photo
Cartographer
Gardener
Loiterer
Collector

We urge you to check out Florence’s amazing work in the @uazmuseumofart before the show ends on May 14!

“Small. Confused. And in Awe.”

In case you haven’t had the chance to see it yet, the 2022 MFA Exhibition is featuring this incredible body of work created by Florence Von Grote! The illustrations are based on treasured memories from the places Florence has lived. The little animals are stand-in protagonists inhabiting, exploring and experiencing dream-based worlds.

“Small. Confused. And in Awe. is based on memories of the places I have lived. Events, people, and places are contorted and blended together into a half-imagined/half-remembered architecture. The nod to children’s book illustration invites the viewer to blur the boundaries between animal and human, reality and imagination.” - @flovong

Featured images are:
Traveler
Progress photo
Cartographer
Gardener
Loiterer
Collector

We urge you to check out Florence’s amazing work in the @uazmuseumofart before the show ends on May 14!
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Need plans for tomorrow? Join us Friday (4/29) from 5-7PM at the Graduate Gallery for The Soft Lines exhibition! 

Soft Lines is a class exhibition for Art504 Soft Installation instructed by Angie Zielenski. 

See you there!!👋

Need plans for tomorrow? Join us Friday (4/29) from 5-7PM at the Graduate Gallery for The Soft Lines exhibition!

Soft Lines is a class exhibition for Art504 Soft Installation instructed by Angie Zielenski.

See you there!!👋
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The 2022 MFA Exhibition continues to amaze its viewers! And in case you haven’t seen it yet, we’re giving you a special look into Perla Segovia’s installation! Thank you to David Baboila for capturing these amazing photos of the show. 

“Retablo de Imágenes y Memorias is a multimedia installation composed of works in glass, embroidered drawings, and handmade, embroidered shoes on either side of an altar wall. These objects are presented in and around appropriated forms of the retablo to tell the contemporary immigrant story in visual form. During colonization, the church introduced the retablo in the Americas as a tool to aid in the visual communication and indoctrination of native peoples to Catholicism. This colonization destabilized the natives’ world and set the stage for political and economic problems that plague their homelands in the twenty-first century. With time, the retablo was appropriated by the natives throughout Latin America to tell their cultural stories and became a symbol of transcendent, native resistance.

One side of the altar wall is faced by an installation of children’s shoes cast in glass. The shoes signify multiple generations of immigrants’ children who are the keepers of their ancestors' memories of courage, sacrifice, loss, hope, and the transcendent dream to live harmonious, fruitful, dignified lives. Referencing the lockers in The Pima County Office of Medical Examiner storage facility, each niche holds everyday objects, cast in glass that are facsimiles of items found with the remains of immigrants who have passed away in the Sonoran desert. 

The other side includes seven embroidered portrait drawings and pairs of handmade canvas shoes made to honor the children who have passed away while in U.S. detention centers. 

This work honors the memory of immigrants and celebrates their strengths and perseverance. It brings attention to the necessity of providing humanitarian relief with dignity and respect to asylum seekers. As a former child seeking asylum in this country, as an immigrant of native ancestry to the Americas, I see my reflection and my family’s reflection in most of the immigrants that reach the southern border."-Perla

The 2022 MFA Exhibition continues to amaze its viewers! And in case you haven’t seen it yet, we’re giving you a special look into Perla Segovia’s installation! Thank you to David Baboila for capturing these amazing photos of the show.

“Retablo de Imágenes y Memorias is a multimedia installation composed of works in glass, embroidered drawings, and handmade, embroidered shoes on either side of an altar wall. These objects are presented in and around appropriated forms of the retablo to tell the contemporary immigrant story in visual form. During colonization, the church introduced the retablo in the Americas as a tool to aid in the visual communication and indoctrination of native peoples to Catholicism. This colonization destabilized the natives’ world and set the stage for political and economic problems that plague their homelands in the twenty-first century. With time, the retablo was appropriated by the natives throughout Latin America to tell their cultural stories and became a symbol of transcendent, native resistance.

One side of the altar wall is faced by an installation of children’s shoes cast in glass. The shoes signify multiple generations of immigrants’ children who are the keepers of their ancestors' memories of courage, sacrifice, loss, hope, and the transcendent dream to live harmonious, fruitful, dignified lives. Referencing the lockers in The Pima County Office of Medical Examiner storage facility, each niche holds everyday objects, cast in glass that are facsimiles of items found with the remains of immigrants who have passed away in the Sonoran desert.

The other side includes seven embroidered portrait drawings and pairs of handmade canvas shoes made to honor the children who have passed away while in U.S. detention centers.

