Daily Prompt Love <3 Did You See That?
31 August 2019
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet black bough”–Ezra Pound
Make art about an apparition.
Image by SuperHerftigGeneral from Pixabay
Posts tagged ‘art as protest’
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Get Ready
30 August 2019
Make art about assembling what you need to be ready.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Healing
29 August 2019
Make art about what you do to heal.
Image by Seksak Kerdkanno from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Wherever You Go
27 August 2019
“Not all who wander are lost.”–Tolkien
Make art about where you wandered.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Um, Nice To Meet Y'all
26 August 2019
New semester starts today. I love teaching so much, but being the performing introvert that I am, those brand new student faces are always an experience.
Make art about how it feels to walk into a room of people you’re meeting for the first time.
Special Sunday Call for Submissions <3 Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers!
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words & Art
A New Reading Series Celebrating Virginia Womxn, Womxn-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writers
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art, created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan, in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.
The series will consist of two events annually:
- A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
- All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.
The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.
Selected writers must be available to read in person, and should be willing to attend both events.
Believing that artists should be compensated when possible, we will award all selected readers a small token honorarium.
Please submit writing samples, as detailed below, along with a 50-75 word bio, via Submittable. Please include in your bio your current Virginia city of residence.
Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Before It's Lost Forever
25 August 2019
Make art about what’s irreplaceable, about losing what can never be regained.
How to help the Amazon rainforest
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and vital to combating climate change. In the aftermath of the wildfires, several organizations have stepped up to assist in aid or other ways to help save the Amazon. The following organizations have been rated 4 out of 5 stars by Charity Navigator, a non-profit that evaluates financial health, transparency and accountability in charities.
- Amazon Conservation Team fights climate change, protect the Amazon and empower indigenous peoples.
- Amazon Conservation Association accepts donations and lists exactly what your money goes toward –– whether it’s planting trees, sponsoring education, buying a solar panel and preserving indigenous lands.
- Donate to the Rainforest Trust to help buy land in the rainforest. The organization has saved over 23 million acres and counting since 1988.
- The Rainforest Foundation is committed to making sure donations made reaches projects such as supporting environmental defenders, indigenous advocacy organizations and deforestation monitoring.
From “What You Can Do to Help the Burning Amazon Rainforest” —from CBS News
Daily Prompt Love <3 Sweet Solitude
24 August 2019
“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”–Warsan Shire
Make art about being alone, about the difference between being alone and being lonely, about the beauty to be found in solitude.
Image by lucia parrillo from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 So Much Power
23 August 2019
Make art about the power of story, of how story can change lives.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Do You Hear It?
22 August 2019
Make art about that lone voice in the wilderness, or about the voice of the wilderness.
Image by David Mark from Pixabay
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