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Shazia Hafiz Ramji received a 2023 Critic’s Desk Award from _Arc Poetry Magazine_ and was a finalist for the 2023 Alberta Magazine Awards. She lives in western Canada and London, UK. Shazia is the author of _Port of Being_. 


This issue embraces the expansive nature of craft—focusing on the relationships among artists and their materials in conversation with lineage, embodied processes, function, survival, and life as it is lived. Many contributors elaborate on craft as perpetual motion: continually reformed bonds in the act of making that serve as proof of self-definition. Artists and writers explore the psychedelia of time devoted to a loom, material kinship, tea encounter, sentimentality as a curatorial drive, and more, following craft as it moves through families, diasporic realities, and markets of trade, tourism, and commercial art.


Craft

“up front w/” ran from 29 June to 26 August 2023 at Norberg Hall, Calgary. 


“up front w/” — Robin Arseneault, Nathan Eugene Carson, Mark Dicey, Marigold Santos

By now we understand extraction as the political-ontological basis for the circulation of resources under neoliberal capitalism—and that agents of such appropriation scarcely do enough to respect, heal, and replenish their sources. From sex work and old-growth forests to ghost towns and lost languages, this issue explores artistic and activist practices that interrogate an array of extractive efforts and attempt to demarcate non-extractive modalities. 

Extraction

“Letters for Occasions” ran from 29 January to 26 June 2022 at Esker Foundation, Calgary. 

"Letters for Occasions" - Farah Al Qasimi 

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Shazia Hafiz Ramji

“up front w/” — Robin Arseneault, Nathan Eugene Carson, Mark Dicey, Marigold Santos

"Letters for Occasions" - Farah Al Qasimi