MADDIE HUDDLE
Maddie Huddle is a graduating senior in the Communication Arts Department. When she’s not working towards becoming a successful gallery artist, she struggles to vanquish the forces of darkness. She’s kind of a big deal. BRENNAN CHAMBRE
Brennan Chambre is a senior at VCU and a pagebuilding intern for Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. He will be graduating this spring with a degree in English and a minor in Creative Writing and will be studying Nonfiction in the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh this fall. ISHAN BOSE
Ishan’s first love was traveling. He plans to live in New York one day and be fluent in at least four languages. JAMAL STONE
Jamal Stone is an eligible Bachelor of Arts seeking a fun new lifestyle. Do you have health benefits and comfy chairs? Please respond. RAQUELA HAMMAN
Raquela is a South-African born freshman in VCU’s Art Foundation program, planning on going on into either Graphic Design or Communication Arts. She has been an artist from a very young age, following the hobby footprints of various family members. HEATHER HUDGINS
Heather Hudgins is a Creative Advertising student minoring in Creative Writing (she subconsciously did this so that her diploma will say “creative” on it as many times as possible.) She has written two books, one called Party Girl Broken, and a sequel, October, both of which were very, very, very limited release. In addition, she wrote a digital zine in 2014 called Vast Majority. Heather has also published work in a variety of mediums, including the zine What Kind of Trouble?
and USA Today College. Heather likes hanging out with friends, the color pink, having a lot of opinions and glitter. TAYLOR JANAY MANIGOULT
Taylor Janay Manigoult is a Sophomore at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Although her major has yet to be decided, she will most likely study photography with a double major in social justice. Her passion is best spent helping those mistreated by oppressive forces; she does this by leading the student organization, Students for Social Action, and also by creating art work, visual and literary. Her mediums of expression range from acrylic to found objects, and from film to short, silly poems written in graphite. Lately, Taylor spends her time reading, eating donuts, and scribbling ideas on to loose sheets of paper that have accumulated into unhealthy collections of used napkins and old receipts. BRAD EISENHAUER
He is eighteen years old, and originally from Mount Airy, Maryland. The mediums he enjoys working in most are photography and collage. SKYE YOUNG
Skye Young will be an alumni of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Communication Arts department with a concentration in Scientific and Preparatory Medical Illustration and a minor in Biology in Spring of 2015. She had the pleasure of interning as an illustrator in the Botany Department of the Natural Museum of Natural History in DC and is currently applying to graduate schools in order to pursue a career in scientific/medical illustration. ELISE KETCH
Elise is an Honors and Art Foundations student and prospective Communication Art major. Her favorite medium is acrylic. Though most of her life is centered around creating, viewing, and talking about art, in
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