A Winter's Tale by Trudy Hale 4:30 a.m. A barely audible humming wakes me from a deep sleep. It’s a faint yet unfamiliar sound. I am used to the quiet, to the ordinary sounds, so t […]

Frankie Slaughter Shows at Quirk Gallery   Streetlight: When and how were you introduced to art? Frankie Slaughter: When I was growing up, my mother, a modern dancer, art historian […]

The Drawings of Lorraine Caputo     During my growing up, I experimented with many media. I taught myself how to dig and process clay from local stream beds. I taught m […]

Merry Christmas from Streetlight!   Merry Christmas from all of us at Streetlight!!

The Art of Susan Egbert     My involvement with art began early. My father was a freelance artist in upstate New York and I started showing pen and ink drawings w […]

Photographer Aaron Farrington When tracked down, Aaron Farrington was on a camping trip in the woods of Grayson Highlands State Park. We met soon afterwards in his basement studio […]

The Best Piece of Writing Advice Most Writers Don’t Listen To by Lauren Sapala For most writers, writing is a strong inner calling. It feels like a passion that they can’t ignore, a destiny they must fulfill. And for writers w […]

Interview by J Brooke of Hotel Cuba's author Aaron Hamburger I first met Aaron Hamburger at a cocktail party during grad school. I was a writing student focusing on nonfiction and poetry and Hamburger was part […]

The Paintings of Jeannine Regan     Art runs in my family. My great grandfather was an architect in Germany before they immigrated to the U.S. before WWI. His daughter, m […]

Call of the Wild by Trudy Hale I wanted to write about hunting season here in the rural countryside, the howling packs of dogs, the men and women who sit in muddy trucks on the side […]

The Thrill of the Sale by Emily Littlewood Recently I was able to convince my husband to let go of a small part of his hoard/collectibles (vocab depending on who you ask). This was accomplished […]

Photographer Russell Hart As I Found It: My Mother’s House     Sometimes I envy my baby-boomer friends for having lost their parents quickly. Mine left this life p […]

One August Afternoon by Trudy Hale I am waiting at the Chicken Co-op, pronounced ‘coop,’ inside the Exxon gas station and convenience store in Lovingston, Virginia. A couple of blo […]

Michael Powers: Honorable Mention in Streetlight's 2023 Art Contest     Streetlight: When did you become interested in art? Michael Powers: I have had an interest in artist expression from a very early a […]

2023 Art Contest Winner Shows at Chroma Gallery Until August 26     Emma Knight’s imaginary gardens and landscapes picture magical worlds of color and exotic plants in mysterious, lush settings. They evo […]

A Bridge to Somewhere by Alex Joyner Something there is that doesn’t love a bridge. At least on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Oh, when I lived there, we were proud of the engineering mar […]

New Work by Edward Michael Supranowicz   I grew up studying and using traditional methods and materials in painting, printmaking, and drawing, learning the characteristics and […]

Winners of 2023 Art Search Contest     This year’s Art Search Contest drew from a pool of talented artists far and wide. Their works included handsome photographs and l […]

Afterglow by Emily Littlewood My dog sits right next to me. He’s a fourteen-almost-fifteen year old soft-coated wheaton terrier. He’s recovering from another bout of pneumonia, onl […]