What Do My Artistic Ancestors Tell Me?
“For the road was cut many years ago … many famous women, and many more unknown and forgotten, have been before me. But this freedom is only a beginning – the room is your own, but it is still bare. It has to be furnished; it has to be decorated; it has to be shared. How are you going to furnish it, how are you going to decorate it? With whom are you going to share it, and upon what terms? These, I think are questions of...
2019 Rockvale “Power of Creativity” Gift of Fellowship
The Rockvale “Power of Creativity” Gift of Fellowship The Rockvale Writers’ Colony is held firmly in the belief that words have power and that writers who share their writing with the world are offering a fundamental and powerful gift that cannot be duplicated by any other writer. “Our uniqueness is our power. Our Creative spirit is our power. Our words are power and light.” – Sandy Coomer, poet,...
2019 “Self Reflection” Gift of Fellowship
“The self-portrait is a composition of structured forces and aspects of our developed knowledge of life. It is a guide toward ‘Who am I?'” – Linda Troeller ____________________________________________ Dear Creative Woman, I started taking self-portraits at twenty while attending a student luncheon at the home of the artist Georgia O’Keefe. She saw me with a Rollei camera and suggested I go out on her ranch and see...
“Available Light” by Sandy Coomer, “Swan” by Rinat Harel
“Available Light” by Sandy Coomer I’ve come to the lake to take pictures, capture first light lifting off water, an image that is more than the muted colors of a somber morning, a world worn dull with sorrow. It’s hard to find a reason to smile when all around me the edges of the good I believed in sink beneath a hard...
Do I Identify?
“Now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.” – Virginia Woolf, Diary, 31 May 1929 Do you identify as a creative woman? In all the unique ways women express themselves through words and art, universal identities arise: I am a writer. I am a musician. I am an artist. I am a benefactor …. Our claimed identities connect, forming a net, a collective expression of who we are and what we call ourselves. You are...
Who Am I?
“Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.” – Virginia Woolf, Orlando Perhaps each of us would respond differently to Woolf’s claim; but if Maya Angelou asserts “love recognizes no barriers” and Linda Hogan reminds us that we are “the result of the love of thousands,” our paradigm of love expands to our ancestors, to the woman next to us and those to come, to our creative practice, to...
I Begin to Say Something
“There’s no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin to say something in my own voice.” – Virginia Woolf, Diary, July 26, 1922 Have you begun to say something in your own voice? Our collaborative narrative offers a place to start, to continue, or to return to what you want to claim. In creative response to January’s featured Q, one woman finds herself interwoven with doubt and strength, another resurrects...
We Are the Words
“We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.” ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being We “are the words” and we are quickened by the truths women have claimed in the past year, echoing a resolute awareness of our creative selves, our collective wisdom, and our legacy. In 2019, we carry forward our shared purpose by expanding our collaborative narrative with The Q, preparing the Waves Anthology for...
2019 Kipp Crutchfield Artist Fellowship and Stipend
“In honor of Kipp Crutchfield, my mother, a woman who chose to claim her potential, returning to school at 38, completing a bachelor’s and master’s, while raising her children and tending to elderly family. She showed the gift of creating the extraordinary from the ordinary, inspiring me to carve my own dreams from life.” – Kristi Crutchfield Cox, MEd, MS, LPC Dear Creative Woman, In 2015, collaborating on my...
2018 Anna Sorocor Fellowship
Congratulations to the Anna Sorocor Fellow, Karen Hildebrandt! In honor of Anna Sorocor, a Rumanian immigrant “who told her life in one long amazing story,” this fellowship gift is named and brought to you by Anna’s granddaughter and legendary author, poet, and executive director of Bread and Roses, New York’s own, Esther Cohen. From concept to book I can help. My gift is for one recipient, to figure out what...
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