Tora Estep and Shannon Brown
Tora Estep “Resisting Expansion” Collage and acrylic on watercolor paper Response Re: Things Governing the Size of My Universe By Shannon Brown Inspiration piece The lenses that I look through, that tell …
Jonathan Ottke and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jonathan Ottke and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jonathan Ottke BirdParenthesis Ink on Paper Response The Garden Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration At last we’re all back here again The Wall encircling us safe The birds, the rain, the flowers pose As the …
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley Response No One Said Pandemics Felt This Lonely By Amy Souza Inspiration piece TV people on a TV blanket watch TV stars then break into song. Absence feels …
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Talking to the Dead By Amy Souza Response 1. They don’t care about salmonberries or our fear of needles overcome. We hope they miss us but …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones “Sharing This Space With You” Graphic pixel play Response Reflections at the End of a School Year By Sarah Pizer-Bush Inspiration piece We sit together and remember precious moments that …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Retreat” Inspiration piece Beyond Shapes Like Globes By Darice Jones Response We sent our elder’s souls into the bodies of small furry animals as a way to observe the …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Ritual” Response The New Elements Cloak By Darice Jones Inspiration piece I kept bending. You were on a bender Drinking my light like it was Facundo Paraiso and coke I mistook the …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Darice Jones “My Echo” Inspiration piece Blues Diary 2022 By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response Spent winter months cloaked in blues again. So many feelings suppressed. Sediment. Layers of loneliness, grief, rage, and …
Leslie Grollman and Jennifer Fendya
Leslie Grollman and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya “Broderick Park, Niagara” Inspiration piece Ushering the Moon Into the Lake By Leslie Grollman Response A yellow comfy chair from the Saturday Flea perfect for teatime and tossing seeds to the birds:…….gull…….duck…….sparrow perfect …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Madona Tyler LeBlanc
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Madona Tyler LeBlanc “Vote. Fight.” Collage and watercolor Inspiration Piece Ideate By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response In circumambulating ideas, folks tend toward imagining, actually conceiving Bits and bobs that cleek outliers such that …
Jennifer Fendya and
Marisa Bevington
Jennifer Fendya and
Marisa Bevington
Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Everyone Hurting By Jennifer Fendya Response Everyone …..hurting everyone too …..tight and …..heavy, too weary and …..oppositional, each one seeking an exit …..stage left stage right This angry snake …..(clutch it hard now, sharp …..talons grasping) biting the …
Marisa Bevington
and Jennifer Fendya
Marisa Bevington
and Jennifer Fendya
Marisa Bevington Response After the End Times By Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece I imagine you dead. You gave your car to her your house I have your wedding photo album in a plastic bag …
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Linda Mitchell “Silences” Response Silences By Jone MacCulloch Inspiration piece A moonless sky tonight The phone in the hall doesn’t ring Commas drift like clouds Weather’s changing, my scar knows The phone in the hall …
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Jone MacCulloch “Solstice Blessings” Inspiration piece Blessings for Solstice By Linda Mitchell Response Today solstice blessings be upon us Today we leap from moon to sun Today three times ‘round the byre Today light …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jonathan Ottke
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Swimming in the Blue Lilies, Blue Tara” Inspiration piece Swimming in Blue Lilies By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Dive and swivel and spread arms wide And swiff and snuzzle the …
Madona Tyler LeBlanc and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Madona Tyler LeBlanc and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Madona Tyler LeBlanc “Slings and Arrows” Collage and watercolor Response Bee Cop By KJ Hannah Greenberg, Inspiration piece Minh Vu adjusted his mesh hat and veil. The material allowed in air, but …
Jonathan Ottke and Lisa Kilhefner
Jonathan Ottke and Lisa Kilhefner
Jonathan Ottke Response Unlearn Me By Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Unlearn me, please un-know me, unsee this world through my swollen eyes. Unlearn the way you have to detach, Un-run with me. I’m un-knowable as her, as …
Jennifer Fendya,
Madona Tyler LeBlanc,
and Jenny Forrester
Jennifer Fendya,
Madona Tyler LeBlanc,
and Jenny Forrester
Jennifer Fendya “Offering” Response Madona Tyler LeBlanc Inspiration piece (movement video) Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece (writing) I finally woke up, understanding there are people who only love dead people, there are people …
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
Reflecting By MM Panas Acrylic on paper 3′ x 8′ Inspiration piece Reflections of the Season By JoAnn Moore Response Riotous spring colors erupt through the landscape, after weeks of mid-winter warmth, safe in their …
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
Nature’s Cycles By MM Panas 24″ x 18″ Acrylic on paper Response The Memory of Scent By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece The lilacs finally bloomed the day before, spilling sweetness through the window …
Jenny Forrester and Jennifer Fendya
Jenny Forrester and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response We’re going to lose, shredding each other instead of the other side. You know???? —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this …
Jenny Forrester and
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Jenny Forrester and
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Madona Tyler LeBlanc Screenshot from “Reciprocity” video Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response We braid, reach out, reach up, bend, we believe…in art as…I walk up rainbow-painted steps, a giant heart …
Darice M. Jones and Tora Estep
Darice M. Jones and Tora Estep
Tora Estep Oil on canvas Inspiration piece Earthen-Colored Vibes and Futurescapes By Darice Jones Response Bing! Ring! Ding! Hummmmm! Bing! Ring! Ding! Hummmmm! Bop, on pop, on bop, bop, bop. Tap, tip, tap. …
Jennifer Fendya and Darice Jones
Jennifer Fendya and Darice Jones
Darice Jones “Heat Before Spring” Inspiration piece Forgotten Hope for Tomorrow By Jennifer Fendya Response We had a blast though how is it ………we’d forgotten to put money where our mouths caught fire We kissed this park deserted tongues …
Darice Jones and Jennifer Fendya
Darice Jones and Jennifer Fendya
Darice Jones “Return to You” Response Pantoum for My Pandemic Partner By Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece I really saw you for the first time when I had no other place to …