HA&L magazine issue fourteen.1

HA&L magazine issue fourteen.1 cover

 

HA&L 13th Anniversary issue


THE HAMMER

 

Portfolio by David Brace. Painting of a colonial Statue on Fire.
A Portfolio of work by David Brace • Painting detail: Statue on Fire

Photo essay by Jeff Tessier: Boubie's Things in memory of Marian James. Photo of a red tomato pin cushion
Photo essay by Jeff Tessier • Boubie's Things in memory of Marian James

Plaid Is The New Black (A Covid Chronicle) by Stephanie Lewis. Image of a swatch of plaid and a myna bird
Plaid Is  The New Black (A Covid Chronicle) by Stephanie Lewis

Painting of the view from the Hamilton Mountain in 1854.
The Middle Way of William A. Stephens • by Jeffery Donaldson • Image detail: From the Mountain, 1854 by E. Whitefield

Comic: Signs of Covid-19 by Nicola Winstanley. Sketch of a trendy shop with the words: into the Abyss
Comic: Signs of Covid-19 by Nicola Winstanley

Five Covid Comics by Gord Pullar. Drawing of a girl and a skeleton walking into a grave
Five Covid Comics by Gord Pullar

FACTORY TIME by Maxwell Kennel. Drawing detail: Machine by Gord Pullar.
FACTORY TIME by Maxwell Kennel • Drawing detail: Machine by Gord Pullar.

All that is Left: 18 Poems on the 50th Anniversary of Whitehern Museum by Elizabeth Tessier. Photo courtesy of Whitehern Museum. Photo of members of the family on the front steps of the house.
All that is Left: 18 Poems on the 50th Anniversary of Whitehern Museum by Elizabeth Tessier • Photo courtesy of Whitehern Museum.

Woman with a Sketchbook Rae Hendershot [1921-1988] • by Rae Bates. Photo of a young Hendershot painting on a row boat.
Woman with a Sketchbook • Rae Hendershot [1921-1988] • by Rae Bates

Woman with a Sketchbook Rae Hendershot [1921-1988] • by Rae Bates. Photo of a young Hendershot painting on a row boat.
The Hammer Gallery (1990-95) • Denise Lisson & Jim Mullin •
Raucous, Rule-Breaking, Ground-breaking • by Janice Kovar & Paul Enright


Image of a record player with video still of a woman dancing.
Mike Hansen: Noise for the People by Earl Miller • Video still from Footlights

Colourful photo of light playing off of glass
when I see, I breathe light • Natalie Hunter at Smokestack • by Bart Gazzola

Detail image of a vintage fan blades in motion
Asfalyi, In Love by C. P. Boyko • Image detail: Engel Maschinen by Paul Lisson

Artwork: Sparrow Colourful painting of a landscape and sparrow by Terence Kinsella
Dennis Lee & the Ever-Green Child • by J.S. Porter • Artwork: Terence Kinsella

Photo of a storefront window with a closed sign by Angela Zheng
Portfolio: urban landscapes by Angela Zheng • Detail: Closed (Tucker Plus)

Pastel drawing of a factory in the rain seen from across the bay by Clarence Porter
Portfolio: steelVIEW by Clarence Porter • No8 - ICE & STEEL, pastel on panel.

Abstract drawing by Camille Nivera
A Memoir: My Life in Pieces by Peggyanne Mansfield (1945-2020) • Foreword by Daniel Coleman • Artwork detail: Dream Fragments by Camille Nivera

Photo of Bernadette rule, ArtWaves radio host
Art Waves: A History & Some Highlights by radio host Bernadette Rule

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Comic: Signs of Covid-19
by Nicola Winstanley

Plaid Is The New Black (A Covid Chronicle)
by Stephanie Lewis

The Middle Way of William A. Stephens:
the story of a poem about Hamilton
written in 1839

by Jeffery Donaldson

Portfolio:  Legislated Trauma
and the Covid Series

by David Brace 

Boubie's Things
A photo essay in memory of Marian James who died of COVID-19

by Jeff Tessier

The Hammer Gallery (1990-95)
Denise Lisson & Jim Mullin
Raucous, Rule-Breaking, Ground-breaking

by Janice Kovar & Paul Enright

Talking with Theresa Picone:
Picone Fine Food During COVID

by Jeff Mahoney

The Printed Word and Covid-19: An Interview with Bookseller James Mcdonald
by Michelle Findlater

Sketchbook: Lookout and
Turning 58 during a Pandemic

by David Collier

Five Covid Comics
by Gord Pullar

Short Film: Isolation
by Camille Kinsella

Oral History & The Pandemic:
Capturing the Human Experience

by Michelle Findlater

Postcard to Doug Ford
by Cees & Annerie van Gemerden

Hamilton's Basic Income Experience
by Mohammad Ferdosi, Wayne Lewchuk, Tom Mcdowell, and Stephanie Ross

Voices of Hamilton Arts:
Local Artists’ Lived Experiences and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Mahnoor Memon, Sowmithree Ragothaman & Sahanah Thirukumar

Keeping Six:
Open Letter to Doug Ford,
Mayor Eisenberger, and
the community of Hamilton

by Kelly Wolf

Portfolio: steelVIEW
by Clarence Porter

FACTORY TIME
by Maxwell Kennel

Dennis Lee and the Ever-Green Child
by J.S. Porter

Fiction: Asfalyi, In Love
by C. P. Boyko

Woman with a Sketchbook
Rae Hendershot [1921-1988]

by Rae Bates

Portfolio:
Rae Hendershot [1921-1988]


Mike Hansen:
Noise for the People

by Earl Miller

Portfolio: Remix
by Mike Hansen

All that is Left:
18 Poems on the 50th Anniversary
of Whitehern Museum

by Elizabeth Tessier

Art Waves: A History & Some Highlights
by radio host Bernadette Rule

A Memoir: My Life in Pieces
by Peggyanne Mansfield (1945-2020)
Foreword by Daniel Coleman

Short Story: Thoughts in Autumn
by Nichole Fanara

Short Story: TRAPPED
by Margaret Watson

Review: when I see, I breathe light –
Natalie Hunter at Smokestack Gallery

by Bart Gazzola

Portfolio: poetics of time
by Natalie Hunter

As Anything: music
by Singer-Songwriter Martin Verrall

Video: The Hated Uncles
A throwback to Hamilton's 1980's/90's
art-punk music scene

with John Harvey

Portfolio: urban landscapes
by Angela Zheng

Poetry:
Introduction to Tactics and Vacuum

by Ben Robinson

Poetry:
The Day after Pat Musitano Died
and Thirtysomethings Speaking Serbo-Croatian on the Escarpment Trails

by Carl Watts

A Poem: The Smoke Eater
by Danny Jacobs

Poem: SEA SONATA WITH VOICES
by Brian Palmu

A Poem: A French Canadian, but not really, moves to Hamilton
by Linzey Corridon

Poem: Speaking, speaking
by Anna Veprinska

Review: On Mark Dickinson’s
Canadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning

by J.S. Porter

Vancouver Reviews Dundas:
Bernadette Rule's Dark Fire

by Timothy Christian



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Hamilton Arts & Letters
13TH ANNIVERSARY
issue fourteen.1
 
ISSN 1916-8454


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