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Artwork: Areca Roe
Areca Roe is an artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her Bachelor’s degree in biology from Oberlin College in 2001, and her MFA in studio arts, with an emphasis on photography, from University of Minnesota in 2011. She primarily works with photography, as well as video, sculpture, and installation. A recurrent theme in her work is the interface between the natural and human domains. She has exhibited throughout the region as well as nationally and internationally, and recently became a member of the Rosalux Gallery artist collective in Minneapolis. Roe has also received several grants and fellowships in support of her work, including the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. She teaches photography at various colleges in the TwinCities area. Roe’s Housebroken series has been featured on Slate, Juxtapoz, WIRED, as well as several other art-oriented sites.
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Literature: Chris Martin
Chris Martin is the author of The Falling Down Dance (Coffee House, 2015), winner of the 2016 MIBA Choice Award; Becoming Weather (Coffee House, 2011); and American Music (Copper Canyon, 2007) chosen by C. D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Award. He’s been a writer-in-residence at the Minnesota History Center’s Gale Library, a Bartos Fellow at United World College, a readerin-residence at the South Minneapolis Society Library, and is the recipient of a 2017 NEA grant for poetry. In 2015 he co-founded Unrestricted Interest, a consultancy and writing program dedicated to transforming the lives of kids and adults on the autism spectrum through poetry. He has also taught at The Loft Literary Center, the University of Iowa, and Carleton College.
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Iris: Art + Lit 2017 was printed by Ideal Printing in Saint Paul, MN on 70# uncoated paper with a 80# soft touch laminate cover.
Body text font is Constantia regular 11 pt. Titles and authors font is Kohinoor Devanagari in Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold and Bold.
All graphic design was completed in Adobe CS6 on iMac computers with 27” monitors.
425 copies of the magazine were printed. One copy of the magazine was distributed free of charge to each 9-12 student, with the help of patron funding and the support of a publications budget for the magazine. Additional copies of the magazine can be purchased for $10, subject to availability.
