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Under-the-Radar Poetic Devices
Poetic Devices (and Forms) You Might Not Have Heard of Some poetic devices are simply Must-Knows if you want to even begin writing...
Ris V. Rose
May 9, 202110 min read
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Three Nature-Inspired Creative Projects (For All Ages)
With everything that is going on lately in the world, and the strict lockdowns in many parts of the world, one thing that I’ve found that...
Kaila Gallacher
May 2, 20214 min read
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The Nature and Origins of Paleolithic Cave Paintings
The settings of cave paintings not only contribute to the content of the paintings themselves but serve a fundamental purpose in...
Sidney T.
Apr 28, 20213 min read
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Art-Related Events During Lockdown
And How to Find Your Own I don’t know about you, but where I live (Ontario, Canada), has just entered its third lockdown. And I don't...
Ris V. Rose
Apr 18, 20218 min read
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And Yet...
Deeming Art "Unessential", But Still Relying on It A 1000-person survey published in Singapore in June 2020 shocked and angered the...
Ris V. Rose
Apr 14, 20216 min read
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Is American Psycho the Ultimate Feminist Film?
There is an old urban legend that states if you say “American Psycho” three times in an empty room a chino clad man child, who spent his...
Georgia Balmer
Apr 11, 20213 min read
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How the Louvre adapts to a shifting art world
The Louvre announced at a press conference on March 26 that they will be exhibiting over 400,000 works online. The very concept of...
Sidney T.
Apr 7, 20212 min read
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Getting Creative With Prompts
A prompt is a tool many writers and artist use to generate and inspire more ideas for their work. Prompts can take the form of pretty...
Kaila Gallacher
Mar 31, 20213 min read
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NFT's: How digitized collectible art may harm the environment
The age of cryptocurrency has dawned a new way of trading funds and with it a variety of opportunities and drawbacks. It was inevitable,...
Sidney T.
Mar 28, 20212 min read
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Artist Morning: Review
The Magic that Happens When You Mix Writing and Meditation About a month or two into the pandemic I had a lot of difficulty falling...
Ris V. Rose
Mar 24, 20216 min read
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Chasing Inspiration and Creativity
Photos by Kaila Gallacher One thing that many artists and writers struggle with is that (sometimes) elusive and evasive feeling of...
Kaila Gallacher
Mar 21, 20215 min read
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The Women You Need to be Reading This Women’s History Month
The invite for women’s history month seems to have been lost in the post. It doesn’t seem a huge ask, we only wanted 31 days out of the...
Georgia Balmer
Mar 15, 20214 min read
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6 Songs You Need to Hear This Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month! Let's celebrate some musicians, shall we? Pictured from left to right: SZA, Rina Sawayama, Angèle,...
Sidney T.
Mar 10, 20212 min read
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Writing the Worlds We Want to Read
Filling Our Own Literary Gaps, Not Hollywood's The other day I was browsing through a bookstore I was visiting with my aunt and my dad. I...
Ris V. Rose
Mar 7, 20214 min read
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Exclusive Interview with Artist Alexandra Schmeling
We interviewed Virginia-based professional artist Alexandra Schmeling to find out more about her artistic background, influence, and...
Isabell Sliwinski
Mar 4, 20213 min read
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Sitting down with artist Rye: what works, what doesn’t, and the path ahead
Today I had the privilege of chatting with digital artist Rye, a young creator with an eye for abstract portraits, greenery, and pops of...
Sidney T.
Feb 21, 20213 min read
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Why should we care that Emily in Paris may win a Golden Globe?
It has been difficult to be on the internet in the last couple of days and not hear an opinion about the latest list of Golden Globe...
Georgia Balmer
Feb 7, 20213 min read
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City Pop is the genre of the future from the past
You might have heard it before, but what makes it so interesting? Mariya Takeuchi, one of Japan's most influential pop-funk artists that...
Sidney T.
Feb 3, 20213 min read
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Studio Ghibli: Mastery in Animated Storytelling
How a humble, ivy-laden studio in Koganei, Tokyo, and a bespectacled genius set a new standard for the animation industry. “I do believe...
Sidney T.
Jan 23, 20213 min read
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The Art of the Breakup Song
If you have spent any time on the internet in the last week then you are probably currently being haunted by Olivia Rodrigo’s Driving...
Georgia Balmer
Jan 17, 20215 min read
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Is a breakthrough on the horizon? Get a taste of Korean cinema.
Director Bong Joon-ho made cinematic history at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2019 as he took home 4 awards for Parasite, the first...
Sidney T.
Jan 13, 20214 min read
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2020: The Year of Emerging Protest Art
"Peace and Justice 1963-2020" by Lisa Gilyard Rivers It's definitely been one heck of a year. For some of us, this was the year of...
Nhi Nguyen
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Setting Artistic New Year’s Resolutions- and how to stick to them
Now that we are a week into the new year, most of us have probably given up on our new year’s resolutions, or maybe I’m just looking for...
Georgia Balmer
Jan 6, 20214 min read
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It's Time to Embrace the Roaring 2020s!
It’s safe to say we haven’t had the swinging start to the roaring 20s that we might have liked. We might have embraced the pandemic...
Georgia Balmer
Dec 20, 20204 min read
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