iMAGES Mag a z in e 2015 Parkland College Student Art Magazine
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iMAGES Parkland College Student Art Magazine
A student-produced, student-juried publication showcasing student art in its many forms.
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A Parkland College Student-Produced Publication 2400 W. Bradley Ave. | Champaign, Il. 61821
From its start in 1981, iMAGES has continued to improve to include the best that Parkland College has to offer. iMAGES was first supported by Joe Harris, then chair of the Department of Humanities. After several editors and an extended hiatus, theProspectus has taken over the production and promotion of the magazine and has worked with a small team to produce a high quality magazine. iMAGES encourages students to submit their visual arts, graphic design, poetry, fiction and non-fiction work for review and publication in this magazine. The iMAGES team is excited to present another year of great art and design from Parkland’s best and most creative. Special thanks go out to the Office of Student Life Activities Program, who make the production of the magazine possible through their continued financial support. Thanks also goes out to the faculty of the Department of Fine Arts and Department of Humanities, who encourage students to submit work. We would like to specifically thank Director Tom Caulfield and Activities Program Manager Chaya Sandler for their continued support of iMAGES Magazine. Art & Design Director Billi Jo Hart Editors: Tim Anderson Humna Sharif Adam Vilmin Kelly Youngblood
iMAGES Guidelines: Submissions are accepted by students registered during the 2014-2015 academic year. Interested students may submit a maximum of (6) works. Questions? Email: images@parkland.edu.
Adam and Eve Leila Ghasempor Clay and Gouache
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BATFEST Poster Gloria Roubal
Illustration and hand-generated type (for BATFEST) done on Adobe Illustrator
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Snow White’s Revenge
Shooting in the snow is never easy but can be very rewarding. My inspiration came from two different t.v. shows Once Upon A Time and Merlin. I wanted to capture the purity of the snow while adding a dark fabric to darken the image. Shania Sears Photography
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Angel 182 Scott Wells Photography
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Relax like a Koi Fish Eleida Diaz
Drawing
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Zodiac Crab Elisabeth Coffel
Drawing
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The morning, pale, drifts through the window of my new room. Grey walls never looked so inviting. So understanding. The morning, still, fills my lungs with a sense of calm. Memories never seemed so close. So precious. The morning, broken, absorbs the sound of the telephone. Distress never seemed so ready. So knowing. The morning, sad, brings tidings of her. 7 am never seemed so sobering. So honest.
7 AM Jessica Stanze
Written word
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Is this okay? Billi Jo Hart Photography
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Adrian Frutiger Editorial Layout Kelli Mikhail
Adobe Indesign
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Still Life Leila Ghasempor Pastel
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Lakehouse Chelsea Gerber Photography
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A dark tidal wave Rushes across an otherwise Peaceful ocean My waters have rarely Ebbed past even the closest Rocks upon the shore I am scared of her hurricane I bunker down in the Stronghold of my seclusion She batters my windows Assaults my entrance Then the winds calm It’s the eye It’s her eye In the midst of it I am safe The debris settles She walks toward me Her white dress billows Our hands touch Only for an instant Her storm rages once again Her eye can no longer be seen A dark tidal wave recedes And my waters Become calm once again
Almonds of Wrath Zach Trueblood Poetry
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In the Garden
the fl our ers r our ers! In the Garden Curt Kupferschmid Written Word
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Combination Locks Brandon Gerber Digital Media
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I See Threw You Eleida Diaz
Drawing
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Acension Scott Wells Photography
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Crazy World Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Drawing
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Blossoms and Squares Humna Sharif
Drawing
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Beauty and the Beast Stained Glass Chloe Vecellio
Adobe Illustrator CC
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Common Mushrooms of Illinois Kelli Mikhail
Pen & Ink Adobe Illustrator
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Live Models Leila Ghasempor Charcoal
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Creekside Chelsea Gerber Photography
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Shipwrecked Alex Mears
Photography
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Imagine Yourself At The Afterlife Eleida Diaz Drawing
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Greeting Card Kelli Mikhail
Adobe Illustrator
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Graphic Design Student Show Poster Gloria Roubal
Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator
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Feelings
This is a long time exposure photo taken for my advanced photography class. I want viewers to get a feeling from the movement of the light. What is felt is solely up to the viewer and how they feel.
