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Summer 2008 Issue

Art has many muses and outlets. From family adventures and quarrels to secrets—both good and bad—art allows us to step into the mind of the author or artist. For a few moments, we are transported to a life not our own, perhaps similar or maybe more different than we ever thought possible.

The authors and artists in the Summer 2008 issue of the Ink-Filled Page have drawn from multiple muses and methods—many of them masters of both the pen and the brush—and their collective talent is drawn together here to present you with one masterpiece. Enjoy.

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Summer 2008 Contributors

Author Bios

Alana Cash is an award-winning short story author and documentary filmmaker (http://vibegirlproductions.net). She taught writing at the University of Texas Informal Classes and privately and was one of sixty U.S. teachers chosen to be profiled on the PBS series on expository writing. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her cats, Bob Ling and Agnes Hershkovitz, and occasionally contributes to a political blog.

Sahag Gureghian has been a writer since the age of five, when he would adapt fairy tales into his own unique stories. In the fifth grade, he was the only one in class to complete a creative writing assignment correctly, and knew he was destined to become a writer.

Sahag took his passion for writing to California State University, Northridge, where he received a double BA in both creative writing and screenwriting. He is currently attending San Diego’s National University for an MFA in creative writing. Sahag hopes to teach creative writing in the near future.

Jonathan Willard is a forty-year old humanoid—quite handsome, actually. He lives in a beach community near New York with Judi, Max, and Daisy, and wakes up many mornings feeling like the proverbial cat that swallowed the canary (no offense to the canary community here and abroad). His paintings have been widely exhibited and can be seen at www.jonathanwillard.com. He makes hay as a communications strategy and change management consultant to some of the world’s most recognized and inspiring organizations. He has strangely enjoyed this exercise of describing himself in the third person and looks forward to supporting Bob Dole’s campaign to banish the first person once and for all!

Artist Bios

Kelley Brox has always loved to paint. From finger paints as a child to oils and acrylics now as a young adult, this Portland native has always made time for her passion. Her first encounters with structured art education were in high school at La Salle, which gave her the opportunity to develop her creative skills as an independent study student and compete in state art competitions.

In college at Western Washington University, she was accepted into the art program but chose to pursue a degree in international business and Spanish due to her interests in travel, culture, and entrepreneurialism. After Kelley graduated in 2006, she moved home and currently works in Portland, Oregon. Besides painting, she enjoys fly fishing, snowboarding, cooking, camping, boating, and spending time with her family and friends.

Bekah Dinnerstein is a New York artist. Her piece included here is part of a larger project she made and hung on a laundry line to express her experience as a young woman being raped and to explore a woman’s place in her body and in the world.

When Amelia Harnas was born they put a blue-and-white sticker on her forehead proclaiming: Future Artist. When she was thirteen or fourteen, her eyes were suddenly huge when her glasses were no longer needed and she spent the day in one room with her watercolor palette and mixed tape after mixed tape. When she was twenty-five, she lit a fire on the carpet of her brain using old letters never sent, saving only the cut-up photographs, and then she finally started cooking. This was the turning point—but it happened so recently that the rest dangles nebulously unwritable.

Sarah Hicks grew up in Kent, England, along the southeast coast. She began painting at a very early age. After winning the sixth form art prize and the Sheila Marshall Award from the Thanet Decorative and Fine Arts Society, she soon realized her love and talent for the arts. She then went on to study at Arizona State University where she received a bachelor of fine arts degree in printmaking. Color, line, and mark making are the subject of her abstract paintings. The uses of simple geometric shapes express the impressions and feelings of the scene or point she tries to portray.

Brenna Ivanhoe graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in the spring of 2006 with a BFA in studio art. She has also studied art in London at Slade School of Art, and in Orvieto through the New York Studio School. She has exhibited her work at several Pittsburgh galleries, including ModernFormations and The Frame. At ModernFormations, she curated and exhibited work in the group show A Mnemonic Device, funded through the SURG Fellowship. Her work settles in between reality and abstraction, some paintings completely diverging from the original image. She uses the paint and canvas to unearth a place where all people connect, independent of conventional beliefs, physical traits, and geography. She currently resides in Syracuse as a practicing artist.

Joe Kavitski is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and musician interested in the concept of creating an all-encompassing sensory experience. As a boy, he picked up the addictive medication of painting, yet somehow managed to graduate from Ithaca College in 2006. He won several awards for his thesis film, Surrendering Serendipity: A Rock Opera (30 min., 16mm) in the process. When Joe isn’t creating, he enjoys weightlifting, beautiful women, philosophical conversation, philosophical conversation with beautiful women, and drumming for bands Leeched and Marlene’s Secretary. He recently completed writing his first novel.

Kimberly van Riper is an Arizona artist who found her beginnings on her parents’ ranch outside of Sacramento, California. She always had a propensity for art, and even as early as six years of age, worked with oil pastels, watercolors, and calligraphy. Her international travels include Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, South Africa, Ireland, England, and Slovakia, giving Kim a unique and broad insight into issues that cross cultural boundaries, as well as different interpretations of art in different regions.

Driven by her passion for the arts, Kim decided to attend Arizona State University for a degree in fine arts. Whether painting or drawing from life or from imagination, the art that Kim produces is innovative, unique, and striking. She works in many genres of art, taking some of the best qualities from masters past, and integrates them into works of art, which fall in a space between the general categories of art. Cubism, abstract, realism, figural, and surrealism influences are apparent in nearly all of her work. She aligns with the belief that “To stimulate is to influence, and influence produces change, both on the individual and the social level. As an artist, I strive to entertain, satisfy, and evoke emotions from the viewers through use of the elements of art. I produce art that distracts viewers from reality long enough to allow them to reset their perspective, and when they walk away, that they do so with more than what they came with.”