Streetlight Magazine | Erika Raskin | Friends Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/erika-raskin/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Erika Raskin's friends. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:56:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c2d5627bf80449888f305c566eec6ab1 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=42127 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:18 -0400 Coming Down the Mountain by E. H. Jacobs The way down is always harder than the way up. On the way up a mountain, your muscles strain to push you vertically. Going down, you’re already t […]

]]> 7cda8dac5180a2474764ea54397320da Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41999 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:37 -0400 The Artful Constructs of Scott F. Smith by Russell Hart When photographer Scott Smith isn’t observing the world, he’s building one from scratch. Standing in his well-ordered studio at […]

]]> cedbba859127a0f7c21074c801ad08bb Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41663 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:00:36 -0500 Sefunmi Adeola's Focus on African Subjects Nigerian artist Sefunmi Adeola puts his sharp eyes to work as a photographer, illustrator and textile designer focusing on his African […]

]]> 69a80b31f53e263862ce91bb103a7b59 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41852 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:04 -0500 After the Blizzard by Trudy Hale We had warning. A dangerous blizzard sweeps across the eastern United States. Be prepared. The young man stacks firewood on my porch and in the […]

]]> e91310107e579ee8be343ba9aaed44c4 Elizabeth Howard started the topic Jim Henry Retrospective at McGuffey Art Center in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits https://streetlightmag.com/lamplighter-forum/topic/jim-henry-retrospective-at-mcguffey-art-center/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:41:33 -0500  


Sarah B. Smith Gallery
Jim Henry
Interference: A Retrospective of the Paintings of J.M. Henry
February 6 – March 1
This February, McGuffey Art Center celebrates the life and art of the late J.M.…[Read more]

]]> 05f81d790c54450344b156fe968eac00 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41759 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:48 -0500 Lisa Macchi: Disrupting the Paint by Russell Hart                        Lisa Macchi took twenty-five years off from art, but now she’s painting Charlottesville red.  Sitting in her McGuffey Art C […]

]]> 39a58f15ed83ef2a6713a465d9c41c18 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41455 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:34 -0500 Fine Art and Craftsman Alan Box Levine “I’m always having a conversation with myself between art and craft. Art is for the heart and craft for the wallet,” says fine artist and fine craft […]

]]> 52664aaaa341be0d769f85dbc2b5ac9a Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41535 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:00:50 -0500 Ho Ho Streetlight by Trudy Hale The season of Christmas swoops in, ahead of me and my best intentions. I’ll never be a person who has all the family and friends crossed off the l […]

]]> f4f84f23690f0bb95324c73caf36b811 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41231 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:00:30 -0500 What is Happening?!? by Emily Littlewood I used to laugh at my husband and call him old man (he’s nine years older) when he would reminisce on his childhood, and how much better it was than c […]

]]> 2d9a04bd016ce4ef31617d32fee02665 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40986 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:37 -0500 New Photography by Kate Salvi                         “I choose to take photos because I liked the idea of being able to stop time for a mo […]

]]> 29758bb76cacf0596a8a4b3bba1658ac Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41373 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:00:43 -0500 With a Little Help From My Friends by Trudy Hale In the pre-dawn morning, thirty-six hours before my daughter’s wedding, she enters my bedroom. Her flashlight beam wakes me. Good heavens. Half awake, […]

]]> 6bcd35d6838b391b15a0c47f9f1bbf01 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41142 Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:13 -0500 The Eclectic Photography of William C. Crawford   For many years my photography was travel-based, focusing on ghost towns and other places in glorious decline. Decay and rust attracted me […]

]]> 52aeaca01c8f79f7f5451ef55acc129e Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40868 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:00:43 -0400 Barbara MacCallum's Androgynous Art Artist Barbara MacCallum claims androgyny as her creative terrain. “I’m interested in male and female, nothing too macho or too feminine but the gap […]

]]> 82877f4e7e65ee12c15d34bcdb533970 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41125 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:24 -0400 The Wedding Dress by Trudy Hale Weddings create their own weather. I had no idea. I did not have a big wedding myself. It was spontaneous and the only white article of clothing I had […]

]]> bc3b7c16b617c83110fe1a47f771b504 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40261 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:02 -0400 Portraits by Nigerian Artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel   The portraits of Nigerian artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel reveal his empathy, respect and sensitivity to his subjects. “The suffering an […]

]]> ec7ec2ac55dab771a176c50b8be17b08 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40753 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:00:16 -0400 To Be a New Yorker by Elizabeth Meade Howard   The train whistle trumpets its warning. I watch the woods, meadows and marshland slowly morph into urban views and city skylines. […]

