Shinique Smith, Stargazer, detail, 2022.

Full Bleed 06

The materials issue

Our new issue includes work by over three dozen artists, poets, essayists, and fiction writers. Their contributions explore the aesthetic potential of all manner of materials—from traditional media like bronze and textiles to living organisms like algae and fungi, to the stuff of daily life—lottery cards, laundry, and spoons. The issue also features the fruits of our recent collaboration with the Phillips Collection--a showcase of ekphrastic poetry by DC-area writers inspired by Pour, Tear, Carve, an exhibition at the museum that considers how materials act as conduits of meaning. Enjoy, and thank you for reading!

ABOUT FULL BLEED

 Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. Published annually in print and online by the Maryland Institute College of Art, our journal strives to inspire, critique, and inform the pursuits of contemporary artists and writers. We do so with the belief that aesthetic experience—those intuitive stirrings, intimacies, and insights engendered by concentrated encounters with works of art and literature—is favorable to the cause of human dignity, within individual lives and within our politics.

FEATURED WORK FROM PAST ISSUES