Bianca Schrader
and Jone Rush MacCulloch
Jone Rush MacCulloch
“Portals”
Inspiration piece
Windows
By Bianca Schrader
Response
There’s many different ways to be,
stand out in a crowd, be as still as a tree.
No longer burdened, now I …
Lisa DeShantz-Cook and Jane Rennalls
Jane Rennalls
Mixed media
Inspiration piece
Rituals for the Living
By Lisa Deshantz-Cook
Response
Promise me these things. No, wait. Promise yourself these things:
That you will celebrate the raucous and impossible …
Jane Rennalls and Lisa DeShantz-Cook
Jane Rennalls
Mixed media
Response
Ode to a July Moon
By Lisa DeShantz-Cook
Inspiration piece
I love you better in the empty sky, in bones of rivers,
spiny drops of lake spray …
Jennifer Fendya and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jennifer Fendya
Response
Olympic Skate
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration piece
Slide, glide, Twist and leap
Ice crunches bends are deep
Stepping free and music sings
Skaters fly on cashmere wings
Silken costumes sharp …
Amy Rogers Nazarov and Angi Lewis
“Laundry Song in G”
By Amy Rogers Nazarov
Response
Capo 4, C position
Verse 1
C G D G
That bulb burned out last winter
C G D
The dust is piled high
C …
Angi Lewis and Amy Rogers Nazarov
“Tower of London” (Click link for YouTube)
Music by Amy Rogers Nazarov
Inspiration piece
Life and Art
By Angi Lewis
Response
First, there’s this:
a journey, a setting out
Then
the rhythm of walking
Then
some …
Ash Martins and Betty Nichols
Betty Nichols
Inspiration piece
Vilomah
By Ash Martins
Response
Aila knelt, weeping with the ancient willow tree. Her hands clawed at the musty soil. Gingerly, she lowered the tiny form, …
Quinzee the Artist and Darice M. Jones
Quinzee the Artist
Untitled
Pencil
Response
Black Space
By Darice M. Jones
Inspiration piece
My people are the cool dark vast
The clap and clank
of tom drum
and tambourine
across time and interstellar truth
We rhythm …
Darice M. Jones and Quinzee the Artist
Quinzee the Artist
“Aunti”
Graphic art
Inspiration piece
Emergence
By Darice M. Jones
Response
I came forth from the deep, dark, cool blue(s), purples, and teals of an asylum orb up in …
Jennifer Fendya and
Jewel Beth Davis
Jennifer Fendya
Response
AC Is Too Expensive
By Jewel Beth Davis
Inspiration piece
I was sitting alone in the hospital ward with my Aunt Pauline. I say alone because Pauline …
Bianca Schrader
and Fernanda Valentino
Bianca Schrader
Finding Space
Mixed media
Response
Hemispheres of Separation
By Fernanda Valentino
Inspiration piece
Half a planet separates us,
Space and time become confused,
You awaken. I drift out of consciousness.
The day to …
Betty Nichols and Ash Martins
Betty Nichols
Response
Shipwrecked Spaghetti
By Ash Martins
Inspiration piece
What I wouldn’t give for one last family dinner with mom’s homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs
Garlic bread toasted just right
Chilled …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya
“County Bountiful” (2022)
Inspiration piece
Through the Lens
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response
What nestles in this mask of bliss
As lettuce limey poses
Like living necklace snuggled in
Among the veg …
Darice M. Jones and Shaun Jones
Shaun Jones
Acrylic on canvas and collage
Inspiration piece
Slay
By Darice M. Jones
Response
Sometimes I have to adjust
My spiritual eyes
To know what I am looking at
Whether the suffering in …
Shaun Jones and Darice M. Jones
By Shaun Jones
“First Rite”
Response
Mohair
By Darice M. Jones
Inspiration piece
My name is Bimi and I am co-leader of global Rights of Passage ceremony on the Earth’s parent …
Jone Rush MacCulloch
and Bianca Schrader
Jone Rush MacCulloch
Temples
Response
Temples
By Bianca Schrader
Inspiration piece
All things beautiful
All things sacred
All things worshiped, holy in quiet spaces.
Sun-dappled anything. Curls of steam out of a favorite cup. …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/videoplayback.mp4
Sarah Pizer-Bush
“Yesterday Project”
Video collage & voiceover
Inspiration piece
Me, Myself, and Tomorrow
By Darice Jones
Response
Who would have thought that we’d be here, inside a whole new way of …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush
Watercolor on canvas
Response
Missing Daughters of the Movement
By Darice Jones
Inspiration piece
Latasha with the big amber eyes and glowing almost-black brown-colored skin
descendant of intersecting activisms
of remixed …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush
“Lighting Rituals, Photo/Graphic”
Response
The Problem with Birthdays
By Darice Jones
Inspiration piece
“Why do you think it is that some people really don’t like their birthdays?”
My work BFF …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice M. Jones
Darice M. Jones
“That’s a Stretch”
Enhanced photography
Inspiration piece
Before the Bloom
By Sarah Pizer-Bush
Response
stretching covers across body
seeking comfort
seeking warmth
now is the time to pull all the way in
divine …
Dale Leffler and Sharon A Murphy
Sharon A Murphy
Spring’s Arrival
Mixed media
Response
Till Spring Sings
By Dale Leffler
Inspiration piece
Now there is nothing
no words on the wing
no voice in the wind
no color at the berm.
Only …
Jewel Beth Davis
and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya
Inspiration piece
Mystery of the Peregrine Falcon
By Jewel Beth Davis
Response
A dead bird lay in my path as I stepped out onto my wood planked porch. …
Dale Leffler Sharon A. Murphy
Sharon A. Murphy
Inspiration piece
Untitled
By Dale Leffler
Response
She, half
Madonna Negro,
half Tara Buddha
beauty
personified
in peaceful
repose.
Upon her head
crown of flowers
yellow and red
though her
golden eyes were
closed
all worldly
compassion arose
From below her
center
throat inscription
read …
Missy Lambert and Juleen Johnson
Juleen Johnson
Inspiration piece
This Old Bird Writes Something
By Missy Lambert
Response
It’s not easy to write when I feel like an old bird that has to dip its …
Juleen Johnson and Missy Lambert
Juleen Johnson
Response
Ragged Heart Song
By Missy Lambert
Inspiration piece
Can’t see where you are now
nothing familiar, lost in your own house.
Your grip is slipping, no foothold to be …