Smartermarx Magazine’s March Issue Explores Excellence Through ÀNI Community Voices

The latest issue of Smartermarx Magazine went live Friday afternoon, featuring a collection of articles centered around this month’s exploration theme: “Excellence.” This edition examines how growth and meaningful development emerge through persistence, reflection, and disciplined practice, with contributions from several voices within the ÀNI Art Academies community.

Editor Ava Ash-Waichulis opens the issue with “Excellence is Often Grounded in What You Don’t See,” an exploration of ÀNI Art Academies’ definition of excellence: “Striving for the highest standards in teaching, learning, and personal development.” The article explains that excellence is not perfection, but an ongoing process shaped through repetition, experimentation, observation, and persistence.

In “The Cognitive Forest,” Anthony Waichulis examines learning, perception, and knowledge-building through an extensive body of interdisciplinary research. The article encourages careful reflection and reveals new connections through repeated reading, offering a layered exploration of how understanding develops over time.

Mitchell Bagnas returns with “Feast or Famine: The Cost of Skill Acquisition,” a candid reflection on the challenges of balancing serious artistic training with the demands of everyday life. His article explores the routines, sacrifices, frustrations, and persistence often required for meaningful artistic growth, offering an honest look at the realities of long-term skill development.

This month also introduces a new recurring series titled The Adorned World. The debut article focuses on the chair. “From Pharaohs to Functionalism: The Evolution of the Chair” explores how an everyday object can reflect authority, ritual, status, comfort, and changing ideas about interior space across cultures and centuries.