Letter from the Editors
December 2, 2024
Text by Nina Vichayapai, Lou Blumberg, Clara Harlow
Can a place be a mentor? How about a disagreement? What can we learn from a beloved daily practice like singing or swimming? This fall we kick off the school year by paying homage to our teachers, be they people, moments, movements, or dilemmas.
In this issue we meet a swim enthusiast and zine fanatic who help us see our hobbies as sites for artistic research. We reconnect with close friends and mentors both old and new who show us how their practices in music, photography, or shared cultural experiences provide a fresh lens in which to investigate this moment in time. A security guard and a cultural worker whose understandings of the world differ from many of our own invite us to clarify our own views and revision the world we want to live in.
These exchanges seem to suggest that the deepest lessons are often happening outside of the classroom altogether, in places we might least expect. So as long as we keep paying attention and asking questions, we’ll never run out of opportunities to learn more about ourselves and each other. Which then begs the question: Who taught you something today?
Your editors,
Nina Vichayapai, Lou Blumberg, Clara Harlow
