The ink just dried on Ink’s spring release
Photo by: Shannon Wright
In honor of the release of their spring issue, student-run alternative fashion and culture publication Ink Magazine held a launch party at the Camel on April 16, which featured performances from Richmond-based electronic hip hop group B.ckwards Haus Ops and “art rock” band Toward Space.
Volume eight, issue two of the bi-annual magazine features articles about body image, up-and-coming musicians, fashion, couch surfing and more. Its production team is comprised of more than a dozen photographers, designers, writers and editors – all of whom are students at VCU.
“We were trying to have a nice mix for people,” said Ink’s chief editor Brandon Geib.
Geib said the staff envisioned the release show as a fun, laid-back way to attract new readers and get the issue circulating, with attendees receiving souvenier buttons to mark the occasion and a copy of the magazine.
Geib touted this latest release as the magazine’s longest issue so far.
“We almost got to a full 100 (pages),” he said. “It’s pretty exciting.”
The artists performing at the event made an appearance in this season’s issue as well. Alfred, from B.ackwards Haus Ops, appears as the issue’s featured musician, and Toward Space appears as one of four different acts in the magazine’s “You Should Be Listening” section, which is a collection of artists who the editorial staff feels aren’t recieving the attention they deserve.
“We really want to point people towards cool music in Richmond,” Geib said.
Ink is housed in VCU’s Student Media Center. It was first published in 2008, and has since recieved multiple awards including Best Magazine Cover in the 2015 Pinnacle College Media Awards and the second place Mark of Excellence Award for Best Student Magazine in the Region in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Free copies of this issue can be picked up at the Student Media Cetner at 817 W. Broad Street.
Music Desk, Josh Buck
I’m an almost annoyingly outspoken feminist who loves writing about gender and race in mainstream art. I once had to be almost physically removed from Disneyland because my friends said it’s not cool to be the very last person in the park. I can’t wait to graduate in the spring so I can point my car West with no money and no plan, and spend months seeing the country, writing and meeting people.
