Text Painting of The Wild Geese, Mary Oliver’s Poem by Nancy Cassell
“Text Painting of The Wild Geese, Mary Oliver’s Poem” by Nancy Cassell ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Nancy Cassell Artist Statement: Nancy Fletcher Cassell is a visual artist and writer. Her poems have appeared in Water- Stone Review (finalist Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize), Heartland Review (finalist, Joy Bale Boone poetry Award), Bigger Than They...
Where Did the Wild Girls Go by B Story
“Where Did the Wild Girls Go” by B Story Each woman is born Mother Moon To a tribe of wild girls Who live in the forest between her ribs. They scratch and fight and swim. They swallow sunrises whole, Befriend the wolves, Sleep with their spines Curved along branches, Their feet dangling, And never fear the fall. They live to tear up the world. Where do our wild girls go? When did the forest grow still? He...
Seahorse (excerpt) by Myrna Greenfield
“Seahorse (excerpt)” by Myrna Greenfield As a child, I watched as he slithered into the Atlantic, his crawl accentuated by the high fly of his arms, an easy draw of the sea in his wake. The farther out he went, the quicker my heart beat. He would switch to a float, his body bobbing on his salted bed. I squinted into the Brooklyn sun and fixed my sights on the crown of his head, that tiny, bald spot, as he...
Women at the Center by Dorit Netzer
“Women at the Center” by Dorit Netzer This work is about: In 1995-1996 I was an art therapy intern and researcher at a women’s center, where I dedicated my time to facilitating self-reflective creative expression with groups of women, who struggled with challenging life transitions. This collection of portraits, taken from my journal, is brought together 20 years later to acknowledge the courage...
Creative Legacy by Mary Potter Kenyon
“Creative Legacy” by Mary Potter Kenyon In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Circle of Quiet, the author chronicles a period of angst in her writing life. She’d hit a dry spell for sales of her work in her thirties. She was looking forward to her fortieth birthday, certain that a new decade would bring about writing success. It plagued her that she’d spent a great deal of time writing without pulling her own weight...
HOME/Violet by Marianne Murdock
“HOME/Violet” by Marianne Murdock This work is about: Watercolor of a woman done a long time ago. I now know that I was painting my grandmother, whose home I was in at the time, long after she died. ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Marianne Murdock Artist Statement: Born in Washington, D.C. in 1953, Marianne Murdock has always been a creative being,...
Works and Days by Tanja Markus
“Works and Days” by Tanja Markus In sum, this work is about: Inspired by the Bosch’s outer panels of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” “Works and Days” transforms the depiction of the creation of the world into the metaphor of contemporary accomplishments of humanity, which, lobotomized by the principles of market mechanics, has lost its spirituality and its rituals. ...
Expression of Woman’s Creativity and Freedom by K. Srikala Ganapathy
“Expression of Woman’s Creativity and Freedom” by K. Srikala Ganapathy ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here K. Srikala Ganapathy Artist Statement: I would like to call myself a mentor, educator, artist, seeker. I define my creative identity as a way of expressing my creativity through art. I love drawing mandalas. I love to use my creative freedom to...
Fawn by Erin Rizzato Devlin
What we are, or what we are becoming, sometimes merges with our surroundings. Women are the modern nymphs that inhabit the cities, streets and rooms of life. The eternal bond that allows communication between the moon and the earth. “Fawn” by Erin Rizzato Devlin You have to spread out as wide as your body can stretch, until you become your surroundings, until the pulse of nature becomes the psalm of...
“Before” by Terri Glass
“Before” by Terri Glass Before I was river, I was rock. Serpentine rock which made the river shimmer peridot. Before rock, I was a star in Orion’s Belt, glittering down like rain on earth’s surface. Before I was star, atoms exploded into light, traveling faster than a train of thought. Then I was the void, total darkness, a vacuum sucking in failures, extinctions— the gasoline engine, the Roman empire. Before...
