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	<title>The Ledger Line</title>
	<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org</link>
	<description>An Online Journal for the Arts</description>
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		<title>Group Photo</title>
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Back Row from Left to Right:  Meghan Judge, Johannah O&#8217;Keefe, Courtney Woodburn
Front from Left to Right: Sam Protich, John Schell, (Not Pictured) Susannah Clark
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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/group-photo/</link>
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		<title>Chelsea Newnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chelsea Newnam is a junior English major with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Mary Washington. She believes in the power of poetry to change the world (a romantic idea maybe) and likes to think that maybe one day she’ll find a job that will pay her to encourage that belief in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/chelsea-newnam-2/</link>
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		<title>Chelsea Newnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[__________________________________________________________________
Hopper’s  Nighthawks, 1942
A stillness sweeps the street  into darkness
and we’re illuminated from  the inside, out.
The bar smiles through red
striations to greet elbows  with a light
kiss as my mug sputters to  empty.
I order another coffee, black.
Night eyes wander through the  window to black 
pavement, mirrored by stagnant  darkness.
The street [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/chelsea-newnam/</link>
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		<title>Madison Brennaman</title>
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Artist&#8217;s Work
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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/madison-brennaman-2/</link>
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		<title>Katie Toussaint</title>
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Toussaint comes from Charlotte,  North Carolina, and currently studies at the University of Richmond.
Toussaint on “Unseen”:
“The piece conveys an episode  of musical expression that touches on the theme of crossing genre lines,  as the abstractions of sound and personal perception of the self are  brought to visual awareness through the art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/katie-toussaint/</link>
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		<title>Gregory Stenta</title>
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Artist Statement
Stenta writes:
“Poetry has always been a  part of my life; it’s familiar to me.  I prefer to write about love,  and aspire to say something new about the subject.  I’ve been described  by a fellow UMass-Boston MFA student as a ‘love poet.’ However,  I’ve also written about such topics as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/gregory-stenta-2/</link>
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		<title>Timothy Schulz</title>
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Schulz writes:
“‘Monolith and Remnant’  is based on my reflection of a ceramic art piece titled ‘Coetaneous  Stasis’ by Matthew McConnell of the University of Colorado at Boulder.   I reflected upon this piece as it was presented in the gallery ‘NCECA:  Regional Student Juried Exhibition from the National Council on Education  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/timothy-schulz-2/</link>
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		<title>Ellen Ferrante</title>
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Bio:
Ellen Ferrante is a student  at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, majoring  in English.  She lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Artist&#8217;s Work
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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/ellen-ferrante-2/</link>
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		<title>Michael Morley</title>
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Morley on “Meet the Horsey…”:
“This piece was composed  and processed using the Roland MC303 and the Roland SP-808, melding  samples from The Valley of the Dolls and Multiple Maniacs.
“The piece needs no explanation.  It is a very simple dance track. Just fun and interesting sounds arranged  together. It was created in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/michael-morley-2/</link>
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		<title>Forrest Marquisee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forrest Marquisee is a student  at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.   Aptly enough, he majors in both music and environmental science.
Marquisee on “Waking up…”:
“‘Waking up in the Middle  of the Night’ was created in Fall 2008. It was performed with a computer  synthesizer and a violin. Both instruments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/forrest-marquisee/</link>
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		<title>Teresa A. Shillingford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shillingford writes:
“‘Abide Not’ is a 2’x  3” wall sculpture created out of wood, plaster, and photographs.  It  is a visual representation of the destructive nature of hateful, spoken  words.  Viewers witness this physical deterioration as their eyes glide  from the top of the sculpture, down to the shredded bottom.   ‘Abide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/teresa-a-shillingford-2/</link>
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		<title>Retta Robbins</title>
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Bio and Artist Statement
Robbins has studied at the Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU), Johns Hopkins, and NYU and
in Firenze, Paris and Kyoto, and has in turn taught art for many years. Her studio can be found at Libertytown Arts Workshop in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Robbins on her outlook and the work it informs:
“My exhibit – Politics · [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/retta-robbins-2/</link>
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		<title>Gabriel Pons</title>
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Artist Bio 
Gabriel earned his bachelor’s  degree in Architecture from Virginia Tech in 1997.  While working in  the architecture profession, he continued to explore painting and collage  on canvas and in sketchbooks.  His sketchbook work exemplifies his interest  in creating abstract environments inhabited by fictional characters  and iconography.  Found images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/gabriel-pons-2/</link>
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		<title>Caitlyn Paley</title>
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Paley lives and studies in  Richmond, Virginia. Her work has also been published in the Moria Poetry  Journal. She is lucky to have the support and encouragement of her wonderful  family.
Paley on “Mariachi “:
“‘Mariachi’ is one of  the only love poems I have written. It is dedicated to Derek Miller.  This piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/caitlyn-paley-2/</link>
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		<title>Allie Atkeson</title>
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Atkeson writes:
“My art helps me define the  way I see things and answer how mediums behave with one another. I see  shape, value, juxtaposition&#8211; themes that emerge from my work. With  a special interest in glass, cutouts, and light sources, I tend to work  with mixed media in unconventional ways.”
Atkeson, about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/allie-atkeson-2/</link>
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		<title>Joseph Di Bella</title>
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Joseph Di Bella, Distinguished  Professor of Art, has taught at the University of Mary Washington since  1977. He served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History from  1990 to 1993 and 1996 to 1999 and Director of University Galleries from  1983 to 1988. He was instrumental in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/joseph-di-bella/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Carole Garmon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carole  Garmon, Assistant Professor of Art, has taught at the University of  Mary Washington since 1998 and received the Alumni Association Outstanding  Young Faculty Member Award in 2002. She holds a B.F.A. and an M.F.A.  in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and has participated  in national and international exhibitions. Garmon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/interview-with-carole-garmon/</link>
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		<title>Charlie Devine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sycamore&#8221;

