It wasn’t until I got it home and started reading that I realized -  this whole publication is a work of art. Many of the pages are unique types of paper, with cutouts, foldouts, inserts, facsimiles of notebook/sketchbook pages, and a pocket holding a music CD (one of the commissioned works.The ten musicians were each asked to compose a song based on job listings in their local paper. The album is called “Help Wanted.”)

Altogether there are 13 projects in this magazine, by visual artists, writers, musicians, a mathematician, a performance artist, and others. It’s chock-full of thought-provoking pieces. Plus there’s a cool 3-D model (by the mathematician) in colorful perforated cardstock with step-by-step illustrated build-it-yourself instructions.

Coulter Jacobsen’s project involved the readers, too - in the previous issue he asked people to send him photographs of personal memories, which he copied in pencil drawings and  then redrew from memory a few days later. He calls these pieces “Memory Drawings.” The photos, and both drawing versions are reproduced here.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s project is an etching of one of her watercolor trees. In a dozen pages of color photos and explanatory notes, she takes the viewer through the arduous process of creating an etching from her “preliminary watercolor.” Then a big foldout page shows impressions of each plate in the process.

When you buy this “magazine,” you’re really buying a portfolio of art projects.