Winter 2024
Banner Art
“Travel Light” by James Keul
James Keul is a teaching fine artist, muralist, and father based in Durham, NC. James is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he earned a BFA in Painting, with honors. He continued his education at the prestigious Art Students League of New York. While in New York, James spent six years working as the assistant to muralist Richard Haas. James has exhibited his fine art paintings, intaglio prints, and monotypes widely, including the Green Hill Center for NC Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Bobby Redd Project Space, Brooklyn, NYC, Duke Arts and Health Galleries, Durham, NC, Leslie Heller Workspace, NYC, Lyons-Weir Gallery, NYC, and Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, NYC. James' works can be found in many public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the Bekkjarvik Arts Society, Norway, NBIAR, in Wilmington, NC, the permanent collections of SCAD and St. Johnsbury Academy, and in the collection of fashion designer Michael Bastian. His recently completed a mural for First Presbyterian Day School and an African American history mural in Durham's Braggtown, in collaboration with muralist David Wilson.
Flash Art
“Transformation” by Marleah Singleto
Poet and painter, Marleah Singleton, combines her passion for art and her belief in the power of people to use as a catalyst to spark imagination and call for action. What has art inspired you to do, to become? Who are we all, without community? Marleah’s works invites us all to acknowledge and see the realities of all people; then, imagine a new reality and take actions to create a world that we all want to live in.
Fiction Art
“The Sun Will Follow” by Zoe Mae Huot-Link
Zoe Mae Huot-Link is an illustrator, fine artist, designer, and creative writer located in the Twin Cities. Her work has been published in For Women Who Roar, Writing for Peace, 86 Logic, among others; and has won superior ratings and scholarship awards at the Selections Visual Arts Festival and AZ Gallery. She is the recipient of two Undergraduate Research Grants for her curation and exhibition of "Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home" (2019) as well as "La Femme" (2021); and is a winner of the Joseph O’Connell Art Scholarship as well as the Manitou Creative Writing Fellowship of the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict. She studied ancient calligraphy and martial arts in Bei Bei, China at Southwest University. In 2021, Zoe received her bachelor's degree in Studio Art with a minor in English Writing from the College of Saint Benedict. To process constructs of femininity and power she draws with graphite, ink, and colored pencils; makes watercolor paintings; and writes creative non-fiction essays and poetry.