Erika Raskin

  • Trudy wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago

    I did the same thing in the first two minutes upon meeting her for the first time that I did while sitting with a friend of more than 20 years two days before. I cried. I felt humbled and felt the tears well up, […]

  • While at first glance Virginia artists Robin Braun and Rob Browning seem drawn to different subjects, techniques and philosophies, their unexpected collaboration has surprised and delighted them […]

  • wow. what a nose for nuance!
    I never connected the yellows…

    thanks, Sharon!

  • Streetlight Poetry Editor Sharron Singleton and Alan Box Levine will read thier nature/earth poems at the closing of “Green Mind” show at Chroma Gallery. The readings will be from 4-5 p.m. Saturday Janunary 28 at Chroma, 201 East Main Street, 2nd floor, Charlottesville.

    Singleton’s chapbook, A Thin Thread of Water was published in 2010 and will…[Read more]

  • Trudy wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago

    This past week I had an unusual experience in a memoir class. Several of us had turned in an excerpt to be critiqued during class. The workshop leader asked another writer to read my excerpt aloud. We were not to […]

  • Writing a story from a foreign or external perspective offers not only the reward of expanding your own awareness about people but can also lead to empathy for others that you may not have had before. To write […]

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    Stephanie Gross was intrigued early by pictures and their stories. “I spent a lot of time as a kid looking at pictures,” she says. ”My mom was a docent at the National Gallery and she used to walk me thr […]

  • The squeaky snow in Indiana reminds me of growing up in Poland. So does the temperature, seven degrees Fahrenheit. I’m glad it’s not seventy and sunny. Better days for sitting down and writing rarely come […]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

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    Drishti, Sharon Fishel

    Friday January 6, Chroma Gallery will host “Green Mind,” an exhibition conceived by D.C. art critic and curator, J.W. Mahoney involving the paintings of Sharon Fishel and Beverly Ryan. Based on Henri Bergson’s 1907 book “Creative Evolution,” Mahoney’s “Green Mind” discussed the elan vital, or creative force,…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

    33cab7ea-a2a5-472b-a615-35e1f16c8727

    Drishti, Sharon Fishel

    Friday January 6, Chroma Gallery will host “Green Mind,” an exhibition conceived by D.C. art critic and curator, J.W. Mahoney involving the paintings of Sharon Fishel and Beverly Ryan. Based on Henri Bergson’s 1907 book “Creative Evolution,” Mahoney’s “Green Mind” discussed the elan vital, or creative force,…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

    33cab7ea-a2a5-472b-a615-35e1f16c8727

    Drishti, Sharon Fishel

    Friday January 6, Chroma Gallery will host “Green Mind,” an exhibition conceived by D.C. art critic and curator, J.W. Mahoney involving the paintings of Sharon Fishel and Beverly Ryan. Based on Henri Bergson’s 1907 book “Creative Evolution,” Mahoney’s “Green Mind” discussed the elan vital, or creative force,…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

    33cab7ea-a2a5-472b-a615-35e1f16c8727

    Drishti, Sharon Fishel

    Friday January 6, Chroma Gallery will host “Green Mind,” an exhibition conceived by D.C. art critic and curator, J.W. Mahoney involving the paintings of Sharon Fishel and Beverly Ryan. Based on Henri Bergson’s 1907 book “Creative Evolution,” Mahoney’s “Green Mind” discussed the elan vital, or creative force,…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

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    Ellen Hathaway, Song Inside I,II,III, 2016. Acrylic with charcoal on canvas, 36 x 36 x 2 inches (each panel 12 x 36 x 2 inches
     

    Les Yeux du Monde presents Source: New Paintings by Ellen Hathaway from January 6 – February 12, 2017. The Opening Reception is 5-7 p.m. Friday, January 6.

    Hathaway uses acrylic, graphite, charcoal, pastels, o…[Read more]

  • The Blue Shirt
    As the doors close on 2016 we may find ourselves casting a backward glance, not only on the past year but back over our entire life as well, especially if we’ve reached a certain age. For many of u […]

  • Mount Fuji
     
    My friend always wanted to see the mountain
    with its eternal snow, but she never
    crossed the ocean to Japan. Instead,
    she bought a small reproduction
    of Hokusai’s “Boy Viewing Mount Fuji […]

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    Donald Trump said he would make America great again if he became president. Now, as his inauguration approaches, each news cycle brings further proof that if he succeeds on his own terms, the moral c […]

  • Dazzling Dinoflagellates
     
    We gather when the moon is hidden
    in earth shadow, stand in a group to hear facts,
    take advice, don life jackets that cover our lungs,
    our hearts. We drive toward a cove at […]

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    Fly Me, egg tempera on panel, 36×36,” 2016

     

    Virginia artist Susan Jamison — set to speak December 17 at Focus Contemporary Art, 385 Valley Street, Scottsville — has been rescheduled for February 18. Admission is free and seating is limited.

    socaughtup

    So Caught Up, egg tempera on panel, 36×48″

    Susan Jamison is best known for her i…[Read more]

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    flyme-susan_jamison

    Fly Me, egg tempera on panel, 36×36,” 2016

     

    Virginia artist Susan Jamison — set to speak December 17 at Focus Contemporary Art, 385 Valley Street, Scottsville — has been rescheduled for February 18. Admission is free and seating is limited.

    socaughtup

    So Caught Up, egg tempera on panel, 36×48″

    Susan Jamison is best known for her i…[Read more]

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    flyme-susan_jamison

    Fly Me, egg tempera on panel, 36×36,” 2016

     

    Virginia artist Susan Jamison will speak Saturday, December 17, from 6-8 p.m. at Focus Contemporary Art, 385 Valley Street, Scottsville. Admission is free and seating is limited.

    socaughtup

    So Caught Up, egg tempera on panel, 36×48″

    Susan Jamison is best known for her intricate egg tempera…[Read more]

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