Noelani Kirschner

Noelani Kirschner is a former assistant editor for the Scholar.

Kate Jarvik Birch

Finding beauty in the mundane

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 11, 2024

Fawn Rogers

"Create or die"

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 12, 2024

Julia Powell

Dreamscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 29, 2024

Allison McIntyre

Wildlife, on camera

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 15, 2024

Tammy West

Climate grief (without despair)

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 11, 2023

Adrian Kay Wong

Overlooked moments

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 20, 2023

Jay Katelansky

I Will Survive

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 06, 2023

Candace Castle

I’ve seen it all in a small town

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 23, 2023

Madeline Donahue

The paradox of motherhood

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 02, 2023

Jennifer Pochinski

Deconstructing Velázquez

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 18, 2023

Danielle Nilsen

When art becomes playtime

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 14, 2023

Janet Loren Hill

Decontextualized viewpoints

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 31, 2023

Josie Del Castillo

The beating heart of the borderland

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 03, 2023

Jessica Fields

Painting with a palette knife

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 12, 2023

Louis Ardine

Walking, Coast to Coast

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 08, 2023

Hangama Amiri

Afghan Women’s Lives, Past and Present

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 24, 2023

Viki Eagle

Reframing Native Creativity

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 03, 2023

Loren Erdrich

Liminal Worlds

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 13, 2023

Carolyn Misterek

Domestic Bliss

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 27, 2023

Michael McGregor

Colors, Colors Everywhere

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 06, 2023

Claire Whitehurst

Reflections of Ourselves

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 23, 2023

Patricia Iglesias

Nature, Uninterrupted

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 26, 2022

Meghann Riepenhoff

The Alchemy of Ice

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 12, 2022

Mariah Reading

The Eco-Artist

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 21, 2022

Virginia Shepley

Bridging the Divide

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 02, 2021

Carly Owens

Breaking with Tradition

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 31, 2022

Ann Pachner

The Unknowable Center

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 17, 2022

Jackie Milad

Our Historied Selves

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 26, 2022

Rhonda Brown

Portraits, Past and Present

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 12, 2022

Terence Nicholson

Exploring Exploration

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 22, 2022

Victoria van der Laan

Creating New Patterns

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 08, 2022

Jo Bertini

Desert Song

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 25, 2022

Hannah Knox

This is Not a Shirt

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 27, 2022

Mimi Jung

Defense Mechanisms

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 06, 2022

Samantha Bittman

Flipping the Script (or Loom)

