Missfits Magazine: Issue 7

You have an internship this fall with Anthropologie! How did you land it, and why did you seek it out? I guess I just heard about Anthropologie's internships with college students through the Maryland Institute College of Art (I applied there, as well) and since I decided not to attend, I figured the least I could get out of it was learning about some of the things they offer their students and bring it upon myself to seek internships out! I called the Anthropologie in Portland and asked if they needed any interns for the Fall and sent them my portfolio. The rest will come together when I'm there in August, but hopefully this position will give me a lot of work and experience in design, 3D, building, and paying attention to detail.

What do you define as “art�? Gosh, golly, gee - I don't know. In the words of Sol LeWitt (and I use this quote every time), "All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art." It's hilarious because it doesn't define art at all and yet it does, 100%. Chew on that one for a while, will you?

You started a collaborative poetry blog called The Spoken Place. Where did your interest in poetry begin? What do you hope to accomplish through the blog? E.E. Cummings inspired me, ever since I read his poetry which, to the naive and untrained eye is esoteric and nonsensical. He gave me this strange feeling in my gut that poked at me and said, "Damn, where is he right now? What universe? Can I go there?" I wanted to be at his level and yet his level seemed attainable because he spoke raw truth and used unconventional placements of text and exclamation that I always just seemed to connect to. I've always been one for writing things in unconventional prose and I guess I channeled that into a more "serious" project my senior year when my best friend, Mia, finally decided to acknowledge how talented she was with her writing. We came upon starting this poetry blog so that anyone who writes can also record him/herself reading their poetry - sort of like a poetry slam, but on the Internet. We thought it would be a lovely conglomeration of feelings, words, and talent that would serve as an archive to document writers in a time and a place. We'll see where it goes!

Do you think being a young adult in today’s society has helped you grow as an artist? How so? Yes and no. I find that a lot of people (my age,