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Lil Copan

Lil Copan is an editor with Fortress Press and a painter.

sculpture of impressions of plants from the tallgrass prairie
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Delmar VanderZee’s Prairie Wisdom

Prairie Wisdom, by artist and biologist Delmar VanderZee, is a 15-tile sculpture of impressions of plants from the tallgrass prairie that used to range across the north-central ...
June 16, 2023
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Fanny Lechevalier Lafon’s
Untitled work

(digital collage incorporating photograph by Arsen Petrov and painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)...
February 10, 2023
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Doreen R. Martinez and Ronald J. Martinez’s Santa Maria de la Paz

At the United Church of Santa Fe, a small bulto of Mary sits on a stand near the entrance to the sanctuary....
January 10, 2023
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Jan Richardson’s That We Might Receive This Joy

Jan Richardson explores a question many of us carry without knowing how to articulate it: How does joy work?...
November 23, 2022
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Toward Hydra (top) and Matisse Chapel, Vence (bottom), by Eleanor Ray

Brooklyn-based and Southwest-informed, Eleanor Ray’s paintings are small works of attention—often around six by eight inches, oil on panel....
July 15, 2022
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Adam 1 (detail), Adam Organs (detail), Adam 2 (detail), by Gillian Genser

“It is not without irony,” says sculptor Gillian Genser, “that the creation of this piece was to be my demise.” When she set out to depict the story of the first man, Adam, Genser sought to reimagi...
July 1, 2022
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“I left my land, my land did not leave me,” by Qais Al-Sindy

Baghdad-born artist Qais Al-Sindy, who now lives in California, knows what it means to carry a land, a people, and a tradition with him....
June 8, 2022
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Life in the House of Mercy, by D. Brendan Johnson

Brendan Johnson, a medical student, podcast host, and graduate of the theology, medicine, and culture fellowship at Duke Divinity School, brings the ordinary materials of his woodcuts—ink, wood, ch...
April 21, 2022
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Sunflower, Marigold, Red Winter Berries (viburnum branch), by Tania Yurchenko

Among the ways many in North America are seeking to support Ukraine is by supporting its cultural work: Ukrainian artists, writers, and keepers of cultural and historical artifacts....
April 6, 2022
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The Burning Bush, Icon of the Lilies of the Field, and What Is It Like? by Elizabeth Wrightman

There’s a kind of visual poetry in Elizabeth Wrightman’s paintings—swatches of color, commentary, deep emotion, engagement....
February 25, 2022

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Let’s rest our souls, by Mandy Ford

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December 31, 2021
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Six Equals One, by James Quentin Young

James Quentin Young is best known for his assemblage work, repurposing found objects, discards, and metal scraps....
December 9, 2021
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Bowl of Oranges, by Sayde Laine Anderson

“I  hope to cultivate space to think about who we are as nurturers of our relationships and of the land,” writes Sayde Laine Anderson on her website (saydelaine.com)....
November 5, 2021
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Gospel of Mark, by Roberts Rurans

Roberts Rurans is a freelance illustrator from Riga, Latvia, who begins his works solely by hand with paint before later applying a digital postproduction process....
October 11, 2021
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Blue Jesus, by Dinah Stafford

At 66, she’s one of the oldest known living persons with Prader-Willi syndrome,” says Gil Stafford, reflecting on his sister’s life, work, and challenges....
September 15, 2021
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Hope, by Suleiman Mansour

In the art world, he is familiarly called Sliman. Younger Palestinian painters revere him....
August 18, 2021

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