By Avery Quinn Merrill Pusey is Evergreen’s Multicultural Initiatives Coordinator and has been in that role for two years. Merrill is an incredible advocate for justice, bringing that passion to us through her work with students every day. She is also a painter of vibrant and evocative works ranging from […]
The Garbage of Earthly Delights
By Jack Stroud As for looking like you’re ‘bouta squeeze butterflies out of your solar plexus; lolloping cave-man like around a box TV framed in brightly painted polygons of cardboard; playing tug of war with your intestines when you’re an amorphous blob; twirling gracefully on an aerial swing amidst the […]
An Interview with Harrison Hannon
By Brooke Lynch (photo by Lindsey Dalthrop) Pre-Covid 19, what do you think the state of Olympia music was and what was your experience in it like? It was ranging from all these different types of people playing music: different genres, different subcultures, different sub genres being shown. It was […]
Spoiler Warning: Of Wizards and Workers – “Хо́ббит”
By Alice McIntyre As a child I was, like many others, enthralled by Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit. To this day when I recall my father sitting on my bedside and delivering his personal rendition of Bilbo Baggins’ journey to the Lonely Mountain and back, a part of me becomes […]
The Violet Paroxyst
by Avery Quinn The Violet Paroxyst is 20 year-old experimental music-maker Milo Balcziunas. Their music combines spacious melodies with a deeply evocative intensity to create what they call “hidden galaxies of sound.” Within these galaxies I am soothed and disturbed, made whole as well as fragmented, pulled into a world […]
Spoiler Warning: Videodrome
By Alice McIntyre Videodrome (1983), directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, is a sci-fi horror classic. It chronicles the descent of TV executive Max Renn (Woods) into a derealized nightmare by way of the ultraviolent program known as, well, “Videodrome.” The film is well and truly terrifying—not only […]
Artist Feature: htet htet soe
by Bahi’chi Castañeda Htet Htet Soe (they/them/theirs) is a multimedia artist and student at Evergreen. They use art as a way to explore self and experiences of identity, decolonization, and healing. Tell me a little bit about yourself. What does it mean to be Htet Htet Soe? Names are complicated! […]
Spoiler Warning: Sex, Power, and “Eyes Wide Shut”
by Alice McIntyre Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the last film directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a wonderful walk through an anxious maze. Based on the novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut follows the doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) as he deals with the ramifications of jealousy. The night […]
Artist Feature: Travis Johnson
by Bahi’chi Castañeda Travis Johnson is a Black, 41-year-old creative, storyteller, and artist currently based in Olympia, WA. Over the last three decades, he has honed his skill as a painter, sculptor, singer, poet, and textile artist, channeling the past and exploring themes of transgenerational trauma, memory, and reality. Tell […]
“I call it ‘beaming down’ to Evergreen State College”: An Evening with George Takei
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson Acclaimed actor, activist, and all-around cultural icon George Takei was this year’s guest speaker for Evergreen State College’s Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series on November 10, 2020. George Takei and Evergreen’s Library Dean Greg Mullins had a live-stream zoom call to discuss democracy and where our […]