Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Alyscia Cunningham Response Riverbed I thought a distant memory, like a faded path of pebbled tea. Beaded sounds encircled me, aligned my head so peacefully. Turned my head to think …
Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece Beginnings Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Undulating shifting change From light to dark and left to right Fabric, weave and wavy soft Hard and tough like day and night Reaching, …
Kirsten Brady “Poly Glyphs” 14″ x 17″ Graphite on paper Response Site Specific By Worthy Evans Inspiration piece Absence would be a way of cottoning to its significance. A field photograph of close-cut wheat, an …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Reciprocity Inspiration Piece Photo Opp Annmarie Lockhart Response Alright, babe. Selfie time! Smile for the camera! Say mozzarella! Check it, this light totally brings out my eyes. I’m definitely posting this. I’m …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Transition Response Toasted Wishes Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece Ten years ago I sat at a table with a dozen friends, half a lifetime and a thousand miles away. We toasted four decades …
Spent Magnolia Pistils Jonathan Ottke Inspiration Piece And so it is Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Response This magnolia tree in our front yard feels magic to me. It isn’t hard to imagine her blossoms as cups of tea poured over …
Ray Sharp Response Jennifer Fendya Inspiration After the Flood I wake up at 6 AM to the sound of rain and think, “I’m not in Houston.” My day will be, as yesterday …
Jennifer Fendya — “tugged-tied truths” – pencil on paper Response Ray Sharp Inspiration To Resist We are tugged by the polemics of push and pull As if truth itself could be tied …
Jennifer Fendya — Lake Zurich Pastoral Inspiration Ray Sharp Response Under the Garden Bridge It’s a cygnet, she said, when I called it a duckling, and still I think it might become a …
Ray Sharp — Ice Storm Inspiration Jennifer Fendya Response I’ve been dreaming of flying again, of pushing clouds over a frozen lake, down to where trees along the shoreline stick out their …
Kirsten Weeks collage with graphite, acrylic, paper, water crayons, and paint film Response Contain Yourself By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece please contain yourself don’t spill your chaos in my space when you rearrange …
Kirsten Weeks acrylic and graphite on paper Inspiration piece Sunset Bound By Kamika Cooper Response released into the sunset we spun and danced and laughed wildly like children who just learned to run …
Seth Leamer Time Squirrel – Watercolor – 12″ x 16″ Response Marla Deschenes Untitled Inspiration Piece Turn the clocks back in the fall And ponder how I am always Chasing time Elusive in its …
Jay Young Gerard Red Seeing Red Response Lisa Nielsen Random Thoughts While Waiting for You to Die Inspiration Piece Fear was all the rage when you raged. shrill crescendo punctuated by a …
Jay Young Gerard Myra’s Niche Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Still Processing Response Mangled and incontinent with leprous bedsores, you are sure this will be estrangement’s undoing. I can watch you suffer for …
Diane Mayr It’s Always About Man Inspiration piece Rebecca Smolen The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Response The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Food and drink within Apples are quite the …
Lisa Kilhefner Response Alyscia Cunningham Inspiration piece A Woman I Am Unique natural curve, The moon strong urge, Our monthly red cycle, Make moody feelings psycho. Body fit for birth, Creating life here on earth, Because …
Enigma by KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Enigma by Nancy Ramsey Inspiration Piece Every line I write Hides more Every word Another brick Each expression Hides me further Emotion cloaked in Confusion. Note: All of the art, writing, and …
KJ Hannah Greenberg-Sunset Inspiration Piece Orange by Nancy Ramsey Response Orange dips between the rise. Neutral back Drops to layers. Yellow, blue streak. Reflect back for review. Sky sees itself A tempered view. Note: All of the …
Diane Mayr The Reason Why Response Rebecca Smolen Van Gogh Could See It Inspiration piece Van Gogh Could See It If you were to really look at a fading sun disintegrating into the horizon, its’ …
Jonathan Ottke “Memories” Response Amy Ludwig VanDerwater “Bottles” Inspiration piece In my mind I keep a cupboard full of bottles on a painted shelf Each one holds a memory. I made these bottles by …
Brigitte Nowers Inspiration Piece Inkling By Darice Jones Response There were sparkly little insights she had now that she didn’t then At this point, they seemed to tether her spirit to …
Matthew Levine “Abandoned Power Plant” Inspiration piece Cleanup By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy O’Hara started reading to sixth graders in a rundown school in a rundown city, nine miles up …
Matthew Levine “Blank Slate” Response Doris By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece NB: The story is true. The names are fictitious. It was a railroad flat in Chelsea. You opened the …
Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Splay By Marie Kelly Response membrane of memory: cells cast together from a sense of urgency, muscle-memory, soul-memory memory of hand on throat, abduction of thighs, couldn’t wait for timetables …