The new issue of Foothills, DU’s undergraduate visual and textual magazine, is a little different than in previous years. In addition to 156 pages of poetry, fiction, photography and artwork, this year’s edition also features a CD of music, recorded by DU musicians.
Nine original songs by DU students are featured on the CD. Musicians include Molly Cottrell, coloReal, Jake Maas, the Namesakes, Sleeptalk, Leah Druzinski, Seek, Jonathan Armstead and Missing Fundamentals.
Foothills: The Music Edition, which was made available last night at a release party in the Driscoll Gallery, is the first to feature a CD along with the magazine since Foothills was founded in 1946. The release party itself was also a first in Foothills history, according to Meagan Brown, the Foothills editor-in-chief.
“We were looking for ways to increase our readership and promote Foothills,” said Brown.
The release party featured food, readings from 10 of the students whose work was published and performances by four of the musicians.
“We wanted to expand Foothills to all of the creative people on campus, so we started by putting up flyers in the music school, then through connections we all had on staff, we asked around in the music school [for contributors],” said Brown. “If anyone knew a musician, [our staff] would talk to them.”
Foothills: The Music Edition is composed of nine chapters, each with a musical mood that unites the various submissions printed in each section. The new edition is one of the largest Foothills magazines to date, Brown said.
“Two years ago, Foothills was small; nobody knew where to find it,” Brown said. “[The edition] got lost in the shuffle.”
This year, nine other members made up the Foothills staff – including assistant editors Whitney Harkness and Taylor Cutshall, distribution editor Rick Anderson and contributing editors Laura Dedmon, Jessie Galioto-Grebe, Chantel Sigman, Elspeth Sweatman, Siena Pinney and Ann-Charlotte Wade.
The staff is advised by Maik Nwosu, an assistant professor in the Department of English.
Although Foothills receives many submissions from English majors, all students are encouraged to submit their work, Brown said.
If you are interested in joining the Foothills staff next year, even as a contributor, go to Facebook.com and search for Foothills Visual and Textual Magazine.
