Monthly Archives: March 2023

Fernanda Valentino
and Bianca Schrader

Fernanda Valentino
and Bianca Schrader

Bianca Schrader Ojos de Dios Acrylic on wood Inspiration piece Eye of God Watch Over Me By Fernanda Valentino Response Along the path that is this life Our journey winds and turns As we …

 

Bianca Schrader
and Jone Rush MacCulloch

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

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 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 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

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

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

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 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

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 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
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 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

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

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

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
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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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 …