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Cover of a research journal titled "PJAS Research" for Spring 2026, Issue No. 8. The cover features an artistic, painted illustration of green and blue leafy plants and a wooden surface in the background.

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A woman wearing a large pink hat, white sunglasses with green lenses, red lipstick, and diamond earrings. She is dressed in a yellow shirt and wearing a red pendant necklace. The background is teal. The text on the image reads "Winter 2026 P J A S."

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Cover art for PJAS Research Fall 2015 issue 6, featuring an artistic painting of a person with a blue hoodie and orange pants, sitting behind a barred window.

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Abstract background with vibrant neon colors in purple, pink, orange, and yellow tones. Overlay text reads 'WINTER 2025 PLAS' with 'WINTER 2025' in smaller white font and 'PLAS' in large black letters.

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A scientific magazine cover titled 'PJS Research' for Fall 2024, Issue No. 2, featuring colorful abstract wave patterns on a black background, and credit to cover art artist Amirthesh Prasad.

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Colorful illustration of summer 2024 with a record player, a magazine titled 'How to Let Go,' a tarot card, a yellow perfume bottle, a potted cactus, a framed plant, a comic book, and a hand with tarot symbols, all on a vibrant, rainbow-colored fabric. Cover art by Lucy Caddel.

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Magazine cover titled "PJAS Research" for Spring 2025, Issue No. 4. The cover art shows silhouettes of people climbing or interacting with stairs and ladders inside a circular frame. The background features abstract, colorful, glowing shapes.

Promotional poster for a summer 2025 production of PJAS, featuring a woman with dark hair, red lipstick, and dramatic makeup, posing with her hand on her face against a dark background.

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Every corner of the magazine

PJAS publishes contemporary art, writing, and scholarship — seasonal exhibitions in print, and new work added continuously online. Move through each section below to see what's inside.

Now Showing — Issue No. 9, “Presence”

Each season, we assemble a themed exhibition of painting, photography, and mixed media, published in print and online. The current issue gathers work on being seen and being here.

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AftermathSummer 2026 · Digital Exhibition → Stone GravitySummer 2026 · Digital Exhibition → Secrets of the TidesSummer 2026 · Digital Exhibition →

Five issues archived, 2024 – 2026 View all exhibitions →

Published Continuously

We publish poetry, fiction, and academic scholarship on a rolling basis — creative and critical writing held to the same standard, released as it's ready rather than in batches.

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Maiden, Mother, CroneCreative Writing → Regulating Reality: Ethical Obligations of Algorithmic SystemsScholarly Works → Ode to Edward Hopper's Hodgkin's HouseCreative Writing →

Creative Writing & Scholarly Works View all writing →

The People Behind the Work

Beyond the work itself, we interview contributors, maintain a searchable directory of every artist and author, and document how individual pieces come together in the studio.

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Artist & Author InterviewsIn-depth conversations with contributors → Artist & Author DirectoryA searchable index of every contributor → Studio Process FeatureHow a piece comes together, step by step →

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Summer 2026 Digital Exhibition

SUMMER 2026

Amor Fati

Cloudy Weather

Mono-Vision, Double-Vision

Aftermath

If You Could Read My Mind (You Might Rethink What You're About to Say)

U.S. Constitution in a Knot

She Sat With Yesterday

Binding

Stone Gravity

Morning Stretch

Palace

Aging

#3055

Things She Could Not Say

DeMila Venuto, The Waves

A Tale About a Lumberjack / From Love to Hate

Secrets of the Tides

The Alter

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Featured Scholarly Works

SCHOLARLY WORKS

Regulating Reality: Ethical Obligations of Algorithmic Systems in Democratic Societies

Dahl’s People and Mills’ Elite: Ordinary Truths and Extraordinary Power

Kanye West and the Fall of the Performed Self: A Goffmanian Analysis

The International Monetary Fund: An Agent of Northern Economic Power

Respighi’s ‘Pines of Rome’: Telling a Story through an Orchestra

Reforming Europe: How the Protestant Reformation Modernized European Society, Religion, and Politics

Relief from the Opioid Pandemic

Reflections on a Wavering Special Relationship

Approaching the Proof of Bound Secrecy in Higher Dimensions

Movie Reviews in Relation to How People’s Views of Muslims and Arabs Have Changed Since 9/11

Through the Eyes of Others: Double Consciousness in Gary Winogrand’s ‘Beverly Hills, California’ (1978)

Black Joy in the Work of Tyler Mitchell

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Featured Written Works

WRITING

Maiden, Mother, Crone

Lost Days

Warden Chat

Projection Child

My Dad Thinks I Think Too Much About Death

The Tapestries that Speak

Growing Love

Diminution

Ode to Edward Hopper’s Hodgkin’s House

Love and a Promise

Repossession

The Pathway to the Park

Stars Wish Upon Me

Spotting Proust

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Featured Profiles

ARTIST & AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

Mulin Chen

Lee Ann Heltzel

Ronit Joy Holtz

Linda H. Post

Judy Haberl

Rachel Romanowsky

Roxanne J.Y. Teng

Margaret Vega

Laure Blagojevic

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Our Story

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Creative work is not presented alongside scholarship — but with the same weight and expectation.

The Pennsylvania Journal of Arts & Sciences (PJAS) was founded in 2024 as an independent publication devoted to contemporary creative work. It brings together visual art, poetry, and writing in a format that moves easily between disciplines without treating them as separate categories.

PJAS publishes online throughout the year and releases seasonal print issues, shaped through an editorial process that favors work with a clear sense of form and direction. The journal continues to grow beyond its campus roots, working with artists and writers whose practices feel considered, precise, and fully their own.

Founded by Sophie Kadan (University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2025), Editor-in-Chief

Follow @pjasmag for updates and selected features.
For inquiries: sokadan@sas.upenn.edu.