the 2023 editorial team:
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Magazine Staff
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Literary Art Selections
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Visual Art Selections
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Performance Art Selections
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Join Our Team
To join our team as a student editor or designer and help to create our next volume, enroll in any or all Arts Magazine Publication courses at LCC: Humanities 124, 125, and 126. These courses fulfill Humanities requirements for various degree and career pathways; students are welcome to join during any quarter of the academic year and are encouraged to apply for the magazine staff positions, as well. Inquiries to: Amber Lemiere, [email protected].
To join our team as a student editor or designer and help to create our next volume, enroll in any or all Arts Magazine Publication courses at LCC: Humanities 124, 125, and 126. These courses fulfill Humanities requirements for various degree and career pathways; students are welcome to join during any quarter of the academic year and are encouraged to apply for the magazine staff positions, as well. Inquiries to: Amber Lemiere, [email protected].
notes from the editors:
dear readers,
Thank you for picking up our magazine, it's been a year-long project built on a foundation of twenty-three years of other artists' work. I'm grateful I've had the opportunity to work with this team, the continuation of this free art collection would not have been possible without their hard work and effort. It's important to me that art continues to play a role in the culture and community at LCC, and I urge anyone to submit their work for next year's book. Anyone who offered their art to be judged and selected by a group of strangers should be incredibly proud of themself--thank you for offering us a piece of yourself. Thank you as a reader for your continued support; we wouldn't be here without you. -Max
These last several months of taking in art and literature--created not by some distant, famous, inaccessible artist or poet from afar, but by my peers and community members--has taught me something: making art isn't easy. I've never been much of an artist myself; I just can't seem to make my hands obey with a brush or pen in them, nor have I found the courage to bring forth the words buried deep in my soul and put them on a page. Every piece of art, whether written, painted, sculpted, splattered, blotted, drawn, danced, sung, played, or created with technology, requires years of practice and perfecting, and perhaps the most difficult of all: conquering that harsh critic in the mind, the one that is always telling us we're not enough and convoluting the joy of our own creations. I know I've heard that voice, every time I try to put my heart in the ink and bring pen to the page. But these artists and writers are far more valiant than I am, and I am amazed that they took the chance and trusted us with their work. It could not have been easy. They motivate me to tell the cruel whispers within: it's time to be quiet now and let me create. I hope you let their courage inspire you to silence those whispers, too. Maybe you'll be featured in some future volume of Salal, inspiring the next group of daring artists to continue creating and sharing their work and the bits of soul buried within. -Jenn
When it comes to something like art, it's easy to fall into romantic stereotypes. To expect poetry of love, and paintings of landscapes. We want art to be happy because we want to be happy, but honestly, many of the greatest works come from places of great loss and sorrow. Being a part of Salal's first year back from the shutdown, we on the editorial board have definitely been learning this lesson: to allow art to be upsetting. We share in sadness, but we experience happiness in isolation and, in validating the community, we have to acknowledge the darker subjects that we received, both published and unpublished. -Zoey