"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 prompts’

Daily Prompt Love <3 What's Calling

9 July 2019 

Make art about what or who’s calling to you from down the hall.

hallway

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Defending the Weak

8 July 2019

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” -Psalm 82: 3-4

Make art about taking action to protect and defend the weak and oppressed.

protect the weak

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 By the Victors

7 July 2019 

“My experience with life makes me afraid of the historian” the historian, if not a liar himself, is largely at the mercy of liars.”–Walt Whitman

Make art about the twisting of history. 

history

Daily Prompt Love <3 Devoted

6 July 2019 

devotion (n.) 1200, devocioun, “profound religious emotion, awe, reverence,” from Old French devocion”devotion, piety” and directly from Latin devotionem (nominative devotio), noun of action from past-participle stem of devovere “dedicate by a vow, sacrifice oneself, promise solemnly,” from de “down, away” (see de-) + vovere “to vow” (see vow (n.)).

Make art about what you’re devoted to.

devotion

Daily Prompt Love <3 With Each Beat

5 July 2019 

“Sweet heart. Don’t stop.”–Melvin Dixon 

Make art about what happened in the space of that heartbeat. 

heartbeat

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 On Citizenship

4 July 2019 

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” ― Aristotle

Make art about this tension, about the moral choice versus the political choice. 

citizenship

Daily Prompt Love <3 All About 'Me'

3 July 2019

Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem. Historically it was used as a name for narcissistic personality disorder prior to the latter’s first use by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and is used today as a non-clinical reference to this disorder.

Make art about a narcissistic person, about megalomaniacal behavior, about how to protect yourself from the dangers of dealing with a narcissist.

meglomania

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 What They Don't See

“the wages of empire is myopia” ― Natasha Trethewey

Make art about the blindness of the empire, about the short-sightedness, about the willful ignorance of those who benefit from the empire 

empire blindness

Image by Couleur from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Making Space

1 July 2019 

Make art about making space, holding space, for someone. 

making space for

Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Bible Says What?

30 June 2019

My focus in studying Anthropology was cross-cultural perspectives of religions, with a specific eye toward where the origin of Christianity intersected with Judaism. I am not a Biblical scholar, but I know a little. 

Thinking on how many times the Christian Bible has been translated, rewritten, revised. Looking to the Old Testament, even the major religions can’t agree on how many books should be included. The Jews have 24 books, the Protestants 39, the Catholics 46, and the Eastern Orthodox have 51.   And contemporary scholars believe there are between 300,000 and 400,000 different versions of the New Testament. There are more different versions of the New Testament than there are words in it. 

Make art about what’s lost in translation. 

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