About the magazine

On the cover:

This work from the Monochrome series by artist Tammi Campbell (BFA’99) masquerades as something mundane, but each element—tape and cardboard—is skillfully sculpted from acrylic paint. Read more about how Campbell is pushing her medium into unexpected forms in our feature "Material deceit." (Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with Corrugated Cardboard and Tan Packing Tape, 2017. Acrylic on linen.)

Shannon Boklaschuk (BA’00, MPA’14) works in communications in the College of Arts & Science and as the arts and entertainment writer for the Saskatoon Express. She completed bachelor’s degrees in women’s and gender studies and journalism at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of King’s College in Halifax, respectively, as well as a master’s degree at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the U of S.

Allan Casey (BA’86) has written for a wide range of publications, from Adbusters to Reader’s Digest to The Walrus. He has won many Western Magazine Awards, a National Magazine Award for Environmental Reporting and the inaugural Science Journalism Award from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. His book Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country won the 2010 Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He lives in Saskatoon.

Colleen MacPherson is a freelance writer and editor in Saskatoon. Her journalism career began in 1977 at the Prince Albert Daily Herald, and her work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines over the years. Colleen was editor of On Campus News at the U of S for 15 years.

Christopher Putnam (BA’07) worked as a reporter in Saskatchewan weekly newspapers, a researcher in crime television and an online writer before joining the College of Arts & Science as a communications officer. He completed bachelor’s degrees in English at the U of S and in journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax.

Betsy Rosenwald recently left the College of Arts & Science after 10 years as a communications officer to pursue her artwork full-time. She has designed, edited and written for many publications, including a six-year stint as art editor for the literary magazine Grain. She earned a BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin and an MFA from Brooklyn College in New York.

Mari-Lou Rowley is a poet, science writer and PhD candidate at the U of S. She has published nine collections of poetry, most recently Unus Mundus (Anvil Press), which was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her interdisciplinary PhD research is on social media, neuro-phenomenology and empathy.