Awkward Shelby is weekly comic created by SFUAD studio art major Shelby Criswell. For more of Criswell’s work, check out the Awkward Shelby Comic series and her Tumblr.

SFUAD Interim Performing Arts Chair Victor Talmadge discusses his acting career and his hopes for his student actors going forward.

Creative Writing senior Sara Malinowski reflects on why her New York Arts program internship with Blessed Unrest was a dream come true.

Meet Martha Eichenlaub-Padget, the master of Hungarian Eastern Eggs.

This semester, Jackalope staff member Sandra Schoenenstein will regularly profile interesting and accessible off-campus spots for students. This week’s pick is Iconik Coffee Roasters.

OVF 2014 may be several months away—but months of preparation are required for this growing, collaborative, multidisciplinary project.

Film School Associate Chair Paula Amanda’s ambition to build a professional film “hub” inside the Garson Studios has become reality. As of November, employees of Midthunder Casting, Cosmic Forces, 12FPS, and Film 4 Change have found their new offices packed with zealous film students and their supply of limited resources suddenly replenished by the equipment, expertise and passion of the Film School staff and their Film Biz Hub neighbors.

Shannon Elliott, head of SFUAD’s dance department, takes a deep breath, double checks her computer screen for details and lists off yet another event that the dance majors will be participating in this semester. Her plans to keep the dancers busy and give them performance opportunities has already taken off.

The renowned styles of Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) return in his latest cinemagraphic ride, Visitors, one of three films showing this week at The Screen.

In the first of a series of interviews with student bands at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Jackalope Magazine talked with the musicians from Venus and the Lion.

If you’ve walked around campus in the past week, you may have seen a string of gold-lettered graffiti tags reading “SOLID GOLD CLIT” on various buildings and structures. A movement started by artist Sophia Wallace, the “SGC” tags themselves(the most “controversial” of which were on the Shepard Fairey mural on the quad) were spread around campus by an unknown person(s). On  Jan. 19, a community fine of $250 was imposed on every resident living on campus. Both the tagging and the fine soon sparked strong responses on the Student Life Facebook page. Initially, the SFUAD student life Facebook page lit up with frustrated students voicing their concern with the fine. Eventually, the comments turned bitter over the entire situation, with some students calling out their peers and staff members with rather heavy and hateful language. “People were running around campus trying to figure out who it was and people got really nasty on the Facebook page in terms of body-shaming (people saying clits,[which are] something as natural as an elbow, are dirty and inappropriate),” said Katie Collins via email. Collins, a sophomore film student, participated in Wallace’s discussion when the artist visited last semester. Once Wallace became aware of the situation, she posted a statement in support of the students to her Tumblr and Facebook page. In an email interview, Wallace told Jackalope that “There is a wonderful opportunity for SFUAD as an institution to be at the forefront…Whoever did the tagging put something into the public discourse that the entire society is telling them from a young age should never, ever be spoken of”…“Imagine if the ways your genitals are spoken of, and frequently are, almost exclusively to humiliate and shame. What is happening right now at SFUAD is powerful. I am excited to...

Awkward Shelby returns for Spring, 2014. This weekly comic is created by SFUAD studio art major Shelby Criswel. For more of Criswell’s work, check out the Awkward Shelby Comic series and her Tumblr....