Erika Raskin

  • Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 4 years ago

    From an early age I enjoyed drawing, and in later years took up oil painting and etching as well. Eventually I decided to go into art full time, which I have continued to do, putting on paper images that simply […]

  • Trudy wrote a new post 4 years ago

    There is a 1990s concept, or perhaps an older concept made new and currently gaining currency, called “re-wilding.” It is the prospect of making tamed and domesticated things wild again. Since 2008 or so, this con […]

  • Lynn Coleman has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2021 Art Contest
     

    I moved to Southern California in 1962 from central California. The first wildfire I remember was in 1967 and started near […]

  • Robert Schultz is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2021 Art Contest

     

    Robert Schultz considers himself a fortunate man. A retired Roanoke College English professor, he still follows his daily work […]

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    The first place winner of Streetlight’s art contest is Robert Schultz of Salem, Va. Schultz’s work, Specimens of the Plague Year, documents a year in the pandemic with his thoughts, quotes from scho […]

  • Sarah and Anna by Emily Littlewood My sister and I have always loved each other, but we really didn’t like each other until I moved out of the house. During a few of the rare o […]

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    Splish! Splash! There’s high drama in the clashes of two wine glasses, martini olives swirling, peppermints spinning in the Schnapps! Watermelon, cherries and tomatoes are sprayed fresh and ready to […]

  • Trudy wrote a new post 4 years, 4 months ago

    The Twitter world ‘blew-up’ with writers weighing in on the “Bad Art Friend” article in the New York Times in early October (NY Times link below).

    I had sympathized with the kidney donor whose life and letter […]

  • I’ve published five books (three nonfiction and two fiction) and there’s so much I wish I would have known before publishing, that I now know through the long, hard road of experience. Whether you’re going the […]

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    Art creation is an organic process for me, where inspiration takes the lead and my hands merely follow. The traditional media in my repertoire includes pen, colored pencil, and acrylic paint. I am also […]

  • “Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge“ asks artists to take an ordinary U.S. Mail postcard and paint, draw or mark it in some way. The resulting missives can focus on the political, societal or public health events that have rocked our collective world since March 2020, or they can highlight an artist’s individual practice in isola…[Read more]

  • Dear Bess,
    Thank you. Yes, Billy would have loved the absurdity
    of it all.

  • Do you constantly compare yourself to other writers?

    Do you set goals for yourself as a writer and then somehow fall short of them every time?

    Do you start new writing practices full of enthusiasm, but then […]

  • Trudy wrote a new post 4 years, 6 months ago

    This is a true story.

    After my husband Billy died in June of 2020, his ‘step daughter’ Zoe, a beautiful and vivacious woman of fifty offered her home in Santa Barbara to hold his memorial. We waited until the […]

  • Such an evocative and beautiful poem.

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    Michael Snyder has traveled the world, camera in hand, documenting the stories of those concerned with environmental change and sustainability and the spaces they inhabit.

    “I want to be very inte […]

  • Hi Don,
    I’m not sure what you’re asking.
    If you like you may email me at trudyhale@gmail.com
    so I can be more prompt in my reply.

    Thanks,
    Trudy Hale, editor
    trudyhale@gmail.com

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    In the quarantined Covid year of 2020, I returned to exploring the figure in my mixed media paintings. Even though it’s been years since I’ve used the human figure as a subject, I’ve always consi […]

  • I cannot separate drawing from writing. Without drawing swallows, I cannot write spring. I am self-taught in art. I am always a student. I observe, I dream and I draw.

    I grew up and live in Ankara, Turkey. […]

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