Elizabeth Dougherty
and Amy Souza
Elizabeth Dougherty “Time to Strike” Response Ed Burns By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Would you know him if you passed on the sidewalk? The way you can spot Quebecois even before they …
11 Jun
Marilyn Ackerman and Channie Greenberg
Marilyn Ackerman and Channie Greenberg
“Butterfly Palm” by Marilyn Ackerman Mixed media on canvas Response to: Asiatic Arecas, inspiration piece By © KJ Hannah (Channie) Greenberg Asiatic arecas, all lambent in the sun, Tall stepstools to celestial …
11 Jun
Channie Greenberg and Marilyn Ackerman
Channie Greenberg and Marilyn Ackerman
“Hela” paper collage by Marilyn Ackerman. Inspiration piece for poem by Channie Greenberg Hela By © KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Hela has birds for brains. Penguins, really. They sit Upon her noggin, …
05 Jun
Amanda C. Brainerd and Michelle Greco
Amanda C. Brainerd and Michelle Greco
Amanda C. Brainerd Response Origin Story By Michelle Greco Inspiration piece I’m from a neighborhood where kids put you in a schoolyard headlock in third grade. I’m from stained glass. Jesus looks down on …
05 Jun
Jonathan Ottke and
Cheryl Somers Aubin
Jonathan Ottke and
Cheryl Somers Aubin
Jonathan Ottke “Thanksgiving Moon” Response A Very Special “Thanks” Giving By Cheryl Somers Aubin Inspiration piece “No,” I told my sister when she called the other day, “we’re still waiting.” Waiting for …
05 Jun
Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Jonathan Ottke
Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke Reflections glass Inspiration piece A Sign By Cheryl Somers Aubin Response As I look for a sign from my father I wonder… Will it be a white feather from an …
04 Jun
Kamika Cooper and Lisa Pimental
Kamika Cooper and Lisa Pimental
Geraniums Lisa Pimental Acrylic on wood Inspiration piece Paths We Laid Kamika Cooper Response we used to be linear raised up from the village seeds our great-grandmothers spat we were bathed in Spring rains …
04 Jun
Lisa Pimental and Kamika Cooper
Lisa Pimental and Kamika Cooper
Done Lisa Pimental Acrylic on wood Response Can’t Say Love Kamika Cooper Inspiration Can’t say that another has ever made me feel this way I float on hopes and dreams of her like …
04 Jun
Amy Tingle and Hildie Block
Amy Tingle and Hildie Block
Amy Tingle Response Honey Tangerine By Hildie Block Inspiration piece Irene, the 12 year-old granddaughter of Holocaust survivors takes some risks in an orange grove with a boy named Jesse. “Opa, …
03 Jun
Michelle Greco and
Jenny Cutler Lopez
Michelle Greco and
Jenny Cutler Lopez
Michelle Greco “Explosive Bloom” Gouache in Sketchbook Response My Girl Angel Is As Shallow As Sin By Jenny Cutler Lopez Inspiration piece I meet Angel by the metal payphone outside 7-11. I stroll …
02 Jun
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Afternoon Delight Inspiration Piece Things They Didn’t See By Annmarie Lockhart Response She didn’t see: the time it took to flatten and stack the boxes that carried onions, broccoli, bean …
02 Jun
Annmarie Lockhart and
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Annmarie Lockhart and
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Power in the Clouds Response Ladder By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece Maybe if we climb high enough above the clouds like Dorothy, beyond the noise of Babel, the tastes of the …
02 Jun
Agnes Marton and Amy Tingle
Agnes Marton and Amy Tingle
Amy Tingle Inspiration piece Some By Agnes Marton Response Some petals are ambitious, life and lifelike, keen to attack, build purging barriers when needed, always at cruising altitude, eager to respond. Some petals are lost, feel misfit, …
02 Jun
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard Puppy Inspiration piece Both Sides of That Face By Lissa Nielsen Response I’ve been talking out both sides of my mouth, compromising the urge to flee with the imitation of …
01 Jun
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard Holes Aren’t Necessarily Round Response The Holes in Our Story By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece They say you never really know how damaged someone is until you try to …
01 Jun
Terah Van Dusen
and Lisa Kilhefner
Terah Van Dusen
and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece The Way of a Woman By Terah Van Dusen Response Once, early on in our relationship I shared a hotel room with my man three of his buddies There were two …
01 Jun
Patricia Hayward and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Patricia Hayward and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Patricia Hayward Response Conversations at the Hirschorn By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Bulbous figures play in “Conversation” Sculpted into liquid stone expressions daring us To recall the light, the airy, and malicious …
01 Jun
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Cheryl Lavoie
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Cheryl Lavoie
Cheryl Lavoie Giverny Watercolor Inspiration piece Giverny Ever Alive By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Burst of opening flowers shroud a country house Petals, tiny fingers, giving birth to brush Paint leaching color from the …
01 Jun
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Patricia Hayward
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Patricia Hayward
Patricia Hayward Pen and ink Inspiration piece Black on White By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The scribble, the smudge of ink and paper fighting with each other in a frenzy of activity, agitation, …
01 Jun
Lisa Kilhefner and
Terah Van Dusen
Lisa Kilhefner and
Terah Van Dusen
Lisa Kilhefner Response So I Am a Woman By Terah Van Dusen Inspiration piece So I am a woman occupying a square a circle a triangle a rectangle a glob of space of air of spit or …
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