Our Growing Team has worked worked with over 30 Volunteer Creative Contributors and volunteers since the August 2023 reLaunch, and we growing this roster with each Print Edition and multimedia production in our digital space.
Interested in Contributing: hart@16blocks.org
Hart Fowler
Publisher
Editor-in-Chief
Independent Journalist:
Contributor to Washington Post, arsTechnica, Reverb, Input, Digital Trends, Electronic Gaming Magazine, IndyWeekly, CultureEater, C-Ville Weekly, The Raleigh Magazine, The Roanoke Times, Blue Ridge Outdoors, 100 Days in Appalachia, Smoky Mountain Living, Inquisitr.com, and others…
Publisher:
16 Blocks 1.0, 41 Print Issues 2007-2012
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Rita Brame
Creative Director
Head of Marketing
My journey as a Creative Director began as Editor for my high school yearbook at Radford High School. I graduated from Radford University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting, Cumme Laude.
I received a Master’s of Fine Arts from Winthrop University in Sculpture and was recipient of Winthrop Woman of Excellence Award.
I am a professional artist and work in many mediums, from oil paintings to graphic design to murals.
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Eric Marshall
Head of Photography
Eric has always fancied himself as a bit of a mad scientist. Sometimes he volunteers at the Ruritan club fish fries. Eric is also obsessed with ducks. I heard he likes tacos.
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Contributing Writers in Print Issue #42
Tonē Jermain
Musician
Founder/Emcee of Beats in the Streets.
Finding Beats on the Streets
“Every time I pass by the piano on
Draper I always envision that space being used in a way full of music and people.”
Cassandra Kessman
Wine Writer
Summer Sipping Suggestions
Each grape, vineyard & winemaker has a story to tell which is expressed in each glass of wine, whispering stories of the soil, the weather & the winemaker.
Emily Meade
Fashion Writer
Where Fashion Meets Artistry and Individuality
Books and writing have always held a special place in my heart, igniting a passion in me that is unlike anything else.
I am so excited to contribute to 16 Blocks Magazine and help highlight the wonderful community that we share.
Brandy Renee McCann
Outdoors Writer
A folk herbalist and writer, her creative work can be found at Reckon Review, Still: The Journal, and The Dead Mule.
She is a research scientist at the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Tech where she studies care-giving.
Basic Rules on Foraging
appears in Issue #42
John Kline
Photographer at Large
John’s first camera was a Kodak Brownie Reflex. The OG of Downtown Draper Road, he has owned many incarnations of what is now John’s Camera and Records
on the Draper block for 47 years.