Orion Magazine - https://orionmagazine.org/category/art-craft/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:38:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 Out of Place https://orionmagazine.org/article/liz-sexton-paper-mache-out-of-place/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:08:26 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=268430 NATURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN Liz Sexton’s biggest inspiration and source of solace. In recent years, she has countered feelings of increasing disconnection from the natural world with her singular, fantastical paper ...

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]]> 268430 This Artist Creates Stunning Works Out of Ocean Trash https://orionmagazine.org/article/duke-riley-art-ocean-plastics/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:45:46 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=266567 ARTIST DUKE RILEY connects past and present through repurposed found materials. Often informed by the maritime folk art aesthetic, his allegorical scrimshaw and eye-popping mosaics reflect on contemporary and historic environmental ...

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]]> 266567 Orion Staff Recommends: 10 Books for Fall 2022 https://orionmagazine.org/article/book-recommendations-orion-staff-reading-list/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:00:49 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=250105 Sweater weather is nearly upon us, which means anytime is the right time to curl up with a good new book. Whether you’re into animals or activism, curses or climate change, ...

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]]> 250105 Americans Who Tell the Truth: A Portrait Series https://orionmagazine.org/article/americans-who-tell-the-truth-paintings/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:00:40 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=249974 Robert Shetterly began painting the Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits over twenty years ago as an act of defiance and love; defiance against the culture of lies promoting the war ...

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]]> 249974 Reading in the Dark https://orionmagazine.org/article/reading-in-the-dark/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:10:12 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236912 PICTURE ME: seven years old, curled shell-like around a book, oblivious to anything beyond the borders of the page. For as long as I can remember, I have been unable to resist ...

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]]> 236912 The Mimic https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-mimic/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-mimic/#respond Thu, 30 Sep 2021 22:22:06 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=232359   From Secret Life by The Ellsworth and Jeff VanderMeer. Images courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly. Read a short introduction to this book by writer and critic Alex Dueben.     ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-mimic/feed/ 0 232359 Recommended Reading: Autumn 2021 https://orionmagazine.org/article/recommended-reading-autumn-2021/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:54:17 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=224780   People from My Neighborhood  Hiromi Kawakami Soft Skull Press   I LOVE MINIATURES, the way big ideas are shrunk to digestible bits and dollhouse-size designs, where everything is there—just smaller. In ...

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]]> 224780 Fake Plants https://orionmagazine.org/article/fake-plants/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/fake-plants/#respond Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:35:40 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=224779 On the trail of the real in The Long Goodbye. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/fake-plants/feed/ 0 224779 Recommended Reading https://orionmagazine.org/article/recommended-reading/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:17:47 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=214876     Gordo by Jaime Cortez Black Cat Every sentence in this collection balances gymnastically, expertly on the thin blade of hilarity and mourning, happiness and despair. Cortez’s recurring character, Gordo, ...

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]]> 214876 Now That It’s Come to This https://orionmagazine.org/article/now-that-its-come-to-this/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/now-that-its-come-to-this/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:01:54 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=213824 ONCE, BEFORE I knew him well, I asked Barry Lopez the earliest thing he could remember. Without missing a beat, the most widely traveled and sophisticated spiritual seeker in North American letters ...

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