This week’s discussion of comics, and the delineation between comics and cartoons reminded me that I spent 7th grade working through a step-by-step guide to drawing cartoons and animation. My mom was halfheartedly homeschooling me at the…

Our discussions and analysis of images are constantly intersecting with other parts of my life in interesting and occasionally frustrating ways (one day I hope to look out a window without considering the ways a pane of glass might be framing my perception of…

In Ways of Seeing, John Berger depicts commerce and capitalism as a prism that refracts artistic meaning, overlaying the initial intent of the creation act with economic qualifiers that commoditize the piece and render its artistic value secondary…

The divide between conservative and progressive thought is often framed as one of class, pitting rural communities with industrial and agrarian notions of work, gender and race against urban technocracies intent on dismantling the economic and demographic barriers that seem intrinsic to…

Feeding Kids Cleveland Co. Food Program is a small nonprofit providing summer lunches and grocery deliveries to low income families with children in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Based in Boiling Springs NC, Feeding Kids is driven by people seeking to serve local communities and school districts isolated by poverty and lack of resources.