Hunger, art, and community at Pittsburgh’s Contemporary Craft
Exploration by Contributing Editor Jared Michael Lowe.
In its only U.S. appearance, Soutine / de Kooning showcases paintings of these two modern icons in dialogue with one another across decades, focusing on abstract portraiture, landscape, and portraiture-as-landscape. A third artist should be entered into that conversation: breakout painter and Philadelphian Jonathan Lyndon Chase.
by Sarah Hartman-Caverly
What happens when you’ve decided to give an animal a dignified end, and don’t succeed? Reflections on homesteading and the animals that feed us, by Sarah Hartman-Caverly.
essay by L. Lu • photos by Matt Weed
Writer L. Lu has traveled around the world, but now questions the imperative to catalog our experiences in social media posts, and what environmental impact these trips have on wild spaces. Is it better to be in the moment, and cultivate community at home?
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as told by Corinne Dieterle
A rower on the Schuylkill River encounters a fellow traveler who lives in an encampment on the river. A conversation—and a painting—results.
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