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publisher, editor-in-chief Matthew Dallman multimedia director Dan Allison art director Paul Salamone columnists Dan Allison, John Craig, Hannah Dallman, William Harryman, Victoria Lansford, Thom Morgan, Jean Rivard, Paul Salamone poetry curator William Harryman contributing photographer Benjamin S Rogerson
POLYSEMY is an journal for champions of the fine arts who are also fine art practitioners, ranging from beginners to masters. The journal is crafted for tradition-minded fine artists who desire intelligent investigation into issues at the heart of the various disciplines of fine art based upon the premise that commonality lies at the roots of all creative endeavor — a commonality that can be articulated. POLYSEMY also features discussions of inspiration practices, media studies and techniques, social and political commentary, exhortations to classical education, aesthetic philosophy, and more. The definition of "polysemy" itself is "something having multiple meanings". That works of fine art provide multiple meanings (usually according to 3-5 different levels) is a traditional view that POLYSEMY renews and updates. For example, its founder, Matthew Dallman, often refers to the multiple meanings as "entertainment, education, and enlightenment", anchored in the enduring ideas of Beauty, Memory and Imagination, Sign and Symbol, and more. POLYSEMY is dedicated to the proposition that the fine arts are living traditions of imagination requiring constant renewal by artists. These traditions are based upon resonance, beauty, wisdom, awe, mystery; traditions that defy categories of time, and are the result of both verbal and nonverbal conversations between the works of imaginative people across the ages. POLYSEMY's project is to frame practical innovation, insight, and intuition to be applied towards the bringing forth of contemporary fine artistry. POLYSEMY, thus, seeks to be a useful companion to working fine artists. POLYSEMY Online debuted in May, 2006, and is a collection of blogs and commentary. POLYSEMY Print shipped a one-time, 32-pg, four-color magazine in Summer 2006. Currently it is on hiatus, but will soon be reinstated as a free subscription newsletter comprised of one lengthy article per issue, and shipped three times per year. POLYSEMY is published in Chicago by Electric Goose Productions. It is printed by Futura Printing in Oswego, IL. TCBands.com provides all web support. Please direct correspondence to editor [at] polysemy [dot] org. ©2008 POLYSEMY. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. |
 Dan Allison (website) is a percussionist, visual artist, film maker, and writer. He has performed with multiple musical ensembles including the Dallas Jesuit Percussion Ensemble, the Casey Jones Band, and is currently with his funk/prog rock band Cosmopolis. Dan lives in Boulder, and he works for the Integral Institute as assistant to the audio/video department and studies music at Naropa University.
 John Craig (website) is father of one girl, husband of one wife and the owner of one dog and one cat. But he doesn't think the cat actually submits to the idea of having an owner. He is the co-owner of Craig Photography, and a Pittsburgh-based photographer who has earned a B.A. in communications and has over 15 years of photography experience.
 Hannah Dallman (website) is a filmmaker and writer who for 2nd grade career day came to school as a painter. Amidst firemen and nurses, and with paintbrushes in her hair, she held a cardboard palette and stuck out like a sore thumb. Since then, she has directed, acted, and puppeteered in many stage productions, and currently studies at Columbia College Chicago, for an MFA in Film and Video arts. Her filmography includes Official Selections in Chicago International Film Festival, Milwaukee Short Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Chicago Filmmakers, The Big Screen, and Flix by Chix. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.
 Matthew Dallman (website) is a composer, poet, and aesthetics scholar. He has released several albums and composes for films. His music has been performed in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Boston, New York City, Boulder, and Los Angeles. He notably scored the Hannah Dallman film, A Whirling Tango — an Official Selection of the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
 William Harryman (website) is a freelance writer, blogger, personal trainer, and
occasional poet. Following completion of a master's degree in humanities, he
worked in bookstores, for a magazine wholesaler, and as a sales & marketing
coordinator in the giftware world. His first love has always been poetry, a
medium in which he published consistently before the Muse took a long
vacation. Since then he has written several children's books, as well as
publishing occasional articles on psychology and spirituality. He lives in
Tucson, Arizona.
 Victoria Lansford (website) is a Renaissance woman of the arts. She is a
master of Bronze Age gold and silversmithing techniques, creating one-
of-a-kind jewelry and art objects, an educator in the arts, a writer
of non-fiction, and a dancer in both Western and Middle Eastern
traditions. Victoria believes that the artistic process can benefit
everyone and is passionately committed to bringing this awareness to
others through her courses and her writing. She lives in Atlanta
with her son, Skyler, and her award winning work is collected worldwide.
 Thom Morgan (website) is final year arts/law student at the University of Melbourne. In 2004 he finished his Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English literature. He is focusing on international economic and humanitarian law in his final year at university. A part time actor and aspiring writer, Thomas was the joint winner of the 2002 State Theatre Company of South Australia's young playwrights award. After completing his university degree, Thomas hopes to teach English in Japan.
 Jean Rivard (website) is a writer, glass beadmaker, silversmith, and jewelry
artist. She writes fiction, creative non-fiction as well as
journalistic and academic non-fiction work. Her love of lampworking
glass beads began in 1993, and she now designs and creates
whole works of wearable art. Jean never settles for the tried and true, but forever seeks new challenges,
styles, and techniques in an effort to let each and every written or
visual piece she creates express its own deepest authenticity. She lives in Kansas City.
 Paul Salamone (website) is a freelance designer, writer, and performance
artist/musician out of a cheap townhouse in Boulder. With experiences as a communard, karaoke dj, and garrulous
newspaper columnist under his belt, Paul brings to Polysemy the
perspective of a life-long media addict prone to taking on creative
challenges for hyper-idealistic organizations, mixed with a penchant
for caffiene-fueled all-nighters where the sketchbooks pile high and
the ideas flow far into the aether. This is his first art magazine.
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