Lisa Kilhefner and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr Inspiration piece Posies Lisa Kilhefner Response My garden, it is yours to see and touch and wander into. Watch the posies, calm along the breath of wind. They mind so …
Diane Mayr and Lisa Kilhefner
Diane Mayr and Lisa Kilhefner
Diane Mayr She Speaks Snow response Lisa Kilhefner New York Inspiration piece New York By Lisa Kilhefner She sneezes; his heart wrinkles in a metal trashcan on the corner of the room. He weeps, …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Linda Sorrells – Smith
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Linda Sorrells – Smith
Linda Sorrells-Smith Inspiration Piece Vision of Honeyed White Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Velvet svelte and curve of wing A petal large and soft of view A center deep and dark and honeyed A …
Kamika Cooper and Brian MacDonald
Kamika Cooper and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Photography Inspiration piece Shaper by Kamika Cooper Response come on and shape me bend and me make me come alive use your hands to mold me i know you’ll blow me up …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine, “Thinking of Pay Dirt” Response Pay Dirt By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Jimmy finally hit pay dirt at the Alanon lunch meeting on his next to last …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine, “Unfinished Business” Inspiration piece Anne Hutchison By Robert Haydon Jones Response The moment the artist showed Jimmy O’Hara the watercolor of the space where the bar that had been …
Amy Souza
and Marla Deschenes
Amy Souza
and Marla Deschenes
Amy Souza Response Untitled By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece Turn the clocks back in the fall And ponder how I am always Chasing time Elusive in its grip on all the moments in …
Sue Gleason and Gena Stutzman
Sue Gleason and Gena Stutzman
Sue Gleason Response The Feather By Gena Stutzman Inspiration piece the knowing wind lifts feathers placing some along the lonely roadside others are placed in summer gardens between rows of arugula and lacy, …
Gena Stutzman and Sue Gleason
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 …