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 16, 2022

Ann Provan

Where the Staircase Ends

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 02, 2022

Carolyn Salas

Woman, Transcendent

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 18, 2022

Janine Brown

Emptiness and Form

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 04, 2022

Hoesy Corona

Vestiges of Climate Migration

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 21, 2022

Christian Dinh

A History in Hands

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 07, 2022

Kathryn Littlejohn

Honoring the Dead

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 21, 2022

Christy Matson

Picking Up the Thread

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 07, 2022

Amy Brener

Totems to Knick-Knacks

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 24, 2022

Bella Wattles

A Slice of (Still) Life

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 03, 2022

Emma R. Schwartz

Southern Gothic

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 20, 2021

Deb Sokolow

Usurping Utopia

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 06, 2021

Heather Kirtland

Grounded Vessels

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 22, 2021

Jean Alexander Frater

Supporting the Substrate

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 08, 2021

Sarah Gesek

Southwest Serendipity

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 25, 2021

Kelly Knaga

Garden Party

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 11, 2021

Andrew Faris

Symphony in Sunset

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 06, 2021

Christine Buckton Tillman

The Art of Joy

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 27, 2021

Conny Goelz Schmitt

Book-ending Sculpture

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 23, 2021

Hasani Sahlehe

Sunshine and Rainbows

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 19, 2021

Katherine Sable

Order from chaos

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 28, 2021

Jennifer Hudnell

Painting with Paper

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 07, 2021

Oona Brangam-Snell

Visual riddles

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 17, 2021

Nancy Storrow

The forest for the leaves

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 03, 2021

Jenny Freestone

Transforming the material and the natural

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 19, 2021

Jennifer Frank

Into the woods

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 05, 2021

Maggie Cowles

Daily life, still

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 22, 2021

Amelia Midori Miller

Hands: Other windows to the soul

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 08, 2021

Christina Watka

Fragments of light

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 22, 2021

Erin Lynn Welsh

In the flowers, in the flames

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 08, 2021

Amber Vittoria

Somewhere, inside the rainbow

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 25, 2021

Kayla Plosz Antiel

Blooming in Time

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 11, 2021

Laura Naples

Lines of Communication

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 21, 2020

Julia Gutman

Shrouds of Memory

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 07, 2020

Rebecca Smith

Woven Dreamscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 23, 2020

Nick McPhail

Windows to the Soul

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 09, 2020

Rose Jaffe

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 26, 2020

Chris Ernst

Rosies, Reimagined

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 05, 2020

Sasha Fishman

The Waste in Our Water

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 21, 2020

Chao Wang

The Science of Dreams

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 07, 2020

Sara Dittrich

Nonversation

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 17, 2020

Mack Sikora

Walled Off

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 03, 2020

Libby Barret

Taking a Seat

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 20, 2020

Paige Twyman

Postindustrial imagination

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 06, 2020

Daphne Minkoff

Preserving Old Seattle

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 15, 2020

Melissa Jackson

Memories, Collected

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 01, 2020

Melvin Nesbitt Jr.

Life, piece by piece

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 04, 2020

Amy Boone-McCreesh

A Room of One’s Own

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 13, 2020

Angela Haseltine Pozzi

From trash to treasure

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 30, 2020

Michelle Kohler

The Big Plan

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 09, 2020

Damien Davis

Semiotics of Culture

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 17, 2020

Jillian Mayer

Museum Selfies

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 03, 2020

Molly Springfield

A Trick of the Eye

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 20, 2020

Holly Osborne

Blades of Grass

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 16, 2019

linn meyers

Seeing Sound Waves

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 15, 2018

Ruth Scott Blackson

Chipped Glitter

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 18, 2019

Marcus Cain

Optical Immersions

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 04, 2019

Katherine Taylor

Form Plus Function

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 21, 2019

Sarbani Ghosh

Dream State Landscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 07, 2019

Beverly Penn

Flora Cast Eternal

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 23, 2019

Madeline A. Stratton

Without a Shadow of a Doubt

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 09, 2019

Sarah G. Carter

Patterned Fields

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 26, 2019

Shayna Miller

Meditations in Blue

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 12, 2019

Meghan Brady

Second Hand

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 29, 2019

Adele Yonchak

Nature Panes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 15, 2019

Kim Sandara

The Color of Sound

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 01, 2019

Alexis Granwell

Sculpting Paintings

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 17, 2019

Dawn Holder

End of the Anthropocene

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 10, 2019

Phaan Howng

Fluorescent Waterfalls

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 03, 2019

Anne Austin Pearce

A Return to Nature

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 20, 2019

Yvonne Claveloux

Bursts of Color

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 13, 2019

Claire Campbell Park

Woven Wanderings

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 29, 2019

Amelia Hankin

Dreamcatching

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 06, 2019

Lisa Hunt

The Graphics of Gold

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 22, 2019

Chantal Barlow

Duel of Identities

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 15, 2019

Brenda Mallory

Repurposed Reality

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 08, 2019

Heather MacKenzie

Seismic Landscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 01, 2019

Mrinalini Aggarwal

As Though it Rained from Stars

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 25, 2019

Laleh Mehran

Inside the Glimmering Lights

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 18, 2019

Carrie Johnson

Fragmented Landscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 04, 2019

Ambreen Butt

Mark My Words

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 25, 2019

Susan E. Crowell

Sculpting Pollen

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 28, 2019

Loretta Bennett

Stitching Abstraction

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 11, 2019

Nekisha Durrett

The Sentience of Plants

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 04, 2019

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

Immersion, Organically

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 21, 2019

Erika Stearly

Hallmarks of Home

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 17, 2018

Amy Genser

Paper Patterns

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 10, 2018

Dianna Frid

Interwoven Text

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 03, 2018

Jane Swavely

Neon Forests

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 19, 2018

Christina A. West

Enter the Green Screen

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 05, 2018

Anne Hayden Stevens

Woman Meets Nature

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 29, 2018

Erick Antonio Benitez

Pre-Packaged Nature

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 22, 2018

Jeanne Lorenz

Evaporating Pigments

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 01, 2018

Jill Lear

Tree Talk

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 24, 2018

Erika Huddleston

Meditative Studies

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 17, 2018

Susan Goethel Campbell

Heatscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 10, 2018

The Grape Escape

Oenophilic discoveries near the Sea of Galilee

by Noelani Kirschner | Tuesday, September 04, 2018

When the Well Runs Dry

Searching for clean water in California

by Noelani Kirschner | Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Suchitra Mattai

