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How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

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How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

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French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

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The class duration and order inconsistencies are illogical and stray from the normal schedule so much that they cause stress and confusion for some students and staff on where they are supposed to be at any given time. 

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Capitalism warps the incentive of producing art from something pure into making money.

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The entire album is riddled with heavy emotions, dealing with grief, the loss of control, police brutality and violence in the Black community.

The Loneliness of Masking

Though the mask mandate at NWA hasn’t been in effect for more than a year, some members of the community continue to cover up.

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The Art You Love

"How do others relate to our art?"

Void Of Course

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77th Street

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Those I Stand Upon and Other Poems

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A Collection of Folk Tales

For an artistic response prompt, students were asked to write mock-ups of modernized short stories inspired by classic folk tales such as “The Stubborn Child” by The Brothers Grimm.

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Death Poems

I will keep you on my wall And watch you burn Until hell freezes over.

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