"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

Posts tagged ‘Art & Freedom’

Daily Prompt Love <3 Shifting

29 July 2019 

Make art about shape shifting, about a shape shifter. 

shapeshifting

Daily Prompt Love <3 On Not Wanting to See

28 July 2019 

Blind Faith: belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.

Make art about unwillingness to see, listen, or learn, about blind faith. 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Blocking

26 July 2019 

Make art about obstruction, about obstructing something, or about being obstructed. 

obstruction

Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Jungle Wild

25 July 2019 

“Jungle rain had no beginning or end; it grew like foliage from the sky, branching and arching to the earth, sometimes in solid thickets entangling the islands, and other times, in tendrils of blue mist curling out of coastal clouds. The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men.”-Leslie Marmon Silko

Make art using a jungle as the inspiration or central metaphor. 

jungle

Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Even If Your Voice Shakes

24 July 2019 

Make art about the truth-tellers. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Facing It

23 July 2019 

Make art about confrontation, about confronting someone or something, about avoiding confrontation, or about a time when confrontation was healthy. 

confrontation

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 The Reveal

22 July 2019 

revelation (n.)

c. 1300, “disclosure of information to man by a divine or supernatural agency,” from Old French revelacion and directly from Latin revelationem (nominative revelatio), noun of action from past participle stem of revelare “unveil, uncover, lay bare” (see reveal). General meaning “disclosure of facts” is attested from late 14c.; meaning “striking disclosure” is from 1862. As the name of the last book of the New Testament (Revelation of St. John), it is first attested late 14c.

Make art about a revelation, about what was revealed. 

revelation

Daily Prompt Love <3 It Droppeth As a Gentle Rain

21 July 2019 

For Mercy has a human heart,/Pity, a human face:/ And Love, the human form divine,/And Peace, the human dress.–William Blake

Make art about mercy, about showing mercy, about receiving mercy, about the power of mercy. 

mercy

Image by skeeze from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Where You Came From

20 July 2019

If you live in the United States, unless you’re Native American, your people came here from somewhere else.

Make art about your immigrant ancestors. 

immigrants new york city

Image by skeeze from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Time for Change

18 July 2019 

“Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.” ― Orson Scott Card

Make art about metamorphosis.

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