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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Caleb Elijah Zweifler

By Mark | December 6, 2018

If you’re planning to attend the DIYpsi art fair this weekend, be sure to swing by the table of illustrator Caleb Zweifler, who, early next week, intends to hitchhike his way out of Ypsilanti, the town that he’s called home for the past decade. Following is his official Ypsilanti exit interview. MARK: What’s your full […]

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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Rita Jane Riggs

By Mark | August 2, 2015

At the end of August, one of my favorite Ypsilanti artists, Rita Jane Riggs, will be packing up and heading west to see what the universe has in store for her. Please join me in wishing her well on her journey. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsilanti, or were you born here? RITA: I […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Albuquerque, angels, animal spirits, astrology, Bee Roll, Binkie, blankets, blood, Breaking Bad, Buddha, cartoons, Deja Vu, Demons, Dreamland Theater, eastern religion, EMU, exit interviews, extraterrestrials, fairies, First Fridays, ghosts, God, halos, hamsters, Huron River, iconography, illustration, innocence, Jesus, Krishna, Mary, meth, multidimensional realities, New Mexico, Normal Park, painting, plant spirits, psychic abilities, rats, reincarnation, religion, religious icons, Richard Brautigan, Rita Jane Riggs, Robert Spier, saints, sausage gravy, spirit guides, spiritual practice, stripping, T- Hardy Morris, tarot, Video Games, vulnerability, watermelon, watermelon sugar, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 8 Comments

Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with humankind’s most important artists… Episode 7: Chris Hyndman

By Mark | March 3, 2015

For this, the seventh in the Art, Food, Sex and Trauma series, I’ve decided to reach out to my friend teaching art at Eastern Michigan University, can generally be found painting wonderfully complex fox-head-covered tartan patterns on canvas in his Chicago studio. MARK: You’re a Canadian, right? CHRIS: Yes, I’m a Permanent Resident of the […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anthropomorphic textiles, art food sex and trauma, Canada, Canadians, cartoons, Chris Hyndman, Degrassi Junior High, dogs, Dudley Do-Right, Eastern Michigan University, eyeballs, flannel, fox heads, greed cards, hands, lobster, No-Touching Zone, painters, paintings, plaid, Steve Sabados, tangrams, tartan patterns, textiles | 4 Comments

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