]]> bf8e79916fb9561ce874dd02307e702f Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40807 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:00:51 -0400 To See the Universe in Cinderblock by Alex Joyner With all due respect, Mr. William Carlos Williams, it’s not the red wheelbarrow on which so much depends. It’s the cinder block car was […]

]]> 75824686be0398e0f77a68991b6af302 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40663 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:00:45 -0400 The Photographs of Rachel Turney   Rachel Turney has traveled the world with curiosity and a camera. It all began in childhood. “I started taking pictures of houses in my Mi […]

]]> a291c9c26278300f82576ecaeb37b32c Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40242 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:00:07 -0400 Prints by Nigerian Artist Ojo Olaniyi Nigerian printmaker and painter Ojo Olaniyi creates works that reflect his interest in social justice, identity, and community. He often depicts his […]

]]> 3764430e7abd9b9e74c6074c397fc927 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40688 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:00:34 -0400 Vacations are great, but . . . by Emily Littlewood We are going on the trip of a lifetime and the two parts of my personality are at war. Anxiety/control vs. procrastination/let it ride. It’s really […]

]]> 8656885f14c6750f076b7fbe449e76c9 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40520 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:00:51 -0400 On Writing A Condolence Letter by Trudy Hale I find it hard to write a condolence letter, not a note, but a letter. And three condolence letters wait for me. They sit like black crows on a fence, […]

]]> 32d0d1bfe78df82b1c9083f837865146 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40304 Mon, 19 May 2025 12:00:08 -0400 Minimalist Photographs by Michael C. Roberts     Michael Roberts describes his delicately conceived photographs as “minimalist.” “Starting last fall,” Roberts remembers, “I wanted […]

]]> a19e7c709250894c878db12bcf15cf43 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40364 Mon, 12 May 2025 11:00:19 -0400 Ars Poetica by Trudy Hale The forsythia outside my window has given up the brilliant citrus yellow and is fading back to the sticky green leaves. I am trying to hold a dull […]

]]> a9dfa975da26bffd4d1fc941386b874d Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40029 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0400 Watercolors and Drawings by James Ellis   Watercolors came naturally to artist James Ellis. “The summer I finished elementary school I discovered my mom was taking a watercolor pa […]

]]> 7551ddc6ec75c6964bca6f8d9764dc4a Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40159 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:00:29 -0400 Comfort in the Unknown by Emily Littlewood Like a lot of people, I’ve dealt with health issues my whole life. I have cystic fibrosis, which comes with a cornucopia of symptoms, like d […]

]]> 0048173cb830e98812bcba964c20016a Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40093 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:52:24 -0400 Father's Day in Bujumbura by Alex Joyner She said she knew that it was Father’s Day in the U.S. and she began to tell me a story from the back seat as we bounced down rough dirt roads on t […]

]]> 06fc81b1d321b3fa1a70d57bba69892f Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39695 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:17 -0500 The Varied Works by Matthew Morpheus   I grew up in Ukraine, the heart of the freedom-loving Cossacks, surrounded by the rich cultural heritage of my people who had a strong […]

]]> c5ad63bac288c781ec852719ff1f25c0 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39883 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:33 -0500 Figurative Works by Joseph A. Miller     Figurative painter Joseph A. Miller freeze-frames telling moments of childhood and beyond. He focuses on the human figure in e […]

]]> f8f06dada8e9f8a969d84796fa5ec1fa Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39831 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:00:22 -0500 Wild Fires by Trudy Hale Tuesday, Januay 7th. My son Charlie called. He was breathless. He had barely escaped the Palisades. The sky had been clear, he said when he took […]

]]> c30e27f60d634e69cc42fe54513e6684 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39319 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:00:05 -0500 Lizzie Brown's Vibrant Portraits Richmond, Va. artist Lizzie Brown paints vivid and dramatic portraits to show the beauty, resilience, and strength of African Americans. Brown […]

]]> 913a284475cc9d2c154db5e05b5f8319 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39508 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:00:44 -0500 On the Edge by Trudy Hale When have you been convinced to change your mind? How did it happen? By negotiation? By beauty? By lament? By shock or threat? By what? The […]

]]> 19e8b115b7525325ee870ab2728418df Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39344 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:00:08 -0500 William Crawford's New Photography   My photography employs minimalist classical shooting techniques which offer a throwback alternative to computer driven modern photography. […]

]]> 628781f22892a46f9eb0eba99b62c3f0 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39233 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:00:40 -0400 Artist Anick Langelier Looks to the Old Masters   Anick Langelier is a Canadian artist whose paintings mix the spiritual and literary with inspiration from the Old Masters. Living in […]

]]> c89180c22c8f7f6065dda74e6601e764 Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, The Oppenheimer Retrospective by Katherine Slaughter https://streetlightmag.com/2024/10/18/the-oppenheimer-retrospective-by-katherine-slaughter/#comment-532618 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:38:22 -0400 Kay, Strong stuff! Thanks for writing this moving and powerful piece.

