Christina Schmid, CVA faculty member, has written five essays for the Jerome Fellowship Exhibition catalog and wrote and published a review of the Quick and the Dead in Flash Art. She was invited to serve as the commentator on a panel on the avant-garde after 1945 at a national conference in Washington, D.C and has launched Quodlibetica, her web site that is devoted to arts, writing, and criticism with a constellation of essays, poems, and photography on the theme of wilderness.