About this project

A/PART is issue #38 of The Bear magazine, formerly published as the Bear Deluxe, an independent, Pacific Northwest-based, nationally distributed magazine exploring environmental issues through the creative arts.

This issue was created as a time capsule brimming not only with art, but with the stories of the humans making art in this moment (2020–2021). Rather than paint a broad picture, A/PART reveals bright glimpses of what it looks like to fight, to grieve, to celebrate, and to take up space. A/PART grapples with a sense of urgency at the intersections of place-based art, identity, and the environment in an expansive sense.

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Five creators served as sponsors, curators, and connectors to five artists who inspire them; with individual ownership of how they would connect and with whom. It was a chance to reconnect or to build new relationships, and drive the editorial perspective of the issue. Their words and works are woven together in conversation in these pages.