Art

 

Anne Louise Phillips is an independent author, photographer, and freelancer. She is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in English. When she’s not writing, studying, or taking photos, she loves traveling and meeting new people.

 

Asma Al-Masyabi is a poet, writer, artist, and student in Colorado. She is a Scholastic Silver Medal Poetry winner with publications in Taking Root: The Girls Write Now 2022 Anthology, Subnivean, The Ilanot Review, Up North Lit, and more. She’s currently pursuing an associate degree in English, after which she plans to major in creative writing. She looks forward to a career filled with words and art, her two biggest passions.

 

Maya Krishnan is a tenth grader at Skyline High School, in Sammamish, WA.
She has been learning art from Neha Parikh since the age of six, and has always found it to be a wonderful medium to express her emotions, and her perception of the world around her.

 

 

Erick Buendia is an artist from Washington DC who specializes in painting and filmmaking. He posts his artwork on Instagram @Buendia_draws. He is currently pursuing a career in Film at Wesleyan University.

 

 

Hollows : With this art piece depicting a boy putting on a worn-out smile, I intend to bring attention to the difficult realities of orphan/street child trauma and the impact it can have on children. The holes it can dig or has dug in the bottom of their heart, empty spaces symbolizing pain. 

Through this piece, I aim to convey the emotional trauma and grief that these children may carry, in the hopes of raising awareness and impelling society to take action to support and protect vulnerable youth.

 

Stories :  I created this particular piece, a drawing with pencil on paper as an ode to the power of imagination that flows in the mind of the young ones, as they are reminded of the magic they can find in the world around them. I can recall that when I was drawing the piece, my head was free of anxiety but my mind had a lot of things to say about how the atmosphere of everything touches my emotions, and translates them into flowers, into a subtle thing. The magic of advancement and the magic of finding innocence in the progress of your passions.

 

 

Olude Peter Sunday is a Writer, an Artist and Poet from Ogun State, Nigeria. He has few of his works Published and Forthcoming in Magazines including: Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rush Magazine, Typehouse lit mag, Paper Lantern, NativeSkin literary magazine, Parousia Christian magazine, Kalahari Review and others. He won the third place prize in the Endsars National Poetry contest held in October 2020. When he isn’t writing, he is painting pure pictures with poesy and photoshop. He tweets @peterolude

 

 

 

 

Siyu Chen is a Junior from the Madeira School in Mclean, VA. She drew this artwork to convey the unspeakable love in her family. Her family rarely expresses their love for one another verbally, but does so through their actions. The hearts in the artwork are not trapped within the glass, demonstrating how indirect expressions of love do not prevent their recipients from feeling them.