After the Art — Issue 14 — December 2021

Welcome to After the Art’s fourteenth issue.

We hope you enjoy these six essays:

“Kinds of Women” by Stephanie Shi

“Alice Neel’s Cityscape: A Simple View from a Window” by Michael Templeton

“Angel” by Dawn Denham

“In Conversation with The Colonialist” by Cole W. Williams

“Frog Perspectives” by Phyllis Brotherton

“Bitter Heart” by Jon-Marc Seimon

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After the Art — Issue 13 — September 2021

Welcome to After the Art’s thirteenth issue.

We hope you enjoy these three essays:

“The Ekphrasis of the Second Self” by Alia Soliman

“Skimming the Surface” by Mary Anne Trause

“The Pieta” by Kerry Malawista 

We’ve also started a Facebook page, which you can follow for posts about future issues as well as exhibits, articles, books, essays, and sites that might be of interest.

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Skimming the Surface

by Mary Anne Trause

In December 2019, I saw the online image of a young girl posted by the Greg Kucera Gallery, which I had visited in Seattle often before moving to San Diego. The image captured me. I had to see it in person. I actually took an overnight trip to stand before her. Addie Mae Collins from Forever: Four Little Girls. One of the four Sunday school girls slain in Birmingham on September 15, 1963. Captured eternally in a Forever stamp replica by Paul Rucker. 

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