Shania Sears Photography
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Exorcising Tranquility Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Drawing
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Cinderella Silhouette Chloe Vecellio
Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Photoshop CC
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Summer Camp Music Festival: Here Comes the Sun Billi Jo Hart Photography
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As a boy, when curiosity overthrew me. I stole a spring-legged acrobat up quick from the ground, leveled it, Then condemned it upon an anthill. I watched as nature enacted, I, oblivious to my part, Captured by what is – Becoming what was – Now I, here, watching the blossoms melt steaming in the sun, Turn these greyed eyes from the future, For aspiration to a man healthy is reminiscence to a man sickly. I, here, transition, on an anthill of my own, Feeling mortality crawl it’s way around me, out me. Pondering, He who placed this Grasshopper, Me. For should I harbor ill will towards my transporter, When my mother’s creed cries Proud, Predestined, Preordained. Or weep at karma’s spinning wheel, The cookie, which crumbles reciprocal ways. The Watchmaker’s unequivocal gears left ticking, Stained stoic, finishing third, rusted. The lap of God, lemon field of wheat, Left waiting, waving. No, He, Thee – Omega, Alpha, All, Seems more a standing child oblivious, Stating, Excuse Me My Misgivings.
Excuse My Misgivings Zachary Flynn Written Word
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Designer Skyline Humna Sharif
Drawing
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JAM FEST Kelli Mikhail Pen & Ink
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Serenity Elisabeth Coffel
Drawing
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Mistakes
AIRUR
Mistakes Curt Kupferschmid Written Word
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Nature is Our Chaple Elisabeth Coffel Photography
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Cloud Nine Alex Mears
Photography
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Leaving Home Scott Wells Photography
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Mother’s Pain Eleida Diaz Drawing
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Every Answer is Full Elisabeth Coffel
Mixed Media
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est. 1994 Eleida Diaz Drawing
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Frozen Castle Stained Glass Chloe Vecellio
Adobe Illustrator CC
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My sparrows calling spring to come. Leila Ghasempor Clay and Gouach
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Delicate Kelsey Greene Photography
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Hail Cesear Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Drawing
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Olivia Lauren Hea Photography
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Is this okay? Billi Jo Hart Photography
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Here, sitting in silence, The hum of the heater my only friend awake, The pipes chatter rushed verses to one another. Breath, not my breath, fills the other room, While I, I sit and watch the snowfall. Behold, the eraser of sidewalks, Creator of the sea frothing white, Maker of men and artillery, The silence on a silent night, The patriarch of the seasons, The tester of roofs and of thickness of wool, Bringer of cold cruel fading breaths, Bringer of freshness, maintainer of flesh. Bender of branch and shaper of tree, Subject of many musings, thee, Fractions of billions and millions effulge, Here a whole, Softening the steps for my soles.
Of Footsteps Zachary Flynn Written Word
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Reflection Elisabeth Coffel Photography
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Numbers You have have look look look look a while get get it.
Numbers Curt Kupferschmid Written Word
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One in a Million Scott Wells Photography
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Riga Art Nouveau Festival Poster Chloe Vecellio
Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator CC
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Peacocks and Roses Humna Sharif
Drawing
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Right now as your eyes, sweet eyes, Meet with each these words, Know. That I am here with you. The silence you hear around you, Those interruptions of clanks and clatters, Those! There! Can’t you hear them? Listen – They are mine, and those they are yours. The grass that stretches its scents to me, The loaves of which my nose enjoys, free, Given here to me, While given here to you. See there out in front of you, Past our grass a ways? Not the broken dying table Dead its sitters, and singers, and meals. But behind, Yes! There! You see them! Those birches! Those sisters! White! Stretching out bent arms to us, An invitation to the Sky. Will you come, Here, and join me? Come and have at that which is Yours? I will sit and smile, And wait till you are ready, Even though, I know that you are.
