Libre’s newest release, Issue Four, was created in partnership with Pratt Institute’s art department with the theme, “Surrealism Tomorrow.” Libre looks to create partnerships that continue this support of humanitarian / disability-centric publications, and this issue’s work is thanks to contributions from Pratt’s staff and students, notably Luka Lucic, Associate Professor of Pratt Institute’s Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, who provides a forward for the issue.

Libre editors write, “What Pratt’s artists are doing here is similar to an extrication process: abscessed tooth, shiny molar of a fate dealt in decay and lonely back-waters of the diseased gum, brought alive again by cut, strategy, and replacement. These ten students aim mightily towards examination of illness, resuscitation of generational trauma, and archival of death and doubt under the intelligent pretext of heroic foundational upheaval. They mix media with grief and paint water from inside the artwork instead of out, and we’re no longer the lonely examiner but the paint fiber. Mix your hands in mud sometime and place them against something else white. Stand back and point with one hand, saying, ‘this is me, this is who I’ve broken into.’ You’ll understand the point of Issue Four then.”

Artists’ works are featured along with their statements and bios. Libre is a free, open-access journal.