Jordan Bloom plays fiddle and  mandolin. Emily Harris plays cello.  Devine plays all other instruments  on this recording, which he describes as a sonic equivalent of old-country-road  movie imagery.
Bio:
Devine is a student at the  University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  He  plays a number of instruments, but shows a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/charlie-devine/</link>
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		<title>Forrest Marquisee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Forrest Marquisee is a student  at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.   Aptly enough, he majors in both music and environmental science.
Marquisee on “Waking up…”:
“‘Waking up in the Middle  of the Night’ was created in Fall 2008. It was performed with a computer  synthesizer and a violin. Both instruments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/forest-marquisee/</link>
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		<title>Michael Morley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Morley on “Meet the Horsey…”:
“This piece was composed  and processed using the Roland MC303 and the Roland SP-808, melding  samples from The Valley of the Dolls and Multiple Maniacs.
“The piece needs no explanation.  It is a very simple dance track. Just fun and interesting sounds arranged  together. It was created in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/michael-morley/</link>
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		<title>Madison Brennaman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Poem Compiled from Learning ICQ Chatbot Logs After Being Spammed with Bits of Romance Poetry and Nonsense
Whilst she falls madly through these silly questions,
do you ride a blowpipe is spouting off nonsense,
but we can&#8217;t let our crowds be fed on the floor.
The nerves are important questions.
Soon it hits my brain,
deep
and that&#8217;s the hills wondering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/madison-brennaman/</link>
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		<title>Ellen Ferrante</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;
An Ode to &#8220;La Vie en Rose&#8221;
Hold me close and hold me fast
hazy as thick summer air
the magic spell you cast
that&#8217;s sweet and unaware,
this is la vie en rose
&#8230;yet only for a moment.
When you kiss me heaven sighs-
daylight setting into night,
and though I close my eyes,
the moon small, yet so bright
I see la vie en [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/ellen-ferrante/</link>
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		<title>Timothy Schulz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





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Monolith and Remnant
Gilded girders kris a cross,
razing from nature,
a telecom tower
of rooting power.
It stands a man-made capital,
a violent vacation of nature,
firmly faceted to outlast thyme.
But nature is also steadfast.
51 carrion crows caw,
settled at the spire.
The murder awaits.
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Immersed
Physically formed, thick thought  surrounds her.
Consciousness caught, time ticks  mulling by.
Steeping , submerged     in the viscous emulsion of dream.
Lullingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/timothy-schulz/</link>
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		<title>Gregory Stenta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



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A Dialogue on Egon Schiele&#8217;s Painting, Embrace (Lovers II)
In the art book, Schiele looks like he&#8217;s eating his wife&#8217;s
ear!  Man and wife have their eyes closed; their eyes
shut, perhaps, as they have nowhere else they want
to look.  The editors of the book say of the painting:
&#8220;No one is watching or aware of being watched.&#8221;
Looking down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/gregory-stenta/</link>
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		<title>Allie Atkeson</title>
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Atkeson, about “More Light”:
“How does light act? &#8220;More  Light&#8221; incorporates paper cutouts and a light source to form a  mixed media piece. Usually, light functions to increase the value of  an area. The piece reinvents the use of light by allowing it to create  shadows and areas of high and low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/allie-atkeson/</link>
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		<title>Bob Bumgarner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Guitar1



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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/bob-bumgarner/</link>
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		<title>Joseph Di Bella</title>
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Di Bella on “Beneath the Mount #2” :
“This  is one piece from a suite of ten works on themes of history, ethnicity  and culture situated in a particular place: Sicily and the slope of  the volcano, Mount Etna. Verses from Salvatore Quasimodo’s poetry  interlace diptych halves. These mixed media works are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/joseph-dibella/</link>
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		<title>Robert Landeck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://landeckart.com/

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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/robert-landeck/</link>
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		<title>Caitlyn Paley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Artist Bio
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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/caitlyn-paley/</link>
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		<title>Gabriel Pons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   
 


Artist Bio
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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/gabriel-pons/</link>
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		<title>Retta Robbins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
“‘Rumsfeld’s Mouths’  is my response to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon  briefings during the Iraq War, which were a form of ‘non[sense]-speak’  last seen in Orwell’s 1984.”
Artist Bio 
 
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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/retta-robbins/</link>
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		<title>Teresa A. Shillingford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Artist Statement



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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/teresa-a-shillingford/</link>
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		<title>Katie Toussaint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

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Unseen
Draping the bow across the  strings, your fingertips shiver
With vibrato and your melody  pours
Onto the stage.
It washes over the whorled  surface to spin
And break against the walls,  spilling
Into the audience.  You  stand in the pool
Of stage light as glints of  amber catch in your strings.
You almost smile.
But your memory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/katie-toussaint-immersed/</link>
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		<title>Image Lightbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Front:

Back:

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		<link>http://theledgerline.umwblogs.org/image-lightbox/</link>
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