Gena Stutzman and Sue Gleason
Sue Gleason Inspiration piece The Crocus Is A Time Keeper By Gena Stutzman Response the crocus is a time keeper at the start subtle, unpretentious new beginnings usually are her roots maneuver passed …
Cristal Brawley and Sharon Frey
Cristal Brawley and Sharon Frey
Sharon Frey Inspiration piece guided mutation By Cristal Brawley Response She’s got a cloud (it’s a hundred pounds), about to lose the string that’s holding it up. Invites more pain (asks for …
Worthy Evans and Kirsten Brady
Worthy Evans and Kirsten Brady
Kirsten Brady “Conductor” Charcoal, 18″x24″ Inspiration piece Conductor By Worthy Evans Response Kid called artistic picks up a pencil drags circles over newsprint circles circles circles until paper tore and brought kid to another paper and another and another no until no …
Alyscia Cunningham and Lisa Kilhefner
Alyscia Cunningham and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Riverbed By Alyscia Cunningham Response 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 …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Cathy Stevens Pratt
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Cathy Stevens Pratt
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 and Worthy Evans
Kirsten Brady and Worthy Evans
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 and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart
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 …
Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
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 …
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Jonathan Ottke
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Jonathan Ottke
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 …
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
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 …
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
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 and Ray Sharp
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
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 and Jennifer Fendya
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
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 and Kamika Cooper
Kirsten Weeks and Kamika Cooper
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 …
Kamika Cooper and Kirsten Weeks
Kamika Cooper and Kirsten Weeks
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 and Marla Deschenes
Seth Leamer and Marla Deschenes
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 …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
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 and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
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 …
Rebecca Smolen and Diane Mayr
Rebecca Smolen and Diane Mayr
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 and Alyscia Cunningham
Lisa Kilhefner and Alyscia Cunningham
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 …
KJ Hannah Greenberg and Nancy Ramsey
KJ Hannah Greenberg and Nancy Ramsey
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 …
Nancy Ramsey and KJ Hannah Greenberg
Nancy Ramsey and KJ Hannah Greenberg
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 and Rebecca Smolen
Diane Mayr and Rebecca Smolen
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
and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Jonathan Ottke
and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Jonathan Ottke “Memories” Response Bottles By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater 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 …
Darice Jones and Brigitte Nowers
Darice Jones and Brigitte Nowers
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 …