SPARK

Quentin Paquette and Paula Lantz

Paula Lantz Dark Energy 28 Inspiration piece Under The Carport By Quentin Paquette Response The wind is coming up, and the clouds are moving in fast. When the sun went down, …

Gred Adkins and Jim Tretick

Sugar By Greg Adkins Response Who knew? Who could have ever known that my life would take this sort of turn? She was cute.. outstandingly so. I remember that …

Jan Irene Miller
and Cheryl Somers Aubin

Jan Irene Miller Acrylic on paper, 23 x 30 inches Response Memories–By the Number By Cheryl Aubin Inspiration piece Right up there with life’s major stresses, like getting married, moving, or …

Alisa A. Laska and Amy L. Alley

Amy L. Alley Sisters Oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches Inspiration piece Fiercely Loyal to the End By Alisa A. Laska Response My best friend my worst enemy my sister. Two halves of one …

Jan Irene Miller and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Jan Irene Miller Acrylic on paper, 23 x 30 inches Response Death of a Young Boy from the ‘Hood: Stratified Healthcare’s Disgrace in Serving the General Public By KJ Hannah …

Christina Brockett
and DiAna Smith

Christina Brockett Enduring Response The Stitched Sun By DiAna Smith Inspiration piece Sorrow-filled screams pierce the wire mesh of our front door screen on this pleasantly cool late August morning. That’s …

Adam Garcia and Ray Sharp

Music: One Fallen Apple. By Adam Garcia Response One Fallen Apple By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece It was the day of falling apples. The tree was heavy with fruit, branches taut under the …

Neil Ellman and Rusty Lynn

Rusty Lynn Euclid Can’t Dance Inspiration Piece Euclid Can Dance By Neil Ellman Response Euclid never said He could dance Or was inspired By Terpsichore But he could calculate The rhythm Of a square The swaying of a …

Tori Lane and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Pimental Inspiration piece Late Morning Walk By Tori Lane Response The little blonde runs ahead of her mom on the sidewalk, slightly too big toddler jeans hanging on her diaper, pink …

Amy Souza and Rebecca Harris

Amy Souza Watercolor on paper, 24 x 8 inches Response The Good One By Rebecca Harris Inspiration piece Medical City; at least the name is clean the rest is a white-hot mess …

Amy Souza and Elizabeth Wexler

Amy Souza Possibilities Watercolor on canvas, 15 x 30 inches Response Doors By Elizabeth Wexler Inspiration piece So many years of feeling locked in one room A door opening, maybe, every few years… Now …

Glen Spangler and Manny Beltran

Manny Beltran Inspiration piece Shelter By Glenn Spangler Response Bobby should have worn gloves; his hands already stung from the cold. It would be okay though. They wouldn’t …

Kathy Doran and Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton Inspiration piece Headlong into Oblivion (reflections on the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Indonesia) By Kathy Doran Response The deaf man didn’t hear Vesuvius roar The …

DiAna Hart Smith
and Cara Mayo

Cara Mayo Inspiration piece First Memory By DiAna Hart Smith Response Light appears around the edges of the dark beginning of a new summer day. I’m standing in my crib …

Mel Berning and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Untitled By Mel Berning Response The bartender laid the napkin squares before my drink coaster. “I thought you’d like these.” I retrieved my pen from my …

Mel Berning and
Brian Eugenio Herrera

Mel Berning Response Lloyd’s Ball By Brian Eugenio Herrera Inspiration piece The ride to get here had been awful. The kind of ride that makes you doubt the trip to …

Urmilla Khanna
and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Divinity By Urmilla Khanna Response Divinity is a patchwork of squares and hexagons. It is yellow and blue and indigo and purple. It is paisley woven …

Carl Rauscher and
Christina Brockett

Christina Brockett Inspiration piece Time’s Cruel Sands By Carl Rauscher Response “Looks like scratches to me” I grabbed the magnifying glass from Tank’s hand and dragged him closer to the light …

Christina Brockett
and Carl Rauscher

Christina Brockett Response Dockside By Carl Rauscher Inspiration piece “Want to know a secret, Grandpa? There’s no fish in this river. Probably hasn’t been any here since before I was …

Cara Mayo and
DiAna Hart Smith

Cara Mayo Response A Telling Time By DiAna Hart Smith Inspiration piece “He won’t make it,” the doctors’ chorus cautions me. “Are you saying there is no hope; no promise …

Laura Shovan and Judy Zatsick

Judy Zatsick Window to Her Soul Oil, 28 x 36 inches Inspiration Piece Window to Her Soul By Laura Shovan Response Shadow of a blue dress moves like oil on water. Beyond the …

Judy Zatsick and Laura Shovan

Judy Zatsick Celadon Spring Oil, 8 x 6 inches Response The Listening of Plants By Laura Shovan Inspiration Piece On the buffet where she kept her celadon dishes, Mother placed a vase of …

Caroline Davies
and Theresa Kulstad

Theresa Kulstad Inspiration piece Study in Blue By Caroline Davies Response With her lavender lips signalling disease she gives herself to music Chopin is her favourite. She imagines them meeting. with their shared Polish ancestry, hers …

Lauren Silberman and Cheryl Somers Aubin

Lauren Silberman Papercut Response Remembrances of 9/11 By Cheryl Somers Aubin Inspiration piece He was standing out in front of his church, facing the cars slowly going by, his hands clasped …

Helen Whittaker
and Cheryl Leibovitz

Cheryl Leibovitz Inspiration piece Tasting Freedom By Helen Whittaker Response Beyond the bars a crescent moon rises like a dead fish in a stagnant pond. Poking out from under the bed a pair of striped …

Quentin Paquette and Paula Lantz

Gred Adkins and Jim Tretick

Jan Irene Millerand Cheryl Somers Aubin

Alisa A. Laska and Amy L. Alley

Jan Irene Miller andKJ Hannah Greenberg

Christina Brockettand DiAna Smith