New Work by Contributor Maggie Messitt
Check out new work by Broad Street contributor Maggie Messitt, whose essay “Ukufa” appears in our current issue, Hunt, Gather. In “North 20°54, West 156°14,” newly posted at the Bending Genre blog, Messitt traces the mystery of a disappeared aunt through a series of maps, both real and virtual. Surveying the maps tacked to her...
“Barrow, Alaska” Photographer Wins Recognition
Congratulations to photographer Dawn Whitmore, whose photo essay on Barrow, Alaska, is a centerpiece of Broad Street’s “Hunt, Gather” issue. Whitmore recently was awarded second place in the 2014 Photo Review Competition, juried by by Jennifer Blessing, senior curator of photography for the Guggenheim Museum of Art. Her winning work will be exhibited at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia from October 31-December 5....
Staging Theater on Broad Street in Richmond
Broad Street magazine’s namesake “has been the center of Richmond since its creation,” according to the blog Mapping American History, which also notes that “the structural diversity [of Richmond], especially found on Broad Street, was a result of the constant adaptation of the city and its need to acclimate to the changing times.” After Fire...
Michael Hearst’s ‘Unusual Creatures’ Wins a Telly
Michael Hearst‘s “Unusual Creatures” project for PBS Digital Studios has received a Telly Award for excellence in online feature production! In November, we wrote about the project, which involves pairing sound, text, and video with various abnormal animals. Most of Hearst’s work involves marrying visual art and music. Hearst is the founding member of the...
AWP 2014 – Day Two and a Half
We had the chance to catch up with author Phillip Lopate after his panel, “The I or the Eye: The Narrator’s Role in Nonfiction,” and spoke briefly about his experience at Virginia Commonwealth University as a visiting professor. He had many kind things to say about Richmond, the students, and some compliments toward Broad Street as...
