Darice Jones and Brigitte Nowers
Brigitte Nowers Inspiration Piece Inkling By Darice Jones Response There were sparkly little insights she had now that she didn’t then At this point, they seemed to tether her spirit to …
17 Jun
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine “Abandoned Power Plant” Inspiration piece Cleanup By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy O’Hara started reading to sixth graders in a rundown school in a rundown city, nine miles up …
17 Jun
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine “Blank Slate” Response Doris By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece NB: The story is true. The names are fictitious. It was a railroad flat in Chelsea. You opened the …
13 Jun
Marie Kelly and Lisa Kilhefner
Marie Kelly and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Splay By Marie Kelly Response membrane of memory: cells cast together from a sense of urgency, muscle-memory, soul-memory memory of hand on throat, abduction of thighs, couldn’t wait for timetables …
08 Jun
Marilyn Ackerman and Adam Cornford
Marilyn Ackerman and Adam Cornford
Marilyn Ackerman Response Geysir By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece Under far cumulus cliffs in a circle of bone soil one vapor plume leans and twists Brief white spurts tease with collapse until ghosts boil ascending Peaked hoods and shoulders warp …
08 Jun
Adam Cornford and Marilyn Ackerman
Adam Cornford and Marilyn Ackerman
Marilyn Ackerman Inspiration piece Tree Farmers By Adam Cornford Response These are the true tree farmers they do not plant plantations uniform grids of pine and fir like power-poles in rows …
08 Jun
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Nancy Ramsey
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Nancy Ramsey
KJ Hannah Greenberg “Begin” Response Begin By Nancy Ramsey Inspiration piece The hope of beginnings Is it’s own addictive drug. Seductive promise lures Attention onward To the next big thing. Beguiling with her lies- Come, look at …
08 Jun
Nancy Ramsey
and KJ Hannah Greenberg
Nancy Ramsey
and KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg “Social Pressure” Inspiration Piece Harmony By Nancy Ramsey Response Bright lights, Magenta boarders, A diversity of greens- The innocent marker lines of children. The city is my living room, She said. And why choose …
06 Jun
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
MM Panas “That Ship Has Sailed” Inspiration piece Eternities By JoAnn Moore Response Drown me blue in your depthless sky, soft as the incoming fog. Ebb me full of salt until I find rhythm in the …
06 Jun
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Ascension Takes Time. And Practice” Response The Composition of Expectations By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece I can’t take on gravity while smiling rancid thoughts. Floating thru your …
06 Jun
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “Palettes 1 and 2” Inspiration piece Survival of the Fittest By Lisa Nielsen Response The art of tuning out Turns a heart to pulp And makes a sin of dance the …
06 Jun
Shaune McCarthy and Jewel Beth Davis
Shaune McCarthy and Jewel Beth Davis
Shaune McCarthy “If You’re Going to Help, Help” Response Jesus at the Rite Aid By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece I walk through the aisles of the local Rite Aid. It …
06 Jun
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas “Dancing with Red” Acrylic on paper, size: 30” x 22″ Response January Saturday …(or Ode to Candlemas) By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece Despite the recent rains one of the backyard cherries holds fast …
05 Jun
Lauren Carney and Kamika Cooper
Lauren Carney and Kamika Cooper
Lauren Carney “Garden of One” ink, paint, pen, and pencil mixed media Response One Woman By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece I am one woman the one who won your love and captured your …
05 Jun
Tora Estep and Pippa Possible
Tora Estep and Pippa Possible
Tora Estep, “Abandoned,” charcoal, pastel, and collage on paper Response Pippa Possible, “Nervously, Tenderly,” erasure technique and paper cutting, using pages of a vintage novel; chair, acrylic paint, sticky tape …
05 Jun
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Susan Burton
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Susan Burton
Susan Burton “Roses” Inspiration piece Breathless Roses By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Tired, dipping, petals starved The roses begin to leave Too much sun, deprived of water The swords of time, a time to …
05 Jun
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Bluet No. 665 By Ray Sharp Response You came to me, yellow butterfly, flitting the deep blue sky of my golden summer. Love bloomed a thousand dandelions. You grew sunflowers and …
05 Jun
Amy Souza and Julia Laxer
Amy Souza and Julia Laxer
Amy Souza “I Wrapped You in Cellophane to Protect My Heart” Response Fossils By Julia Laxer Inspiration piece fossils found in: the abdomen of every woman the roman candle of a man. a psychotic …
05 Jun
Julia Laxer and Amy Souza
Julia Laxer and Amy Souza
Amy Souza Inspiration piece Kissing Phobia By Julia Laxer Response My eyes were her eyes in the mysterious room where neither of us wore a face. My eyes were in her living room of doubt and soiled dresses. Give me …
05 Jun
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya
Ray Sharp “Curtsy” Mixed media Response I’ve Been Clearing Clutter By Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece I’ve been clearing clutter from my house. How did it get in? Did I carry these objects up the …
05 Jun
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
Jennifer Fendya “Smile Back” Response Friday By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece put that down america and walk with me to the top of the hill we’ll bring the bottle take off our shirts and smile back at …
05 Jun
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
Jennifer Fendya and Ray Sharp
Ray Sharp Inspiration piece (the) hunger 162 By Jennifer Fendya Response eyes flicker up-screen enough to blush, unmistakable. love, pull back! the audience, the crowd sadly rules time spent. “well, speak for all,” say our hearts. the crowd has wiped …
04 Jun
Sylvie Dakota Huhn
and Kamika Cooper
Sylvie Dakota Huhn
and Kamika Cooper
Sylvie Dakota Huhn Response Freed from the Jar By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece You found a new home with a little night life, like in those 70s disco songs full of the …
04 Jun
Susan Burton and Kathleen Jordan
Susan Burton and Kathleen Jordan
Susan Burton Untitled Response Jazz Portal Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece La Belle Vie she chants As his breath paints pictures Through the harmonica Love, pain, Paris in the spring Sweet sugar laced with poignant …
04 Jun
Jewel Beth Davis and Shaune McCarthy
Jewel Beth Davis and Shaune McCarthy
Shaune McCarthy Inspiration piece Talk to Me By Jewel Beth Davis Response Rudi had a lot to say this evening, but what was unusual was that Gwen wasn’t saying a …
Monthly Archives: June 2017