2016-17 STAFF

Editor in Chief // Dianne Caravela

Chief Visual Editor // Olivia Williams Ridge

Design Team

Quinn Christensen

Sky Li Griffiths

Gabriella Harmoning

Martha Slaven

Anna Snider

Ashley Su

Club Leaders

A.M. Roberts

Amodhya Samarakoon

Adviser // Kathryn Campbell

Policy

Iris: Art + Lit is published by a team of Ibid yearbook staff and Iris: Art + Lit club members at St. Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Poetry, prose, and artwork is submitted via Open Mic night participation, teacher submissions of notable classroom work, and individual students.

Professional artists and authors jury the work. The art juror ranks the top 15 works in each medium: drawing and painting, ceramics, and photography. Staff members remove names from the literature submissions and the judge ranks these anonymous works on a 5 star scale for publication. The staff publishes works that receive the highest scores from jurors.

Bios for this year’s jurors can be found at the back of the magazine on p. 79.

Iris: Art + Lit is an open forum for student expression. The ideas presented in the work, as well as the copyright for each piece, belong to the author or artist who created it. However, the magazine staff reserves the right to deny publication to those submissions that are deemed inappropriate for a high school audience. The staff may also edit pieces for length, with the goal of maintaining the integrity of the original.

The mission of Iris: Art+Lit is to celebrate the diverse creative voices in our community and encourage engagement with the arts.

Inspiration comes in many forms

I take mine as a regular pill

It really depends on how your doctor feels about it. I told mine that I had a chronic case of mundanity and that was that 10 milligrams a day.

Most other doctors would expect a bit more than that. They might make you take a test on a scale from utterly boring to mildly uncreative. They’ll ask you open ended questions and give you example answers and if you use those answers as yours well then, I’m sorry but you might have to go in for some serious surgery like Jennifer Krawetz from Accounting just last Thursday. But most people, they get a prescription. The doctors these days hand them out like lollipops. You can take it as a gel pill like I do Or a silicone implant in your knee

Or a gummy shaped like Vincent Van Gogh’s ear

The one he lost of course—

When I forget to take yesterday’s pill and make it up for today I sometimes imagine he walked around looking for that ear And after searching for hours, He found it stuck firmly on his head

Just in a different place than usual. You can take those hard pills, too.

But I don’t like those ones, they’re too bitter

But some people really enjoy the bitter Truth is, I can’t imagine getting inspired that way. Maybe if I just thought a bit more about it Or went to the doctor.

Diane Huang

Calamity

Hana Martinez