Sister Wood Zachary Flynn Written Word
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Snow White Silhouette Chloe Vecellio
Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Photoshop CC
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We are the leaves upon the tree We grow weary and die Only to be born anew We prepare
We guard ourselves
We turn dark and brittle Then we are scattered We lose our way And all that we have known
We are filled with ice and pain We lay dormant
We bide our time until A familiar déjà vu washes over us The rain’s warmth thaws us We bud
We grow
Our green blood is replenished Someday the Mahogany Of our lives will cease to breath
Forever we will remain in the wind Never to return home again
Mahogany Zach Trueblood Written Word
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Different Demeaner Chelsea Gerber Photography
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Untitled Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Drawing
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Save As poem poe m poe t rn poetr u poetry poet ry poet icy poetic y poetic p o et ic o p et ic op ic .pic Save As Curt Kupferschmid Written Word
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Colors of Pakistan Humna Sharif Drawing
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When Geminis Rule Eleida Diaz Drawing
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Crashing Lillies Humna Sharif
Drawing
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Wash the Water Wash the Drink water. the glass. Kiss the Kill fear. the girl. Beat the Breathe lungs. the heart. Read the See poem. the art. Wash the Water Curt Kupferschmid Written Word
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Sweet Dream Leila Ghasempor Lime Stone
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Untitled Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Drawing
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One Scott Wells Photography
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Louis L’Amour layering the floor With old-dust smell and cowboy swagger; You, in your chair, cocked brow ready To deliver a glance to match your satire; Nicotine nails and a laugh gone rusty from always being out; Too-sweet coffee - the sneezing shout could never be as loud as all this hurting. The feeling of about-to-crumble swirling thin rainbow layers On top of the water of ‘I’m still living.’ But that’s always louder, isn’t it? Against the ‘I’ll miss you, for all, and for always’ Sometimes by a stretch, and sometimes by a sliver; after your death, life’s what you’re still giving So I’m still living.
To my Late Grandfather, Five Years Later Anastasia Bishop
Written Word
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Summer Camp Music Festival: Simple Things Billi Jo Hart Photography
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To read poetry is to dig. To dig into to the soil, and into the self, into the self of soil and solids, To break earthy flesh and to dump it over head, deepening and entrenching. To dig into the universe dark and uncover the stars, that core ruby and molten that erupts and expels as laughter and blush amidst friendship and courtship and hardship, To open the doors of the building body and to walk inside, losing yourself among the halls and among the portraits that adorn them. To read poetry is to hear. To hear the songs of birches and bridges and cities and storms, To hear the songs of those songs still, sang from all corners around and from graves underneath, To hear as God densely sleeps in a cup of tea, milk, and honey, and To engorge on the whispers of life as the stream echoes and the clay canyon creeks. To read poetry is to honor. To honor thy self and thy spirit, thy comrade and foe, To gaze gaping towards bodies and stars while they lace and helix in dance, craving only to unravel once more, To let exist naked that which does and has and will, eternal, Before man ever stumbled upon it spilling a name.
To Read Poetry Zachary Flynn
Written Word
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Typography Kelli Mikhail
Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator
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Jagged Path Chelsea Gerber Photography
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These Hot Days
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Breath of Life Alex Mears
Photography
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This is yours This is yours I can’t carry it anymore This is yours You’re the one who slammed the door You act as if I’m the one in the wrong But these were your insecurities Not mine, all along I have this hurt and this ache I want to be done with this pain I’m placing this at your feet And I am walking away I’m not to blame For this breach of attachment You once told me you cared I believe at the time you meant it Now you can’t even look me in the eye How can you care one day And the next Not even try I wish you would tell me the truth I guess you don’t know how I was comfortable and trusted you But look at us now I’m still hurting for now Because of what you did I wish you could see my pain I wish you could feel it
This is Yours Laura Hancock Written Word
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Untitled
This photo was taken in a studio with a fellow photo student. The effect was made by throwing flour into the air.
