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...
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...
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...
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