Artist
Carley Rickles, Sasha Tycko, and Joel Silverman

Project Title
Interpolate Magazine

Grant Amount
$2,000

Interpolate Magazine (IM) is an artist-run, print publication dedicated to the interpretation of Southern landscapes through public scholarship, storytelling, art, and criticism. The publication explores what can be revealed about history, society, politics, and ecology through inquisitive and acute attention to the ordinary landscapes of the Southeast. IM’s editorial mission is to encourage artists and writers to test new and courageous ideas, to explore hidden and unexpected connections, and to relate their most pressing personal concerns to the cultural, political, and natural landscape of the American Southeast. It does this with a deep commitment to the craft and design of the publication. 

IM borrows the field of geography's method of “interpolation,” a way of estimating something unknown between known data points, such as the elevation between two contour lines on a map. It is a creative prompt to contributors to probe the hidden dimensions within the Southern landscape.  

IM focuses on publishing perspectives from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. However, the editors are interested in how the Southeast relates to broader geographies (the country as whole, borderlands, the Earth, etc), and it welcomes and encourages work that connects to issues beyond the region.