inside traffic east
a space where it all connects
At Artpark, everything is permitted, much will be created, displaced, disbanded, forgotten, transformed–but nothing is ever really lost…
on secrets & silences: an interview with joyce carol oates
Our correspondence unfolded over email during the second winter of the coronavirus pandemic, against the backdrop of a world reeling in collective grief…
let there be light
Tomorrow, a month from now, next year, and beyond, Let There Be Light International will continue the work of improving lives through solar light…
of mice & medicine: dr. renier brentjens
Dr. Renier Brentjens’ career and life changed completely with a phone call having something to do with mice in the lab…
dakhabrakha
Tonight the Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha will perform their original live accompaniment to Alexander Dovzhenko’s Earth…
fight oar die
Chad will have the occasional company of his family’s voices and the very real, very near presence of dolphins and sharks…
all the ways we kill and die
The ghosts in the wood behind my home are not of the wood, they are of me, and I am the one who takes them there…
the alliance at 30
The miracles Anne Gioia and those who rallied around a cause bigger than any one of them would not have been possible with anything less than the singular commitment she made…
john maggio: documentary artist
John Maggio has an extraordinary ability to confront the chaos of the often-unsettling world we live in…
a better outcome: dr. andrew hyland and dr. danielle smith
Over 30 million Americans still smoke cigarettes today and smoking remains the leading cause of lung cancer…
fiction: fuller’s tavern
Fuller thought he saw Henry Stearns smile cruelly at Mary Jane’s screeching…
laying the groundwork: dr. elisa rodriguez
In just a couple of conversations with Elisa, you get a sense of the type of person she is…
too young to marry but not too young to die
Their eyes were open in the perfect lucidity of death…
opening doors
Creative solutions are necessary in a region where an estimated 164,830 people live with food insecurity…
poetry: the wilting season
Ashia Ajani (they/them) is an award winning Black storyteller soulchild hailing from Denver…
ray zylinski
Lying on the couch, many years removed from the November day in 1988 when doctors pronounced the glow in his eye a sign of the cancer that would blind him, Ray Zylinski brooded…
inflection point: dr. igor puzanov
I met Dr. Igor Puzanov over a video call in the spring of 2022. He sat in front of a bookcase in his Williamsville, New York, home…