From the Chair

Leaving the airport in Phoenix, Arizona last week, I took a cab to my next destination. I chatted with the driver about sports, in particular baseball, and he told me about sports he played growing up in Somalia, games that sounded like stickball or capture the flag...

From the Chair

BANKSY AUCTION STUNT LEAVES ART WORLD IN SHREDS My class this morning, was discussing the aggressive and often violent ideas of the Futurists and others in the early part of the 20th century. I was still thinking about Tomasso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, and other...
Point of view by Lindsay Christians

Point of view by Lindsay Christians

The university may bring artists here, but it’s the community they find that makes them stay. The four artists in this week’s cover story — 4D grad student Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, queer artist and educator Alaura Borealis, new photography professor Tomiko Jones and...
Make a face: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt by Lindsay Christians

Make a face: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt by Lindsay Christians

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt has made thousands of faces. Each one is a single, unbroken line tracing eyes, ears, lips and a nose in pen and ink or silicone caulk. It’s a quickly repeated self-portrait, an evolving, abstract sketch of how he looks to the world at any given...