Still by Dana Dirker
“Still” by Dana Dirker In sum, this work is about: This painting is for women survivors who are in the process of recovery. It is from a series of drawings and paintings that focuses on the woman in different situations of struggle, both within and around her. The titles of these works narrate the inner dialogue of the swimmer who, in her skillfulness and resilience, must choose the best stroke and...
Seamstress by Frankie Francis
“Seamstress” by Frankie Francis When I take the time to slow down, meet myself where I’m at, I discover how my heart only longs for one thing: Peace. Peace that comes from closing wounds. Wounds spill open, slowly ooze over crumbling walls, flooding the past, vacating love. Peace that comes from accepting my demons, failures, insecurities, knowing the shadows are not me. They are figments, they are fables....
Offering of the Ocean Winds by Nadia Dabul
“Offering of the Ocean Winds” by Nadia Dabul ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Nadia Dabul Artist Statement: As a multi faceted artist, I enjoy and am driven to create via 2d and 3d utilizing the modalities of pen and ink, watercolor, acrylics, oils and multi media components, as well as fiber arts and clay creations and sculpture. I also write prose and...
I Could Say I Come From by Elizabeth Cohen
“I Could Say I Come From” by Elizabeth Cohen I could say I come from dust, from rocks Potatoes, centuries of bloody fingers, tatting lace I could say I come a thousand years wandering in a desert Russian steppes, pograms death camps, bone yards I could say I come from candles reversed mirrors glasses of wine I could say I come from a Purple heart, moldy feet in the jungles of the Philippines from decoded...
Elena by Beverly Hermosillo
“Elena” by Beverly Hermosillo I planted a weeping willow and named her Elena. In her soil, I buried my anger and shame. In her leaves, I whispered all my hopes, Dreams, and secrets. In her shade, I prayed for our forgiveness. The sounds of the wind through her leaves, Carries with it the echoes Of all that happened A song of great joy, And sorrow. Ultimately, In the presence of her beauty I found a...
My Left Ear by Stacy Lynn
“My Left Ear” by Stacy Lynn I write and I paint to understand myself and the world, to observe, to feel, to breathe, to acknowledge the shadows and see all the light. I write and I paint to be clear-eyed and whole-hearted. I write and I paint to be whole. To have skin cancer and undergo plastic surgery to repair the damage to my left ear was traumatic, but to paint my experience was my power to...
Don’t Rush by Gail Nyoka
“Don’t Rush” by Gail Nyoka Turn around and you’ll be grown up already. I spun upon myself turning, spinning laughing. Proving her wrong. Wishing slow time would spin as quickly as I had spun tight circle around myself. My mother is dead now Her words return turn and turn faster and faster and I am old already. I never could master time’s speed. ____________________ Share your response to this...
The Unraveling, I by Karen Sides
“The Unraveling, I” by Karen Sides In sum, this work is about: doing the work of unraveling deeply scarred emotions; facing our inner world with honesty, love, compassion, and strength. ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Karen Sides Artist Statement: I love telling stories with my art and am greatly inspired by the energy of nature, the human spirit, and my...
Le transformationi de Gabrielle by Deborah de Prieto
“Le transformationi de Gabrielle” by Deborah de Prieto ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Deborah de Prieto Artist Statement: Le transformationi de Gabrielle (Oil on Antique Wood Panel, Private Collection, 2’ High x 2’ Wide) The archetypal image represents a big Dream drawn from the archetypes of the collective unconscious bringing a message from the...
My Creative Identity by Jennifer Tehani Sarreal
“My Creative Identity” by Jennifer Tehani Sarreal As a creative woman, I define my creative identity in the following way: Who I am is a dancer… whether I dance or not in this world. Movement of soul, of body, of mind… that’s what keeps me growing. At this stage of my life, I ask myself who is a dancer who does not dance? Still a dancer. It is who I am – even when the stage stops and the...
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