Full Bleed exists to cultivate that fertile ground where the visual and literary arts intersect. Published annually in print and online by the Maryland Institute College of Art, our journal strives to inspire, critique, and inform the pursuits of contemporary artists and writers. We do so with the belief that aesthetic experience—those intuitive stirrings, intimacies, and insights engendered by concentrated encounters with works of art and literature—is favorable to the cause of human dignity, within individual lives and within our politics.
Because our world is syncretic, characterized by intercultural exchange, flux, and strife, the pages of our journal are eclectic. They are welcoming of many points of view and formal approaches, open to controversy, and responsive to shifting cultural conditions. In each issue, we hope to chronicle the diverse ways that visual and literary artists are participating in this tumultuous historical moment.
We publish criticism, belle-lettres, visual art, illustration, fiction, poetry, and graphic essays. We are especially interested in promoting innovative projects combining word, image, and design; collaborations between writers and artists; ekphrastic creations; and groundbreaking critical essays.
Full Bleed is designed and produced by participants in Publishing Culture, an upper-level practicum for graduate and undergraduate students at MICA.
We are a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazine and Presses, which cited the journal as a finalist for a 2019 Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine.
Advisory Board
Abdul Ali, Louis Block, Mikita Brottman, Marcus Civin, Terence Hannum, Kerr Houston, Tanja Langer, Sara Lautman, Ellen Lupton, Rael Salley, Lynn Silverman, Rob Walker, Jennifer Wallace, Wendy S. Walters
Issue 8 Team
Editorial
Editor: Paul Jaskunas
Design Director: Jenny Rosenberg
Poetry Editors: Amy Eisner & Jennifer Wallace
Art Editor: Lynn Silverman
Associate Editors: Nic F. Amsel, Chance Azevedo, Nicole Bachman, Damian Booth, Nuo Chen, Sage Freed, Sylvia Huang, Wes Jordan, Cindy Kim, Amber Likins, Nancy Lu, Juan Lucas, Dhanviee Misra, Kenny Moss, Cecil Sekera, Nachiket Sharma, Grady Williams, McKenna Wilson, Lev Zhang
Associate Designers: Jin Cho, Dylan Condon, Wen He, Joowon Jang, Lawryn Johnson, Yuyin Liu, Danny Meade, Ngan Claire Nguyen, Maksmilian Rychlicki, Natalie Tapia Rojas, ao, Wenhui Zhang, Nine Zhao
Publishing
Project Lead, Creative Entrepreneurship: Stephen Rueff
Faculty Marketing Advisor: Ayisha Thompson
Marketing Team: Baslel Addisu, Gaby Aguilar-Corado, Shweta Balakrishnan, Rain Evans, Nastia Honcharenko, DeAnna Jennings, Ashley Keister, Ein Tolentino Jaden Mesa, Kira Vroman-Lucas
Faculty Fundraising Advisor: Andrew Copeland
Fundraising Team: Carley Bran, Rain Evans, Carola Gonzalez, Yuxin Qian, Phoenix Shelton, Mashal Zahra
Administrative and financial support for Full Bleed is provided by the Liberal Arts Division, the Graphic Design Department, and the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. We thank Kristian Bjornard, Graphic Design chair; Jenny Carson, Art History chair; Al Orr, Humanistic Studies chair; and Michael Weiss, dean of Undergraduate Studies, for their assistance.