Portraits of Colonialism

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 20, 2018

Katharine Dufault

Imagined Forests

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 13, 2018

Sonali Khatti

Felting the Grand Canyon

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 07, 2017

John Ryan Brubaker

Veins of Coal

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 30, 2018

Making Oscar Wilde

An excerpt from Michèle Mendelssohn’s account of the writer’s early life and rise to fame

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 23, 2018

Susanna Bluhm

Red Country

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 23, 2018

The Bonanza King

An excerpt from Gregory Crouch’s biography of John William Mackay, the 19th-century silver mine magnate

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 25, 2018

Peter Fiore

Lost in the Woods

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 07, 2018

Carole D'Inverno

Breaking Mountains

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 14, 2018

Shawna C. Elliott

Waves of Nostalgia

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 21, 2018

Kathy Hodge

New England by Train

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 04, 2018

Under the Passaic Falls

Photographing an abandoned community

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 04, 2018

Greg Lindquist

The Price of Coal

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 11, 2018

Theresa Hackett

Earth, Abstracted

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 18, 2018

Philip Govedare

Aerial Imaginations

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 02, 2018

Kathleen Vance

Traveling Landscapes

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 09, 2018

Maureen Chatfield

Breaking Away from the Horizon

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 16, 2018

Andrew Yamauchi

Visions of Paradise

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 23, 2018

Keller Jones

Planetary Allegories

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 16, 2018

Dmitri Wright

The Connecticut Tradition

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 02, 2018

Gina Phillips

Crow Valley

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 26, 2018

Sarah Hultin

Plains of Memory

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 19, 2018

Karen Kinder

Bucolic Bovines

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 12, 2018

Where the Livin’ Is Easy

Unbuttoning on the beach

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 05, 2018

Jane Troup

Otherworldly Ozarks

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 05, 2018

Nolan Preece

Solarized Sierras

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 12, 2018

Lynn Boggess

Wild West Virginia

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 05, 2018

Kristin Selesnick

Back Roads of New Hampshire

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 29, 2018

Ryan Molenkamp

Modern Vesuvius

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 22, 2018

Breehan James

The Wilds of Wisconsin

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 15, 2018

Z.Z. Wei

The American Spirit

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 08, 2018

Michelle Osman

Big Sky Country

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 18, 2017

Catherine Freshley

Where the Wind Comes Sweeping

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 11, 2017

Braeden Cox

Beholding the Unknown

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 04, 2017

Heidi Annalise

Mini-Mountains

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 20, 2017

Rachel Teannalach

Peaks and Valleys

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 13, 2017

Susan P. Puelz

Great Planes of Color

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, November 06, 2017

David Brewster

The Architecture of Landscape

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 30, 2017

Amy Welborn

Up in the Smokies

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 23, 2017

Ruth Robinson

Reimagining Alabama

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 16, 2017

Corinne Robbins

The Shape of the World

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, October 02, 2017

Diana Carey

Splattered Skies

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 25, 2017

Sonia Gill

Changing of the Seasons

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 18, 2017

Anna Fine Foer

Philadelphia's History in Stone

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, September 11, 2017

Out of the Woods?

Bringing back the wild tigers of India

by Noelani Kirschner | Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Michaela Goade

Off the Coast of Alaska

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 28, 2017

Senghor Reid

Weathering the Storm

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 21, 2017

Erin Hanson

Impressions of Zion

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, August 14, 2017

Gavin Glakas

In the Shadow of the Capitol

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 31, 2017

Raul Gonzalez

Invisible Immigrants

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 24, 2017

Annie Greene

Scenes of Southern Life

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 17, 2017

Edie Nadelhaft

Point of View

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 05, 2017

Mariella Bisson

Ebb and Flow

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 10, 2017

Sue Averell

Secret Cities

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 26, 2017

Maia Cruz Palileo

Generational Juxtaposition

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 19, 2017

Hiroshi Sato

Small Town Intrigue

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 12, 2017

Virtual Vellum

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, June 05, 2017

Clara Nulty

Eliminating the Human Element

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 15, 2017

Marcia Crumley

Escapism

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 08, 2017

Roy Boswell

Machine dreams

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 01, 2017

Shonto Begay

Art as ceremony

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 24, 2017

Elizabeth Hoy

Polluted waterways

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 17, 2017

Tony Ortega

Community focus

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, April 03, 2017

Danette Steele Jones

No place like home

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 13, 2017

John Whalley

Sugar Maples

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 06, 2017

Melinda Green Tepler

Color and Form

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 27, 2017

Andrew Yamauchi

Visions of Paradise

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 22, 2017

Julia von Metzsch Ramos

Making Waves

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, May 29, 2017

Alaska’s Close-Up

by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, March 06, 2017