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 …
Missy Lambert and Juleen Johnson
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 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 …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Something Swirling Within” Response 44 Falls to Rapture By Darice Jones Inspiration iece 422 Falls To Rapture Eight times a year since the day she was born Something within would swirl …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Together Not Alone” Inspiration piece Healing Time By Darice Jones Response There is kind of healing that happens in solitude Just you and the breath Just you and the precious stone Just …
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece How the Heart Works By Amy Souza Response You hear tapping on hardwood like the dog still exists. Wind shattered the night – rumbled windows, swung porch …
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley Response Tourist Town By Amy Souza Inspiration piece They haven’t solved the murder, Judy tells me. No one knows what happened but they assume the boy rode out …
Jennifer Fendya and Dale Leffler
Jennifer Fendya and Dale Leffler
Jennifer Fendya Response Do You Know Hunger’s Touch? By Dale Leffler Inspiration piece Do you know hunger’s touch? Do you have an appetite that comes after watching mashed potato clouds drift over …