ISSUE 5: FOOD

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This issue is all about FOOD. Our friend quori theodor, an amazing artist and inventive chef, is Mishou’s very first Guest Editor! They invited an incredible group of chefs, artists, and food lovers to contribute to this issue. Inside you will discover recipes (piano cakes! onigiri friends! silly soup!), activities (how to make a bird feeder! flavor meditations! edible storytelling!), artists from age 5-88, & so much more!

Letter from the editor, quori theodor:

What even is cooking? Why isn’t a recipe more like a spell? 

In this issue of Mishou we’ll explore some of the many ways we can play with our food

How does a dream taste? Is a sandwich a sculpture? 

You probably already know countless ways to make food fun. In a way, this issue is about celebrating kids’ punk sense of food (and how grownups can learn from y’all!)

how it looks, how it tastes, how it feels

Of course we have some pretty fun grownups too who will be sharing some of the inspiring ways they have made a life around playing with their food.

the color of flavor

I hope this magazine gives you more possibilities in all things food!

ISSUE #4: MYSTERY

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This issue’s theme is Mystery. Mysteries are all around us: The deep sea, time travel, aliens in outer space… sometimes even the way we feel can be a mystery! Mystery books and movies are fun because we can transform ourselves into detectives, putting together clues and finding connections between details that we observe. It’s pretty exciting to solve a mystery. But not solving mysteries can be cool too! Humans often have the desire to figure things out, but it’s okay for us to not understand everything. In fact, that can make life a lot more interesting. If we knew all the answers, we would have nothing left to learn.

Inside you'll find a variety of mystery themed art, writing, and activities. Play a game of “I, Spy” using Jessica Butler’s poetic clues to discover hidden creatures in a magical garden. “Connect the Dots” with Payton Barronian to reveal a mysterious drawing. Cut out Sara Yukiko Mon’s cards to test your memory, and piece them back together to solve her puzzles. Help solve a ghost story, investigate mysteries that are unsolved to this day, and so much more!

ISSUE #3: WEATHER

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This issue’s theme is inspired by weather. Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere, like rain, snow, sunshine, and thunder. The weather is different all around the world, but we all experience it! We can feel weather - the sun warming our skin, the wind coming through an open window. Some of us can see weather - the sky turning orange as the sun sets, a big white flash of lightning. Some of us can hear weather - thunder cracking, rain pitter-pattering on a rooftop, wind whistling.

Weather is very powerful, but in the same way it affects us, we can affect weather. The weather on our planet has already changed so much because of humans and we have to be careful about how we treat the Earth.

Weather makes our world go round! The sun and rain make flowers and food grow from the ground. The wind and tides carry sailboats across the ocean. We can build snow sculptures and make snow angels. Sometimes, I even think about my emotions as weather inside of my body.

In this issue we decided to focus on weather because there are so many different ways to explore it! Through art, science, poetry and more. On page 31 you can follow steps to draw a snowflake, and on page 33 are instructions to make your own wind chime. On pages 41-48 you can learn about Weather in Space, and read interviews with young Climate Change activists that might even be your age! Issue #3 contributors and artists range from age 6 to 78!

ISSUE #2: My Museum

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This issue’s theme is inspired by museums. Museums are filled with all sorts of things, from fossils, to furniture, to fashion. A lot of them are used to show and teach people about art, and can also be a space where the art is kept safe, so that humans can look at it for many years. Sometimes museums are in buildings, big or small. Sometimes they cost money to enter, and sometimes they are free. Sometimes you can take classes, or a tour. We hope that now, and in the future, museums will be open to everyone! At Mishou, we think that anyone can start a museum. If there is one topic you’re super interested in, you can create a museum all about that one thing! Since I love warbler birds, maybe I will start a “Warbler Museum”, with drawings, videos, sounds… anything that has to do with warblers! Museums can also have bigger ideas, or themes, and include lots of different things that fit into that category. For example, an “Art Museum” can include all kinds of art from the past, or the present! An “Archaeology Museum” can show historical objects all the way from dinosaur bones to maps of what Earth looked like thousands of years ago. In this issue of Mishou we want to share with you some unique and special examples of museums. On page 47 you will find the Titanic Historical Society, which has a museum in the back of a jewelry repair shop, and on page 5 there is The Revolving Museum, which makes art projects happen all over the place, by using lots of vehicles called artmobiles! Issue #2 contributors and artists range from age 5 to 48!

Issue #1: Stone Soup

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Our first issue is centered around the theme of “Stone Soup,” inspired by the eponymous folktale. In the story, some hungry travelers arrive at a village with nothing but an empty pot. At first, when they ask the villagers for food, they are turned away. The travelers take their pot to a stream, fill it with water, and put a large stone in it. They put the pot with the stone over a fire and wait for the water to boil. When the villagers ask what they are doing, the hungry strangers explain that they are making “stone soup”, and will happily share it with everyone. They also welcome the villagers to add some of their own ingredients to the soup to make it even tastier. Slowly but surely, people from the village begin to add bits of leftover food they don’t mind sharing. After each person has added something from their own kitchen, all of the food they have shared makes a delicious meal, big enough for everyone to eat. Although at the beginning the villagers did not want to share, by the end of the story they realize that when a community comes together they can make something amazing, that helps and nourishes everyone.