Trauma and the Environment

Tendrils is an independent art and literary journal exploring trauma through contemporary visual art and short-form literature.
Steel house frame on grass with clothes hanging off it in shades of yellows and blues
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Why an art journal about trauma?

The hard truth: trauma is isolating.

This trauma-informed art and literary journal aims to create a space where art and literature can intersect that isolation. Offering a platform for voices to explore the nuanced and often difficult conversations surrounding trauma. Meet the Team

What’s being said about Tendrils

  • “I am grateful for the focus on art and writing as elements that allow us to express and understand trauma.”

  • “Thank you for creating such an important space.”

  • “It’s inspiring to know how many incredible voices and perspectives are brought together.”

  • "I’m so excited to receive the copy and hold it in my hands."

  • "Wow! It's staggering, intense, and beautiful. So very beautiful!"

Trauma and Environment, Issue 2 Trauma and Environment, Issue 2
Trauma and Environment, Issue 2
$25.00

Inside Trauma and the Environment, Issue 2, you’ll find 50+ visual art and literary works that explore questions of home and loss, belonging and estrangement, permanence and change.

Works that speak to fires and climate change, industrial decay and hope for renewal, how rivers carry history, and so much more. Plus, guidance from a licensed therapist.

This 60-page full-color publication is your source for creative reflection and calls you to feel what you’ve been holding on to.

Featuring works by:

Ally Carvalho, Andre Corbin, Anna Purves, Annabel Hope, Annie Jones, Avery Maglies, Brendan Dawson, Bruce Morrow, Carol Guerrero-Murphy, Cathy Lee, Chris Andrew, Claire Corey, Courtney Applequist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi, PhD, David Lee, Diane Arrieta, Frances Arpaia, Gabriel Soto, Gerardo Camargo, Gloria Ogo, Huynh Minh Trang, IceBox Collective, James Welch, Jess Zeglin, Joyce Frohn, Julie Lauterbach, Julienne Kaleta, KM Kramer, Karen Elias, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Laurinda Lind, Leslie dela Vega, Lillian Pennypacker, Lisa Wilde, Marta Staudinger, Maggie Gourlay, Maggie Mwangi, Maren Cadwallender, Mary Christine Delea, Michael Abreu, Molly Rooney, Naila Francis, Olivia Tripp Morrow, Paloma Vianey, Pauline Chu, Peter Brindley, Rashad Timmons, Ren Manuel, Roisin Connolly, Sarah Bell Wilson, Shloka Dhar, Sienna Alpert, Susan L. Lin, Suze Woolf

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Witness, reflect, and fall in love with our latest issue, Trauma and the Environment.

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