Summer 2026
Cover by Kayla Staigvil
Featured Artists
Cover Artist
Kayla Staigvil
Kayla Staigvil is an artist residing in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her MFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Metal Design at East Carolina University in 2016. Kayla also received a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2013 with a concentration in metalsmithing and jewelry design. Kayla specializes in traditional silversmithing techniques and often incorporates found objects into her work along with gemstones and pearls. Besides making jewelry, Kayla enjoys a variety of other media like painting, is an avid baker, and loves to read fantasy books.
To our knowledge, none of the art featured in this issue has been created using generative AI.
Issue Art, listed in order of appearance:
- Winold Reiss. Twelve Months of the Year woodblock print portfolio. Print for November, huge male head with frosty locks arching above plowed fields and bare trees. 1923. Winold Reiss Collection, Library of Congress.
- The Gribler Bank Note Co. from photo by Bakers Art Gallery. “Get fat on Lorings Fat-ten-u and corpula foods.” 1895. American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05.
- Refuges dining on Franklin Street near Fulton. Photograph. San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake. California Historical Society, San Francisco.
- Mrs Smead. “A Typical Example of ‘Spirit Writing’.” 1909. From Are the DeadAlive? Internet Archive/Library of Congress.
