Author: Artist Clare Halpine

Clare Halpine's work fuses broader political themes through personal humor. As an artist, writer and filmmaker, she is interested in humor and performance as a means to negotiating the anxiety of the personal and political status quo. Born and raised in Canada, Clare received her BFA from Mount Allison University in 2009 and my MFA from the University of Washington in 2017. Her work has been recently shown at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, and at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York City.

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Love Sick by Charlotte Wilkins

Thoreau went to the woods to live deliberately, an elemental life not “frittered away by detail.” He wrote about the essentials of life, “I do believe in simpli...

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Lies My Mother Told Me / Lies I Told My Mother by Daniel Uncapher

You must go to school. I’m too sick to go to school! I have eyes on the back of my head. I missed the bus! We can’t afford cable. I wasn’t watching TV!