This work honors the memory of immigrants and celebrates their strengths and perseverance. It brings attention to the necessity of providing humanitarian relief with dignity and respect to asylum seekers. As a former child seeking asylum in this country, as an immigrant of native ancestry to the Americas, I see my reflection and my family’s reflection in most of the immigrants that reach the southern border."-Perla
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Apr 27

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Our future Art and Visual Culture educators invite you to join them for the 2022 Wildcat Art Exhibition and Reception this coming Saturday (4/30) from 10AM to 12PM in the Lionel Rombach Gallery!🎉

Wildcat Art is a non-profit, student-led program offered by the Art & Visual Culture Education program at the University of Arizona School of Art. Now in its 27th year, Wildcat Art serves the Tucson community while providing hands-on teaching experience for advanced undergraduate and graduate art education students.

The exhibition features selected works by local K-12 students created during art lessons developed and taught by Art & Visual Culture Education undergraduate students. This year’s theme explored the community of Tucson through environmental and cultural history and identity. The exhibition includes paintings, collages, embroidery, clay works, and drawings.🌵

We hope to see you there!!

Our future Art and Visual Culture educators invite you to join them for the 2022 Wildcat Art Exhibition and Reception this coming Saturday (4/30) from 10AM to 12PM in the Lionel Rombach Gallery!🎉

Wildcat Art is a non-profit, student-led program offered by the Art & Visual Culture Education program at the University of Arizona School of Art. Now in its 27th year, Wildcat Art serves the Tucson community while providing hands-on teaching experience for advanced undergraduate and graduate art education students.

The exhibition features selected works by local K-12 students created during art lessons developed and taught by Art & Visual Culture Education undergraduate students. This year’s theme explored the community of Tucson through environmental and cultural history and identity. The exhibition includes paintings, collages, embroidery, clay works, and drawings.🌵

We hope to see you there!!
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Happy Earth Day!!🌎 We cannot wait to celebrate with the UA’s first annual Earth Day in the Arts District!! 

Today from 5:30-7:30PM at the Center for Creative Photography, there will be live music, food, and art for all to enjoy.

And if you get here an hour earlier, you can join MFA candidate Ariana Sturr in front of the UAMA for a guided campus nature walk!🌳

Students for Sustainability will also be here giving away free Earth Week merchandise on a first come, first served basis. 

We are so excited and hope to see you there!!🎉

Happy Earth Day!!🌎 We cannot wait to celebrate with the UA’s first annual Earth Day in the Arts District!!

Today from 5:30-7:30PM at the Center for Creative Photography, there will be live music, food, and art for all to enjoy.

And if you get here an hour earlier, you can join MFA candidate Ariana Sturr in front of the UAMA for a guided campus nature walk!🌳

Students for Sustainability will also be here giving away free Earth Week merchandise on a first come, first served basis.

We are so excited and hope to see you there!!🎉
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Get ready to use your clapping hands emoji because Sama Alshaibi, Professor at the School of Art for over 16 years, has been named a Regents Professor! 👏👏👏This honorable title is reserved for full professors with grand achievements reaching national and international distinction!

Sama Alshaibi: “I stand on the shoulders of so many. I never imagined my career could be where it is now. I’m not just an immigrant, but someone that didn’t have citizenship growing up. Education and the arts gave me a road to find my voice, and the University of Arizona is how I found my footing and path. I’m so proud to tell anyone I meet that I love my city, my job, my colleagues, and students. To receive this distinction means I have honored the university and community that gave me so much.”

Alshaibi has carried a lot of success with her wherever she goes! She is one of the most popular presenters in her field (nearly 100 presentations given so far) as well as one of the most cited visual artists with over 200 citations. Also largely due to her great efforts as co-chair, the School of Art’s Photography, Video and Imaging program has grown and is ranked #3 in the U.S. News and World Report’s list of best photography schools! Thank you for your passion and honoring us all here at the UA, Sama!👏

📸 creds to Zakiriya Gladney

Get ready to use your clapping hands emoji because Sama Alshaibi, Professor at the School of Art for over 16 years, has been named a Regents Professor! 👏👏👏This honorable title is reserved for full professors with grand achievements reaching national and international distinction!

Sama Alshaibi: “I stand on the shoulders of so many. I never imagined my career could be where it is now. I’m not just an immigrant, but someone that didn’t have citizenship growing up. Education and the arts gave me a road to find my voice, and the University of Arizona is how I found my footing and path. I’m so proud to tell anyone I meet that I love my city, my job, my colleagues, and students. To receive this distinction means I have honored the university and community that gave me so much.”

