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Arts & Culture

Jessica Maia Rasmussen

Cover Artist

Oct 09 '17Feb 04 '18
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Jessica Maia Rasmussen, a senior at Evergreen, left the ART/ WORK program in the Spring to work as a exhibition intern at documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. Documenta is an arts exhibition started as a post-war revitalization project in 1955, that has historically focused on conceptual art. For documenta14, the exhibition […]

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Tari Gunstone

Cover Artist Statement

May 08 '17Feb 04 '18
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Tari Gunstone works professionally as a portrait and event photographer while studying Environmental Photojournalism and Botany at Evergreen. She also writes and photographs for the Cooper Point Journal. You can find her work at www.tarigunstone.com The poet Mary Oliver wrote that, “to pay attention is our endless work.” That has […]

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Chris Bryan

Cover Artist

Apr 10 '17Feb 04 '18
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Photography—both creating and viewing it­­—always seems like a continuous experiment in what to reveal and what to obscure. I use photography to attempt to process the world as it happens, to reflect the way I view people, and to come to terms with the speed with which time passes by. […]

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Ashley Miller

Cover Artist

Jan 23 '17Feb 04 '18
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IV. I leave the mess. Piss stains color paper, and cd cases crack under my heels. I put on nice shirts and look in the mirror. Two weeks later I carry the mess to the dumpster. I ask about my blood in the jar. You say you poured it in […]

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Rachel Carlson

Cover Artist

Nov 02 '16Feb 04 '18
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I take photographs because they let me represent myself through an image. I feel stronger when I am taking photographs, I feel a sense of purpose. I enjoy documenting other artists at work and my personal work is often about double standards in society, marginalized voices, and longing. My work […]

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Andie Giron

Cover Artist Statement

Sep 27 '16Feb 04 '18
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I have spent the last three years in Olympia, growing, running into the same 13 people on the Westside, and most importantly, learning that I could bring parts of my freaky, outrageous inside world to the outside. My art is inspired by the different behaviors of humans, humor, what they […]

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Cover Artist Statement: Megan Bailey

May 25 '16Feb 04 '18
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by Megan Bailey Still lifes are often under-recognized and have sank to one of the lesser respected forms in the hierarchy of art genres, sometimes considered to be used as a preliminary study of form, composition, and value. In all honesty, I did not appreciate drawing still lifes and found […]

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Cover Artist: Ricky Osborne

Apr 20 '16Feb 04 '18
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I photograph things that don’t appear to have much beauty on the surface; their essence may be dark and ugly. The purpose is to create a more dynamic, universal aesthetic, to evoke unfamiliar feelings. I was drawn to this project by unanswered questions and mystery. It’s likely this series wouldn’t […]

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Cover Artist: Ruby Thompson

Apr 06 '16Feb 04 '18
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By Ruby Thompson If you’ve picked up an issue of this newspaper in the past four years, you have seen at least one thing that I’ve drawn. When I came to Evergreen, the Cooper Point Journal was just going back into print form after being solely web-based, and the editor-in-chief […]

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Cover Artists

Taylor Sikorski & Blaine Ewig

Feb 24 '16Feb 04 '18
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By Felix Chrome Blaine Ewig is a poet and photographer. An Evergreen graduate, she used to work at the Cooper Point Journal as our Arts & Culture Editor, and you can find her photographs in many issues of the CPJ. Taylor Sikorski, also an Evergreen Alum, is a comedian, videographer, […]

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