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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 8 years, 10 months ago
Frankie Slaughter is a mixed media artist living in Richmond, Va. She works with a variety of materials including fabric, paper, encaustic and porcelain. She previously designed one-of-a-kind j […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits 8 years, 11 months ago
Peter Skinner: Paintings
Peter Skinner: Paintings will be exhibited at Les Yeux du Monde Gallery May 12 – June 18. An opening reception will be held Friday May 12 from 5-7:30 p.m.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Skinner attended The Juilliard School of Drama and went on to become an actor, sculptor, painter, and writer. He has lived…[Read more]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 years, 11 months ago
I wrote these poems to capture and preserve real events. They depict shifts from isolation and loss to connection and love—the dance of relationships in unexpected places, with unexpected dance pa […]
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Sharron Singleton wrote a new post 8 years, 11 months ago
Common Stingray
Dasyatis pastinacaIn the infinite silence
of her velvety skin, she roams
through moon water at night,scours coastal shallows, glides
around th […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 8 years, 11 months ago
Freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express one’s self. Freedom to communicate your conscience. Artist Robert Strini has been answering the call for over 40 years.
“The biggest key in my life was […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 8 years, 11 months ago
“I Stand with Her:” Paintings by Mary Michaela Murray
April 4-30 at McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA“Color moves me, and at once, arrests me. To linger, to look, to indulge in the pleasure of light and color dancing on humble objects and in the ordinary scenes of my d…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 8 years, 11 months ago
“I Stand with Her:” Paintings by Mary Michaela Murray
April 4-30 at McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA“Color moves me, and at once, arrests me. To linger, to look, to indulge in the pleasure of light and color dancing on humble objects and in the ordinary scenes of my d…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 8 years, 11 months ago
“I Stand with Her:” Paintings by Mary Murray
April 4-30 at McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA“Color moves me, and at once, arrests me. To linger, to look, to indulge in the pleasure of light and color dancing on humble objects and in the ordinary scenes of my daily life—this has been my inspiration,” says artist and gr…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits 8 years, 11 months ago
Offerings, Egg tempera on panel, 36″x36″, 2017
Offerings: Women on the Freedoms of Age, with Susan Jamison & Beatrix Ost
On Saturday, April 15, artist and author Beatrix Ost and painter Susan Jamison will share an open conversation on recognizing the gifts of grace, insight and cultivation in creative aging women. Their…[Read more]
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Trudy commented on the post, The Sudden Appearance of an Identical Twin 8 years, 11 months ago
Susan,
what a romp through tropes–“The Sudden Appearance of an Identical Twin”
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 8 years, 11 months ago
I recognize that I may be a tad more sensitive to the prospect of police state behavior than the average Jo but I come by this extra helping of unease naturally. Because of his liberal politics my dad, Marcus […]
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Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Fuzzball and the Quakers by Lassiter Williams 8 years, 11 months ago
And I also meant to say, beautifully written!
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Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Fuzzball and the Quakers by Lassiter Williams 8 years, 11 months ago
Incredibly strong, brave and moving. Thank you.
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Sharron Singleton wrote a new post 8 years, 12 months ago
Blue
It must have been her accent
that seduced and baffled my ears.
The Egyptian woman, still lost
in the desert air of Cairo,
read her poems filled with water
from the Nile and blue heaven,
blue […]
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Spriggan Radfae commented on the post, A Vast Bloom of Light 8 years, 12 months ago
Sharron, those nearly 80 years you’ve been around have refined your writing and artistry. This is a memoir filled with delicious visuals.
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Sharron Singleton wrote a new post 8 years, 12 months ago
In my almost 80 years it seems as if I have lived numerous lives because the world has changed so swiftly under my feet. My world now as a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, pastor’s wife and poet could n […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 9 years ago
They arrived at the beach at dawn. The Family: Father, Mother, Son and Baby Girl. They enjoyed sole ownership of the beach, playing, swimming and napping as the tide rolled back. Morning settled in and […]
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Sharron Singleton commented on the post, Open-Mic Poetry Night 9 years ago
Moving story. Thank you and congrats on the poetry reading!
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Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post 9 years ago
For most of my youth, I lived in a secure blanket of belonging. I belonged to the groups of people that surrounded me at my school and church: white Christians, married couples with children (children like me), […]
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Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum Art Shows & Exhibits 9 years ago
Fluorescent Self Portrait
Streetlight contributor Geoffrey Stein is showing new works East and West. His collage, Fluorescent Self Portrait is included in a Poets and Artists group exhibition, Sight Unseen, at Abend Gallery in Denver, Colorado. The show runs through March 25th.
His painting, Rohlin at Sunset, was…[Read more]
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