]]> 517d4b07b1637e588c7580a5b2a1ff26 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38925 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:00:55 -0400 For Albemarle’s Sam Abell, Photographs Come from Within. By Russell Hart   The first thing Sam Abell entreats his workshop students to do is imagine their photographs without a primary subject. “I cover up the su […]

]]> 5136c37b0f9c63f9aa2d597c9c2da06c Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38844 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:00:13 -0400 The (Very Uncomfortable) Art of Letting Go: When Movers Lose All Your Furniture by Katie Wilkes “Your new life is gonna cost you your old one.” —Margot Berman I forget if it was around the time of a full moon or another supercharged energy p […]

]]> 0185f4f0418483058d1618f2abccd118 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37963 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:00:05 -0400 The Sculpted Paintings of Brooke Major   At three, Brooke Major picked up a paint brush and rode her first horse. Her path was set. “My grandfather had riding stables and I fell in lo […]

]]> 40fa8c52cd6da7f3447c204ed267b125 Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38778 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:25:23 -0400 Once Upon A Memoir by Trudy Hale I am in an abusive relationship again. This morning was the first time it occurred to me to label it as such. Not a lover or husband, or friend, but […]

]]> b1a335cae60b17e7ab7c034493f08f92 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38285 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:00:50 -0400 Cristina's Pop Art   Cristina is an artist with an eye to humor, the ironic and social commentary. She started creating art for fun at the age of six, painting […]

]]> 3a7a982f1d28353e2fb71afa913c0597 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38228 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:00:48 -0400 The Photography of Leah Oates and Max St-Jacques This mother and son have more than most in common; Leah Oates and son Maximilien St-Jacques share a passion for photography.Oates’s grandfather was a […]

]]> c8334a71dd81f1eaddc529e116f830ab Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38379 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:00:19 -0400 Mimm Patterson Wins Streetlight's 2024 Art Contest Mimm Patterson is the Winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Art Contest Among the submissions that we received for the Streetlight Art Contest, Mimm […]

]]> f25e25262bfefa8343d803327b3455a6 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38035 Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 -0400 In Other Words by Elizabeth Meade Howard   Remember letters? Ones that came in the mail with stamps and occasional foreign postmarks? Remember that moment of anticipation before […]

]]> 02dde483d168641f513b573d576ce9ae Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38071 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:00:21 -0400 A Leg in the Darkness by Alex Joyner When the leg appeared out of the darkness, flung over the gate of the neighboring corral, I was howling along with Emmylou Harris. “Beneath Still W […]

]]> 3ec868349c82ee195a61f4dfe8a2eded Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37602 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:00:28 -0400 The Photographs of Christopher Woods                         I have always been interested in visual art. In fact, years ago my wife, Linda, and I owned a small art gallery. Bu […]

]]> 9b845ef60e9285aa1a7b8cada461cb13 Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, MAISON MAGIQUE by Deborah M. Prum https://streetlightmag.com/2024/04/01/maison-magique-by-deborah-m-prum/#comment-517575 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:56:44 -0400 A wonderful, tender and insightful piece. Thanks, Deb

]]> 273b19bea1a7c0c560f58224c221dbb6 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37860 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:00:22 -0400 A Change of Scenery by Emily Littlewood I’ve been having trouble reading lately. Actually, for the last few years. I can’t seem to sit down with a book and focus on it long enough to get thr […]

]]> 1a4610cf2d3df11f3b2d271a63d00dcf Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37748 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:00:48 -0500 Thoughts About the Universe These Mornings by Laura Marello Everything is connected. Most of what the universe energy is, creation/destruction energy, we don’t understand. We underestimate the […]

]]> 286cb43b06ece2ded1cd6545c0dfffa2 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37567 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 06:00:40 -0500 The Collages of Ann Calandro   Collage artist Ann Calandro drew a lot as a child and wanted to be an artist when she was grown. Not getting into art school, she ended up […]

]]> d51aeac4a850d33df225aded456650da Trudy wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37661 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:00:34 -0500 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 […]

]]> aefd872d805accde2f7fbe5b7d44d971 Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37378 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:00:23 -0500 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 […]

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