The woman, the poet, the teacher: Jackalope Magazine talks to departing CWL co-chair Dana Levin about her tenure with the department, as well as the colleagues and students who will miss her.
Self-portraits/selfies...
posted by Rene Bjorheim
This week Jackalope photographers turn the lens on themselves and explore self-portraits and the more contemporary “selfies.”
Q/A with Bailey Schaumburg...
posted by Nick Martinez
As a part of an ongoing Q&A session with the Creative Writing and Literature Department’s Senior Reading Class, Jackalope Magazine sat down with Bailey Schaumburg. Schaumburg discussed sass, self aware poetry and poet-lady sex. Schaumburg reads with Mark Feigenbutz and Leticia Gonzales at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 21 in O’Shaughnessy Performance Space. Jackalope Magazine: How dare you? Bailey Schaumburg: I like to throw sass back when I get the sass. It’s like sass softball. JM: How did you get into writing? BS: I’ve always liked writing, but I took a creative writing class in high school and just loved it. JM: What genre do you work in and why? BS: Poetry. (awkward pause) JM: OK, do you work in other genres as well? BS: Not really. I like to pull things from other genres into my poetry. Or try to. I fail miserably sometimes. I’d say fiction actually has helped me most, because it helps to tell lies. JM: What three words would you use to describe your writing? BS: Uhh. The only three words that comes to mind are: bloody, shitty and badass. (laughs) JM: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever written? BS: One time I wrote a poem about writing poems that was really self aware. It was horrible. It was sappy, maudlinesky as Dana [Levin)] would say. It was called the “Poem Poem” or something like that. It was bad. JM: How do you balance work and family? BS: Yeah, I have a daughter named Calypso. Not really. I don’t very well. JM: Marrry, Fuck, Kill: Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Ashton Kutcher. BS: Oh God. Fuck Sylvia, Marry Ashton, Kill Gertrude Stein. Sylvia and I would have crazed poet-lady sex!...
Cultural Gatherings
posted by Charlotte Martinez
SFUAD’s Indigenous Cultures Club seeks to promote interconnectedness.
Quidditch on the Quad
posted by Andrew Koss
SFUAD’s new Quidditch club has its first practice session.
The Young Professionals
posted by Luke Montavon
The Young Professionals was the second of four senior readings through SFUAD’s Creative Writing and Literature Department.
Coming Attractions
posted by Charlotte Martinez
Showcasing the best in classical, independent and foreign cinema, The Screen cinematheque at Santa Fe University of Art and Design presents new releases, special cinema events and performances all day every day. Here’s what’s playing April 17-23, 2015.
Pride Week!
posted by Charli Renken
Pride Week kicks off today with an open mic this evening, April 16, in the Forum at 7 p.m. In addition to the open mic, students will be performing skits, plays and poetry. The Screen will also be showing “The Birdcage” tonight at 10 p.m with free pizza. Sponsored by COLORS, Pride week will continue with events happening each day, ending Sunday, April 19.
Street Food Institute’s Lunch on Wheels
posted by Serafima Fedorova
Starting April 24, and every Friday after that, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., SFUAD students will be able to order lunch from the Street Food Institute food truck. The truck is parked near campus by the Higher Education Center at the intersection of Yucca Street and Siringo Road. The food truck also will also be catering for the fifth annual Outdoor Vision Fest™ (OVF), serving food on May 1, on the SFUAD campus.
Q/A w/ Rochelle Esquerra...
posted by Zoe Baillargeon
SFUAD Performing Arts Department BFA tech senior Rochelle Esquerra talks about her time at SFUAD, and what comes next.
Behind the “Music Box”
posted by Nicholas Beckman
“There is an image that we want to put out there ‘cause we think that’s a powerful tool,” said Janel Blanco Jean-Bart, lead vocalist for the Maya Spectra. Maya Spectra describes themselves as independent electronic pop, though members were hesitant to brand themselves as a “pop” band. “Our strong structures tend to reflect pop song structures, but we’re not exactly doing the Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift type thing,” said Donald Peña who, along with his brother Julian, makes up the rest of the Maya Spectra. Beginning more than a year and a half ago as the Janel Blanco Trio, the Maya Spectra has gone from being strictly defined with a jazz label to branching out into creating original scores, and thus, finding its own unique image. Its latest EP, “Music Box,” was released in December and caught the attention of various music publications, including Ear Milk and Entertainment Weekly, to name a few. Perhaps more importantly, they became a household name amongst SFUAD students —Amy West, a junior in the Film School, being one of them. West heard the EP and found inspiration to practice fire dancing to the song “Quicksand.” After posting a short video to her Instagram account, she began pondering the possibilities of incorporating Maya Spectra’s music and her own talents behind the camera. West consulted her peers in the Film School to see who might be interested and piqued the interest of junior Jakob Anderson. After garnering the support of Anderson and his crew and ensuring that she could create the project for class credit (Advanced Cinematography) , West began drafting a script. Unsure of how the band would respond to her pitch, West took the dive and sent a lengthy message to Maya Spectra’s Facebook group. “At the beginning of the semester, I’m like, ‘I’m gonna ask them! I’m gonna ask the band,’” said a giddy West as she sat with the Maya Spectra during band members’ interview with Jackalope Magazine. It soon became apparent to West that the Maya Spectra had reservations about what kind of image the band would be putting out. What initially began as a fire-dancing music video soon became a visual representation of the Maya Spectra’s compositional narrative. “[The fire-dancing] went completely out the window, but I think what we’re going to end up with will be a much more satisfying piece with a stronger narrative,“ said a hopeful West. “I think it worked out,” added J. Peña, who along with the rest of the band seemed unashamedly confident in West and Anderson’s work—with just cause: their work is incredible. West’s style borders on Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson, with a confident attention to detail, and with grit in only the places where the story calls for it. Both West and Anderson have shown their filmmaking prowess in the past years, Anderson having been DP for various productions including Alice Under Skies and West having completed a variety of short films including Ritual, which won best sophomore film at last year’s Juried show. The video for “Music Box” plans to shoot the weekend of April 17 and will have a rough cut by the end of the semester. Maya Spectra will be playing at this year’s OVF as apart of an interactive live-music installation—the first of its kind at OVF and will also be performing at Quad Stock the same weekend. The band is also a contender for Best of Santa Fe. Click here to...
Garbage Body
posted by admin
Shelby Criswell presents the latest in the Awkward Shelby comic series: “Garbage Body.”
Tattoos and shoes
posted by Rene Bjorheim
This week, Jackalope photographers capture the shoes and tattoos of the student body at SFUAD.
Q/A w/ Nick Martinez
posted by Jacey Ellis
Jackalope’s ongoing interview series with members of CWL’s senior reading class continues: This week, Nick Martinez in advance of the 7 p.m., April 14 senior reading.
Meow Wolf Presentation Draws Students
posted by Zoe Baillargeon
Meow Wolf’s newest project, The House of Eternal Return, includes numerous internship opportunities for SFUAD students.
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