How can an image suggest and subvert order? How can abstraction spur an experience of free association? What are the physical and psychological effects of curated space and knowledge? Does a body have a psychological depository that safeguards imagination? How do we recuperate this depository? These screen prints started as […]
Stuff To Do
By Sarah Bradley & Sara Fabian SATURDAY 1/30 Oh, Rose, DUZZ, Jo Passed, Thunderwerld 523 Stoll Rd SE. 8pm. Donation. This sweet house show is happening inside a barn on the far east side of Olympia. Full disclosure: one of our employees lives there but wasn’t part of organizing this […]
Prison Obscura Opened Last Thursday at the Evergreen Gallery
By Jules Prosser & Ruby Love Prison Obscura is not for the faint of heart, nor for those who choose and cherish gentle ignorance. The experience of Prison Obscura can be compared to the nature of the moon. People like us exist on a planet on which we only see […]
TrumboOFS Shows the Oscar Pick
By Chloe Marina Manchester The Hollywood Blacklist began in the 1940s when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began to question certain American directors, screenwriters, musicians, and actors on the suspicion that their work was communist inspired. Those entertainment professionals were denied employment on those grounds. Though this blacklisting was […]
Jules ProsserCover Artist
Hello, my name is Jules, I write for this newspaper, and now my artwork is in it (wowie!). I like to draw portraits and figures mostly, but I also draw still lifes and cityscapes. I am an extremely casual artist. I think perfection is dumb (but also really cool, who […]
Kept Out/Kept InNew Exhibits Coming to the Evergreen Campus
By Ruby Love The 2016 winter quarter marks the start of Kept Out/Kept In, an amazing series of exhibits and events coming to the Evergreen campus. Kept Out/Kept In, as the title suggests, deals with spaces of privilege and spaces of confinement. Addressing social and economic inequality, complexities of identity, […]
{Re}Discovering EvergreenWho Knew There Were Rare Books Here?
By Jules Prosser Dear readers, have you ever stepped into the Rare Books Collection? Do you know what it is? Well, it’s a room in the Library full of coolest, oldest, most mind-bending books you’ve never seen or heard of before before. Were you even aware that our humble institution […]
All Freakin’ Night Olympia’s Favorite Night of Horror & Gore
By Jasmine Kozak Gilroy Capitol Theatre is home to the Olympia Film Society, an eight year old ghost, and, once a year, a vintage horror film marathon known as All Freakin’ Night. All Freakin’ Night, a mainstay in the Olympia Film Festival since 1989, is a hodgepodge of existentialism and […]
Fall of Magic: An Interview with Ross Cowman
By Amber Hare Walking up a long and narrow flight of stairs, I eventually reached a cramped studio perched above downtown Olympia. The walls are lined with huge boxes filled with canvas scrolls, bags filled with metal coins. A sewing machine hides under a table stacked high with bubble wrap […]
Hump! Fest Let’s See How Many Times I Can Use the Word “Dick” in One Article
By Jules Prosser I went to Hump! Fest for the first time this year. Boy, was I excited! I knew it was going to be weird. I knew it was going to be delightfully uncomfortable. I knew it was going to be a sexy time. Being a fan of all […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.