Man in the Moon by Rora Blue and Max Stone BGAS25

Rora Blue

Rora Blue is a queer disabled artist living and working in Reno, Nevada. His current work utilizes soft sculpture and installation to relate queerness and disability to nature, invisibility, and celebration. Blue is the recipient of the VSA Emerging Young Artist Award of Excellence from the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C as well as the International IphiGenia Gender Design Award awarded at the Museum of Applied Art in Cologne, Germany. His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions spanning nine different countries and he has been written about in publications including the New York Times. Blue received his BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2024.

Max Stone

Max Stone is a poet, writer and artist from Reno, Nevada. He played soccer at Queens College in New York City before returning to Reno to earn his MFA in poetry and BA in English with a minor in book arts and publication from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of the chapbooks The Bisexual Lighting Makes Everyone Beautiful (Ghost City Press) and Temporary Preparations (Bottlecap Press). He received a fellowship to attend the Community of Writers poetry workshop, and his work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Stone is the creator, curator, and host of Landline Poetry Series.