Holly Willis, Featured Artist

July 2025 | visual art

Water Still 25

Penobscot Bay Light

Holly Willis uses text and image to wonder how we might reimagine our relationship to the world, not as autonomous beings moving through isolated landscapes, but as embodied forces intimately enmeshed with the matter around us. These images capture sunlight and water from Penobscot Bay in Maine, shot with a camera that moves in tandem with these elemental forces.

Holly Willis

Holly Willis is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer whose work examines the materiality of the image within a broader context of new materialist philosophy and the histories of experimental film, video, and photography with the goal to design encounters with media that spark an embodied sense of curiosity and wonder. Using a variety of analog, digital, and computational image-making tools, Willis explores the ways in which we might reimagine our relationship to the world and its varied spaces and landscapes, not as independent beings moving through separate realms, but as transcorporeal forces enmeshed in dense relationships with the matter all around us. She asks if we can imagine the world not as some inert backdrop to human activity but as a dynamic array that we engage with in ongoing relations, how might we care for our world differently? Her body of work overall attempts to capture this sense of active matter, of sensation, and dynamism, and strives for what Anna Tsing, in The Mushroom at the End of the World, calls the “arts of noticing.”

Stephen Curtis Wilson

April 2025 | visual art

#3, Fred’s Shoe Repair

Wilson is a designer and photographer. Central Illinois has been his frame of reference for a lifetime. His well-seen perspective provides him with an intimate, unique notion of the artfulness of this region, quintessentially Midwestern. He was a medical and generalist photographer and writer in the healthcare and library science fields for 36 years. He received a BA from the University of Illinois and is an Illinois Artisan for Photography. You may view more of his work at stephencurtiswilson.com.

Tracey Dean Widelitz

April 2025 | visual art

Savannah’s Grace

Tracey Dean Widelitz is a published writer, poet, and photographer. She is the author of the published children’s book A Heavenly World. She is a proud mom to two incredibly creative daughters. Her poetry has been published in numerous Wingless Dreamer Anthologies. She was the Grand Winner of Wingless Dreamer’s “Dreamstones of Summer Poetry Contest” and was a top finalist in the “Field of Black Roses” Poetry Contest 2022. Her photographs appear in Months to Years, Camas, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Burningword, Poet’s Choice Anthology, Wild Roof Journal, Las Laguna Art Gallery, The Closed Eye Open, J Mane Gallery, and Light, Space & Time.

Megan Peralta

April 2025 | visual art

Spyglass

As a former newspaper writer and photographer, Megan Peralta often had front-row access to the excitement. For her, the perfect shot is always the unexpected “catch,” the moments the naked eye would miss. She and her wife live in the mountains of California with their menagerie of wildlife friends and semi-tamed dogs.

Jiyoo Nam

April 2025 | visual art

Flute Flurry

Jiyoo Nam, a junior at Korea International School, focuses on art, writing, and film. She creates videos that address social and personal themes, enhancing her skills in scriptwriting, camera usage, and Premiere Pro. Jiyoo is committed to advancing her creativity in both film and writing.

Moriah Hampton

April 2025 | visual art

Winter Overgrowth III

Winter Overgrowth IV

Moriah Hampton teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at SUNY Albany. Her fiction, poetry, and photography have been featured in Ponder Review, The Coachella Review, Arkana, Gargoyle Magazine, Poetry South, and other publications. Originally from the Southeast, she has Scottish and English ancestry and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is also on the autism spectrum.