"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Ways of Knowing

30 April 2017

I asked for a dream before going to sleep last night, a dream that would help me to solve a problem, answer a question I had. In the ways in which I was raised, dreams were just one of multiple ways of learning, ways of knowing.

Unlike mainstream Western culture, which tends to limit ‘knowing’ to what is categorized as ‘rational,’ indigenous cultures across the globe recognize multiple sources of knowledge an individual or community possess and can access, including traditional wisdom, dreaming, land knowing, symbols and images, shared knowledge through connectivity, and story, among others.

Make art about ways of knowing. 

ways of knowing

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Strange Courage

29 April 2017

“It’s a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part”
― William Carlos Williams

Make art about a moment calling for strange courage. 

star

Daily Prompt Love <3 Your Song

28 April 2017

“Every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing.

Before we make music, music makes us.”~Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Make art about the song you recognize as yours, the song of the body.

heart song

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Where Would You Go?

27 April 2017

Make art about time travel.

time travel

Daily Prompt Love <3 Greening

26 April 2017

The rains have stopped and and the hadrwoods have awakened, and the drive home from campus today was a wander through every shade of green. The Guardian Oak is full and bright, and the woods are thickening. I stood with giants, all of us reaching for the sky.

Make art about the greening. 

oaks

Daily Prompt Love <3 Drenched

25 April 2017

Seventh day of rain here. Everything is gray, saturated.

Make art about being drenched. 

drenched

Daily Prompt Love <3 Through the Body

24 April 2017

A prompt I do with my students, an effort to reconnect them with their bodies, and to use that beautiful sensory work in their writing. 

Home smells like….

Fear tastes like…..

Beauty feels like…..

Sorrow looks like….

Love sounds like….

Make art intersecting and grounding a large concept through the body, through an unexpected sense. 

home smells like

Daily Prompt Love <3 According to Pooh :-)

23 April 2017

Rainy Sunday. Yep. Make art about the art of the nap. 

nap pooh

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 For the March for Science

22 April 2017

I can’t join the March for Science today, so to honor those who march–

Make art inspired by this. 

 

science carl sagan

Daily Prompt Love <3 Giving, and Balance

 

20 April 2017

No one has ever become poor by giving.” -Anne Frank

Make art about the benefits of giving.

giving hands

 

21 April 2017

Lots of company above this morning for our walk.

Make art about maintaining balance, about regaining balance, about seeking balance.

birds on a wire

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