Alshaibi has carried a lot of success with her wherever she goes! She is one of the most popular presenters in her field (nearly 100 presentations given so far) as well as one of the most cited visual artists with over 200 citations. Also largely due to her great efforts as co-chair, the School of Art’s Photography, Video and Imaging program has grown and is ranked #3 in the U.S. News and World Report’s list of best photography schools! Thank you for your passion and honoring us all here at the UA, Sama!👏

📸 creds to Zakiriya Gladney
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Who else is excited the 2022 MFA Exhibition is finally here?!🙌🏼

From now until May 14, you can check out the amazing work of our MFA students in the Joseph Gross Gallery and UAMA! 

Tomorrow (4/21) is the opening reception from 5-6:30pm, and we hope to see you there!!

Congratulations to all of our MFA students for creating such an impressive show!🎉

Who else is excited the 2022 MFA Exhibition is finally here?!🙌🏼

From now until May 14, you can check out the amazing work of our MFA students in the Joseph Gross Gallery and UAMA!

Tomorrow (4/21) is the opening reception from 5-6:30pm, and we hope to see you there!!

Congratulations to all of our MFA students for creating such an impressive show!🎉
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You know Levi’s? 👖 Well; over 500 Levi’s stores just celebrated 150 years of Levi’ng it up and commemorated a fellow UofA alumni’s work! 
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Jimmy La Forge was born in Las Cruces NM, later lived in Douglas AZ, and is now known as Scooter LaForge of NYC. 😱 The celebrating company honored Jimmy and the work he has done for them by displaying a pair of his hand painted jeans in stores’ windows (pictured). The artist has also won an Addy Award for a painted ad campaign. Way to go global Jimmy LaForge! 
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Like a true Wildcat, LaForge speaks about his memories at the UA shaping his art career to what it is today. The artist mentioned the painting courses taught by Harmony Hammond and Bruce McGraw being highly impactful. David Carson instructed his graphic design course and inspired him to be unique. And in 1991, LaForge painted a mural back in the student Union and the Union Gallery. (pictured)

You know Levi’s? 👖 Well; over 500 Levi’s stores just celebrated 150 years of Levi’ng it up and commemorated a fellow UofA alumni’s work!
🎨
Jimmy La Forge was born in Las Cruces NM, later lived in Douglas AZ, and is now known as Scooter LaForge of NYC. 😱 The celebrating company honored Jimmy and the work he has done for them by displaying a pair of his hand painted jeans in stores’ windows (pictured). The artist has also won an Addy Award for a painted ad campaign. Way to go global Jimmy LaForge!
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Like a true Wildcat, LaForge speaks about his memories at the UA shaping his art career to what it is today. The artist mentioned the painting courses taught by Harmony Hammond and Bruce McGraw being highly impactful. David Carson instructed his graphic design course and inspired him to be unique. And in 1991, LaForge painted a mural back in the student Union and the Union Gallery. (pictured)
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The School of Art houses excellent facilities including studio spaces, computer labs with Wacom Cintiq Touch screens and animation stations, a digital imaging lab with large format printing, mounting and other services, letterpress equipment, photopolymer platemaking equipment, metal and wood type collections, binding equipment, darkrooms, wood and metal shops, sculpture foundry, ceramics labs, and external resources such as: the Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona Museum of Art and the Poetry Center as well as an excellent library that houses an extensive book art collection. The campus also houses the Learning Games Initiative Research Archive and the extensive Children’s Literature Collection.

Visit our Resources & Facilities page to learn more about the excellent facilities available for instruction in Illustration + Design.

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Degrees in Illustration + Design

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Illustration + Design Emphasis
  • Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Illustration + Design Emphasis

Contact an academic advisor or set up an advising appointment to learn more about School of Art programs and admissions

Annual Spring Portfolio Review

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Illustration + Design Portfolio Review

Accepting applications from Friday, March 12 at 9:00 a.m. until Monday, March 15 at 9:00 a.m.

This annual Spring Portfolio Review accepts 18-22 students in the Illustration track and 18-22 students in the Design track. We also work with students interested in both illustration and design on an individual basis upon acceptance to one of the tracks.

Eligibility Checklist

  • I have taken the majority of my First Year Experience (FYE) classes.
  • I have taken or am currently enrolled in Art 265/Art 266. It is best to take at least one of these classes in the Fall before the review. But there is no penalty for going through the review multiple times so you should apply even if both required classes are being taken during the review semester. (Transfer students should make sure they have had the equivalent of Art 265/266. Check with the Division chair to confirm).
  • A completed Visual Assignment (see below).
  • Submit 10–12 art works in your portfolio. The Visual Assignment counts as one of these pieces.

