Monthly Archives: September 2016

Cara James and Cathy Stevens Pratt

Cara James and Cathy Stevens Pratt

Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece Below By Cara James Response fins on the surface make your heart beat to the sound of Jaws clenched in wonder. dolphins are dangerous like men are dangerous. their smooth bodies …

 

Amanda Meyer and Kathleen Jordan

Amanda Meyer and Kathleen Jordan

Amanda Meyer Pop Response Memorial Day in France By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece The time was spring The day was fresh The railroad clicked and clucked The bag was filled with wine and …

 

David Taranto and Brian MacDonald

David Taranto and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece   Jesus of Prometheus By David Taranto Response Oh, they must not have been saved to begin with. Pry yourself from the grip of Christ. You are the object so heavy He …

 

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard “And Then What Happened” Inspiration Piece and then what happened By Lisa Nielsen Response A girl pretends to be asleep, her mother runs barefoot across the lobby of the …

 

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard “Calm Up” Response Gravel strewn like breadcrumbs By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece Broken cement sprouts chrome and glass and angles reminiscent of Kandinsky Thru the looking glass below sketchy unfinished sidewalks welcome …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Amanda Meyer

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Amanda Meyer

Amanda Meyer “Spring Rain and Kite Strings” Inspiration piece Kitestrings By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Kite strings like slings of stars Wallop the hand and sting the sky Air puffs and spits of …

 

Lisa Kilhefner and Adam Cornford

Lisa Kilhefner and Adam Cornford

Lisa Kilhefner Response Sardine Machine (Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest) By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece They shoal in sweep formation, swarming gleam with tail-flick wave through smooth curve like a wrist volplaning pivots, …

 

Gabriel Stelian-Shanks
and Jane Hulstrunk

Gabriel Stelian-Shanks
and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece   The Symptoms (The Signs) By Gabriel Stelian-Shanks Response Right as you woke the pale blooms opened as if you were sun As if they knew dew rose on your skin before the day …

 

Terah Van Dusen and Brigitte Nowers

Terah Van Dusen and Brigitte Nowers

Brigitte Nowers Inspiration piece Invasion By Terah Van Dusen Response There were just four of us left shape shifters children and men women and children __ at night we sat watching the winged-rats take flight casting the …

 

Cathy Stevens Pratt
and Cara James

Cathy Stevens Pratt
and Cara James

Cathy Stevens Pratt Response In the Distance By Cara James Inspiration piece In the distance is a boy at the end of a string at the end of a kite at the end …

 

Jan Irene Miller and Leslie Grollman

Jan Irene Miller and Leslie Grollman

Jan Irene Miller “Soft Neck” Acrylic multimedia on paper Response It’s About the Wonder, Isn’t It By Leslie Grollman Inspiration piece I am not the head I have   nor the thoughts that …

 

Margaret Mair and Diane Mayr

Margaret Mair and Diane Mayr

Margaret Mair Echoes Colored pencil on paper Response Insanity at the DMV By Diane Mayr Inspiration piece Having my picture taken over and over and each time expecting to see someone else. ————————————— Note: All of the art, …

 

Seth Leamer and Becca Biggs

Seth Leamer and Becca Biggs

Seth Leamer Hidden Meanings Watercolor/gouache Response Estelle By Rebecca Biggs Inspiration piece She has a new name now a Tibetan Monk softly placed it on our tongues and then used it to call her …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Tracey Riehl

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Tracey Riehl

Tracey Riehl Inspiration piece Sometimes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Sometimes, a sea is just a sea, water caged by intertidal shores, Is nothing more than pools and waves, perhaps estuaries …

 

Tracey Riehl and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Tracey Riehl and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Tracey Riehl Response Leftovers By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece Abby: “Let’s go back.” Barbara: “Why?” Abby: “For leftovers.” Barbara (She holds up a plastic container): “I have mine.” Abby: “Not me. I’m going …

 

Leslie Grollman and Jan Irene Miller

Leslie Grollman and Jan Irene Miller

Jan Irene Miller “Freedom’s Lure” Inspiration piece three dreams (a work-in-progress) by Leslie Grollman Response i          tonight’s dream you are standing in an empty space. a little boy gives you …

 

Brigitte Nowers and Terah Van Dusen

Brigitte Nowers and Terah Van Dusen

Brigitte Nowers “Seen/Hidden” Response Seen/Hidden By Terah Van Dusen Inspiration piece My emotional makeup is running. fushia-colored need blossoms falsely on my cheeks while neon strikes of pencil glow in a most unfavorable way on …

 

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr “Double Meaning” Response Fury Is a Crisis By Amy Souza Inspiration piece It’s said that in relationship we anticipate another’s needs. We understand things about them that they can’t …

 

Karin Edgett and Amy Souza

Karin Edgett and Amy Souza

Karin Edgett Response Bird of Paradise, San Francisco By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Joyful explosion of color To welcome each day So exotic you might Come from Mars Squeeze my hand & Urge me toward …

 

Amy Souza and Karin Edgett

Amy Souza and Karin Edgett

Karin Edgett Inspiration piece When I Go By Amy Souza Response Streaks of gray across Green and yellow sky I lift my pen and let the ink Drip out like blood Never know what …