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Mule Magazine is a collaborative publication created to record these projects that are occurring on a grassroots, national, and international level. The publication hopes to document and celebrate the world of people who continue making, thinking, and generating. It addresses both the usual and the unusual with a thoroughness perhaps overlooked by traditional media by mixing creative theory with contemporary culture. The magazine started in 2002 as a project between three undergrad students at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, selling ads door to door, to fund the first issue’s printing. Since its conception, the project it has involved over a dozen different designers, a gaggle or so of contributing artists, and a cast of writers, all collaborating toward the magazine’s output. Since 2002, we've spread- from Tennessee to Georgia, Chicago, New York, and China. As a result, the magazine’s content is as varied as its contributors’ locations. We try to focus on southeastern projects as well as midwestern, and anything that might filter through or roam between. We're a regional publication in the sense that we focus on what's around us as we roam about. Issues include a collage of local music reviews, write-ups, interviews, and features with both emerging and established musicians and visual artists. There are fashion spreads of conceptual clothing, poetry and writing from across the board, and interviews with anyone who might have a new perspective to offer. |
Liz Tapp loves swimming, talking, dancing, summer dresses, her little brother's YouTubes, and fancy drinks of all kinds. Liz spends her time making designs and illustrations for projects she loves like the FreeWrite Jail Arts and Literacy Program, among others. For the last six years, working on Mule Magazine as editor, designer, and publisher, Tapp has had her hands busy. You won't meet someone more grateful for her collaborators and compadres. |
Chris Roberson, is an artist and designer. He splits his time between Chicago's Hefty Records, the Reelfoot Library of Music and Sound, Gentlefolk Design Company, and his personal artwork where he works with mixed media sculpture and collage. When not busy with one of these ventures, he enjoys digging for gospel records, reading tall tales, and drinking coffee. |
Jennifer Brandel is a contended wanderer. She moved to Chicago in 2005 after working an organic vineyard in Tasmania and developing psychometric tests in Montreal. For the last few years she's been dabbling in public radio reporting, translating the philosophy of a growing religion for the general public and training as a holistic healer. Jennifer is also a founding member of an international women's movement called Dance Dance Party Party. She spends her free time thinking of the perfect name for a dog she's never met & does not yet own. |
Joseph Shipp is a graphic designer living in Chattanooga, TN where he works full time at Widgets & Stone. He has been associated with MULE since issue 2, mainly as a designer. Joseph is active in the local design community organizing events and projects. If there's one thing he'd rather be doing, though, it's riding his '72 Norton Commando. |
Emily Clayton is an artist and one-half of gentlefolk design. Since moving north to Chicago, Emily has been painting, designing, creating and collaborating. Soon she will be happy, making art in the woods. |
Liz Tapp met Nick Dupey in gym class. Not only can he run fast, she explains, but he is an awesome designer, painter, and musician. Even more importantly, he is one of the best co-conspirators anyone could wish for. Recently, Dupey opened Young Monster, a community-oriented silkscreen shop in Chattanooga, TN. Young Monster has been described as "a loose collective working in graphic design, screen printing, fashion, and music." See NIck's handiwork here: |
Amy Cargill is a practitioner of the cunning art of sleep deprivation with a strong emphasis on astro-analysis. She is a lover of felines, digital cinema and 'Borg vs. McEnroe' Wimbledon, 1980. Her work can be found at: |
Caleb Wilson is Mule's longest running and most prominent photographer. Wilson works in both experimental and traditional photography, with an emphasis on Polaroid and light studies. |
LYNDA'S PHIL COHRAN INTERVIEW READ HER PIECE IN THIS ISSUE |
Andrew Ciscel is a gardener, photographer, and worker. He loves hiking in the woods and post-industrial exploring. An avid cyclist and cat lover, Andrew enjoys photographing adventures, social justice events, and pet portraits, among other things. You can follow his adventures through his flickr.
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Antonia Gustaitis has been combining her love of words and music ever since she managed to successfully edit her story about the night she snuck out to see her first rock show (that wasn't not true) and getting to keep her allowance after all. Since then, she has been healing the strained muscles of the overenthusiastic on the dance floor, emoting with flowers, and occasionally joining various bands of roving gypsies to rattling the snare drum. |
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sarah moved to Chicago in 2004, where she attended Columbia College and earned a BFA in photography. Sarah’s solo projects as well as those done with fellow collaborator, Terttu Uibopuu, have been exhibited at places such as; Schneider Gallery, Bridge Art Fair Miami, Co-Prosperity Sphere, and appeared in Boys and Girls the sixth issue of 6x6, a photo book series. In addition, Sarah has photographed for private commissions, and freelance for publications such as W Magazine, among others. |
Alternative music (whatever that means anymore) grabbed Rob Wiles halfway through the '90s and he never fully recovered. Rob lives in Ireland where a framed photograph |
Musician, DJ, Dance-Derby Finalist, Travis Nelson Murphy is a first-rate kind of guy. Trav gets down with music of all kinds. READ HIS COUNT BASS D ARTICLE HERE GET HIM TO DJ YOUR PARTY: |
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