Portfolio Review Procedures

  • This Online Review will go live at 9:00 a.m. Friday, March 12 and be open until 9:00 a.m. Monday, March 15.
  • Follow this application link starting 9:00 a.m. Friday, March 12.
  • I+D Faculty will review and rank the applications. This procedure may take a few days.
  • You will be notified via email of your acceptance and the required classes for your track. Please note that if you do not register for the required classes in the Fall, you will forfeit your place in the I+D program.
  • You will also be notified via email of you are not accepted to the program. You will be able to sign up for advising appointments to discuss your next steps and get feedback on your portfolio.

Portfolio Review Guidelines

  • 10–12 pieces of work including the Portfolio Review Visual Assignment (see below). The answer to the assignment will be the first piece in your portfolio. Other pieces should include projects from Art 265 and Art 266, but may be supplemented with work from other studio areas including self-initiated work. Transfer students should include work from transferred courses.
  • Motion and Web design pieces can also be uploaded as well. It is best to upload a still and a hyperlink to online viewing such as YouTube or Vimeo.

Evaluation, Acceptance, and Advising

  • The work submitted should: Show an eye for composition and application of formal principles (scale, balance, weight, texture, direction, etc.); Communicate an understanding of form and sensitivity to materials; Show a clear understanding of color relationships; Demonstrate excellent skills and attention to detail; Show a facility with software. Ideas embodied in the work should be innovative and strong. Digital uploads should be clear and readable.
  • If you have been accepted into I+D, your name will be placed on a list allowing you to register for the required Design or Illustration courses* online. Register on time to get a seat in fall classes. You will only be guaranteed courses in the sequence indicated on the I+D grid (included with acceptance). If you do not register for the required classes in the fall semester, you forfeit your place in the program. If there are extenuating circumstances, contact I+D Program Chair Kelly Leslie (kleslie@arizona.edu) to discuss.

*You must maintain a 3.0 GPA in I+D classes in order to be guaranteed admission into these classes.

The Visual Assignment

The below poem is a prompt for your Visual assignment. Choose any stanza of the poem or the poem as a whole for inspiration. You may choose to include text but it is not required. Some approaches to consider:

  • Book/Book Cover
  • Typographic Composition
  • Sequential Narrative/Comic
  • Poster
  • Photography
  • Drawing/Illustration
  • Animation

A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo

In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for
those who would climb through the hole in the sky.

My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged
from the killing fields, from the bedrooms and the kitchens.

For the soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet.

The map must be of sand and can’t be read by ordinary light. It
must carry fire to the next tribal town, for renewal of spirit.

In the legend are instructions on the language of the land, how it
was we forgot to acknowledge the gift, as if we were not in it or of it.

Take note of the proliferation of supermarkets and malls, the
altars of money. They best describe the detour from grace.

Keep track of the errors of our forgetfulness; the fog steals our
children while we sleep.

Flowers of rage spring up in the depression. Monsters are born
there of nuclear anger.

Trees of ashes wave good-bye to good-bye and the map appears to
disappear.

We no longer know the names of the birds here, how to speak to
them by their personal names.

Once we knew everything in this lush promise.

What I am telling you is real and is printed in a warning on the
map. Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us,
leaving a trail of paper diapers, needles, and wasted blood.

An imperfect map will have to do, little one.

The place of entry is the sea of your mother’s blood, your father’s
small death as he longs to know himself in another.

There is no exit.

The map can be interpreted through the wall of the intestine—a
spiral on the road of knowledge.

You will travel through the membrane of death, smell cooking
from the encampment where our relatives make a feast of fresh
deer meat and corn soup, in the Milky Way.

They have never left us; we abandoned them for science.

And when you take your next breath as we enter the fifth world
there will be no X, no guidebook with words you can carry.

You will have to navigate by your mother’s voice, renew the song
she is singing.

Fresh courage glimmers from planets.

And lights the map printed with the blood of history, a map you
will have to know by your intention, by the language of suns.

When you emerge note the tracks of the monster slayers where they
entered the cities of artificial light and killed what was killing us.

You will see red cliffs. They are the heart, contain the ladder.

A white deer will greet you when the last human climbs from the
destruction.

Remember the hole of shame marking the act of abandoning our
tribal grounds.

We were never perfect.

Yet, the journey we make together is perfect on this earth who was
once a star and made the same mistakes as humans.

We might make them again, she said.

Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end.

You must make your own map.

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