Shania Sears Photography
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Untitled Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Drawing
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Evergreens look blue While tulips laugh around the Small weed that flowers
Spring Unseen Zachary Flynn
Written Word
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Here. Billi Jo Hart Photography
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I am forgiving you like dawn. A gray, dark and terrible like death, and the grass, tall and cold, give way in a pink burst buried low in me. You are still out there somewhere, and someday you might grab another girl’s hand and drag her, giggling, to the roof of an old theater. She may gasp for love of you, breathing hot stars that forget to hurt. I hope you learned how not to break her and that you can cradle trust, egg-shelled and beautiful.
Waking Anastasia Bishop Written Word
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A cocoon of black and brown Bleached white bones beneath The soil is a gaping maw Reclaiming its own Maggots become your mother And your father Your flesh turns to dust Everything you ever were Every smell, every freckle Every ugly face you’ve ever worn Goes to bed beneath the soil Your energy remains Your soul, your spirit And everything in between Your condensed cosmic stuffs Which granted you life Are catapulted back to the universe They will live on In a new host Through a flicker, a faint memory Clouded with past lives We are the serpent feasting upon its own tail And the circle remains unbroken
You are the End but This is Not Zach Trueblood Written Word
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Dark in the Wonderland Humna Sharif
Drawing
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Where is my Mind Chelsea Gerber Photography
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Still Life Leila Ghasempor Charcoal
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This scribbled canopy both grey and quiet Laddered above rooftops pleated and chimneys stoned Great wooden capillaries on unseen lungs Breathing and swelling Shrinking, expelling. A blanket of wool cast over the landscape Has settled some places and bundled in others While sitting beside my window staring Does evoke a cry for summers. Come sun, come gold, come glistening, A lover’s hand lay tender on cheek When leaves cast down in dusky shadows A ballet performed on the streets. Sing out dragonfly softly That aria of the season, when tulip Lilac, chrysanthemum and orchid Expect no delay without good reason.
Winter Indolent, A Cry for Summer Zachary Flynn
Written Word
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Seven Days Scott Wells Photography
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Taffy Chelsea Gerber Photography
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Is this okay? Billi Jo Hart Photography
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Landscape Leila Ghasempor Pastel
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ABOUT
the artists
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Humna Sharif works as a writer at Prospectus News, and is studying to become an astrophysicist. She likes to doodle in the margins of her notebook, and loves sharpie pens.
Leila Ghasempor is a second-year art student at Parkland, was in jurors for Images Magazine 2014, got Underwood Alger scholarship in 2014 and Robert Ralph Ford Memorial scholarship in 2015,got Merit award in ICCJE2014, and loves majoring in sculpture program.
Scott Wells is a University of Illinois graduate seeking an art degree at Parkland. He is currently a photographer for the Prospectus and the Internet magazine Smile Politely.
Zach Trueblood is a 24 year old English major and aspiring writer. He works as Assistant Copy Editor for Prospectus News and a Staff Writer.
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Billi Jo Hart is a freelance graphic designer, photographer and blogger that spends her free time attending music festivals, volunteering and making art. Hart plans to pursue a degree at the U of I, then wander off to travel the world writing and documenting the experience.
Zachary Flynn is a creative writing student at Parkland college. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Zachary moved to Illinois in order to pursue a degree in creative writing. Zachary loves music and reading, but really just spends most of his days trying to stay warm in this unfamiliar climate.
Elisabeth Coffel has been interested in art as a career since she was fourteen years old. Coffel is an art and psychology student who attended Parkland College from 2012-2015. She plans on going to Western Michigan University in the fall of 2015. Elisabeth Coffel’s goal is to become an Art Therapist. She finds inspiration from nature and the benefits of using art as an emotional and creative outlet.
