Dear Creative Woman, you are not alone.
Introduced by AROHO in 2013, The Q is our intimate source of dialogue as creative women. Welling up from this source, women’s voices and art are curated and amplified in WAVES, a cross-media publication platform, and archived in partnership with creative women. As we gather virtually around a dialogue we shape together, evidence of our gifts, resources, and possibilities exponentially grow.
There are two ways to collaborate with our narrative and vision unique to creative women:
Explore intimate questions with candor
We resolve to hold a safe, sacred space for you. Your contribution to the full Q will only be published with your permission.
Submit your creative work to WAVES
Your words, your art, your music, your own creative riposte, however you are compelled, we seek art and letters of all kinds that speak to and illustrate who we are as creative women and our relationship to each other, past, present, and future.
The Q | soundings
soundings Q: In this moment, how will I claim my artistic power?*Responses will be...
The Q | clearing the waters
Q: Do clear waters enhance what we create? Can the act of creating clear the...
The Q | the cresting wave
Q: What is found between the swell and the giving way of the cresting wave?*Responses...
The Q | the antidote
Q: How is artistic expansion an antidote to our worldly obligations?*Responses will be...
The Q | immersion
Q: Who do we aspire to become within this sacred creative space?*Responses will be...
The Q | the deepest place
Q: What treasures are secreted in the deepest places, the bathys, and how will we...
The Q | our buoyant force
Q: How do we ride our buoyant force in the waves?*Responses will be curated and may be...
The Q | a ping (or whalesong)
Q: What is your ping, your whalesong?*Responses will be curated and may be shared with...
The Q | entering the clearing
Q: How do you clear space in spirit and in life for your work?*Responses will be curated...
The Q | is our art ever too much
Q: How do we respond when it floods our boundaries? How can we embody the...
The Q | witness in your art
The Q: How does the experience of seeing and being seen manifest in your...
The Q | ritual in process
The Q: Are you aware of a recurrent rhythm—a breath and then a push—to your...
The Q | introduce yourself
Q: When we dare to meet in the deepest pools of creative intention, how will we...
The Q | an invitation
We see each woman’s work as a brush stroke in the portrait of creative women. If...

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