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Spring 2023 Edition

We are pleased to present to our readers the Spring ‘23 edition of Illumination Journal

At Illumination, we believe in the necessity of art and are doing our best to reflect that with a move towards compensating our artists via honorariums awarded across three categories of submission. This is the second edition of the journal to feature these honorariums. We are excited at the opportunity to compensate some of our artists and hope that this can reflect even a sliver of the joy and pride we feel from the opportunity to publish their work.

We hope you enjoy reading and viewing this edition as much as our staff enjoyed putting it together. 

To every artist who submitted work, please accept our immense gratitude for allowing us the opportunity to publish you. We know you will go on to do amazing things in the future.

Happy reading!

The Illumination Staff

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Mission Statement

The mission of Illumination is to provide the undergraduate student body of the University of Wisconsin-Madison a chance to publish work in the fields of humanities and to display the talent of emerging creators. As an approachable portal for creative writing, art, and scholarly essays, the diverse content in the journal intends to be a publication for academic and community interests alike.