Kelli Mikhail was born in Berwyn, IL in 1991. Ever since she was young, she loved to draw and make art. Not a day goes by where art isn’t the main focus in her life. Her passion for drawing lead her to attend The University of Illinois where she studied Art Education and Painting for two years, later transferring to Parkland College to study Graphic Design. Kelli Mikhail is about to graduate this May and is looking forward to her future as a graphic designer.
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Gloria Roubal is a graphic designer and illustrator who will graduate from Parkland College in May 2015. She has lived in the Champaign-Urbana area for most of her life. Having a wide range of interests, she has done many things before graphic design, including massage therapy, elementary school teaching, and music performance/songwriting/recording (which is still very much a part of her life). She is passionate about animals, art, music, family, and friends. She also enjoys gardening, painting, volunteering with animal organizations, tennis, running, and being outdoors in nature.
Kelsey Greene is currently a Sophomore in the Parkland Pathways Program studying Social Work. Lover of the outdoors, genuine emotion, all things Wes Anderson and corgis, Kelsey really fell in love with photography over the summer. She currently focuses on nature and event photography, spending a good portion of her free time exploring the areas around her and taking photos for Exposed every second Sunday of the month at Soma.
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Not Pictured: Chelsea Gerber
Alex Mears
Chelsea is a woman with a tremendous passion for photography. She enjoys everything that photography has to offer, but most especially loves experimenting with darkroom photography, as well as using digital photography to create curious concepts for the eye. As a child her interest in photography grew from her father, which in turn put that camera in her hands forever.
Alex’s interests involve surreal self-portraiture and combining landscapes and portraits to create a new experience.
Lauren Hea Lauren Hea, Parkland College sophomore in the Dental Hygiene program, held a small photo session with her younger sister Olivia this month. Both happy with the turn out, she wants to share her sister’s beauty with everyone! PhotograpHea is the name of Lauren’s business/hobby on the side.
Shania Sears Shania is a current student at Parkland College and will be graduating in May 2015. She plans to attend SCAD where she will receive her masters degree in photography and then later on teach photography at a college level.
Jessie Stanze Jessie Seitz is an artist, writer, and student working in Champaign-Urbana. Her desire is to connect people to their own unique emotions while expressing feelings about her own past.
Curt Kupferschmid Curt Kupferschmid is a poet who focuses on the visual aspects of language; writing concrete and minimalist poetry concerned with making the reader see feelings and ideas rather than creating poetry based on sound. His goal is to illuminate the oddities and beauty of language through pictures made of letters.
Anastasia Bishop Anastasia Bishop is studying sociology, culture and creative writing. She has a fierce love for South Asian culture and Victorian ephemera, and hopes to become a published author and translator between Arabic, Urdu, and Hindi.
Brandon Gerber Brandon Gerber is a Digital Media student who works on improving himself upon animation and 3D modeling in hopes to become a Video Game Designer or Animator.
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INDE X
Anastasia Bishop
73, 85, 100
Curt Kupferschmid
19, 41, 56, 65, 69, 78, 100
Elisabeth Coffel
12, 40, 42, 46, 55, 98
Alex Mears
29, 43, 79, 100
Eleida Diaz
11, 21, 30, 45, 47, 67
Kelli Mikhail
15, 26, 31, 39, 76, 98
Zachary Flynn
37, 54, 60, 75, 83, 90, 98
Gloria Roubal
8, 32, 99
Chelsea Gerber
17, 28, 63, 77, 88, 92, 100
Shania Sears
9, 33, 81, 100
Brandon Gerber
20, 100
Humna Sharif
24, 38, 59, 66, 68, 87, 97
Leila Ghasempor
7, 16, 27, 49, 70, 89, 94, 97
Kofi Bazzell-Smith
23, 34, 51, 64, 71, 82
Kelsey Greene
50, 99
Jessica Stanze
13, 100
Laura Hancock
80
Zach Trueblood
18, 62, 86, 97
Billi Jo Hart
14, 36, 53, 74, 84, 93, 98
Chloe Vecellio
25, 35, 48, 58, 61
Lauren Hea
52, 100
Scott Wells
10, 22, 44, 57, 72, 91, 97
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