15 June 2019
“I was born in a forked-tongued story,/Raised up by merchants and drugstore liars./Now I walk on the paths of glory,/One foot in ice, one in fire.”–from “The Mountain” by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Make art about fire and ice.
Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay
9 May 2019
Make art about the ghost in the machine.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
2 May 2019
Make art about relaxation, about the difficulty, or the benefits, or learning to really relax.
21 April 2019
When I was a little, little girl, I saw an episode of the original Star Trek series in which all of the voices/souls of a lost planet swirled in a huge sphere of multicolored, sparkling light, floating through space. At five years old, I thought that must be what God is like.
Make art about your idea of the divine.
8 March 2019
“Sometimes the dark moves through you. Sometimes the dark asks questions; sometimes it shoots.”–Nina Puro
Make art about what the dark does.
30 January 2018
Make art about a time your body demanded to be heard.
19 January 2018
Make art inspired by this quote:
“When you find yourself down in a hole, don’t scramble to get out. Stay there for a while and dig for something shiny.”-Betsy Cox
20 January 2018
Make art about taking time and making space to listen to the Other.
21 January 2018
Lots of conversation this weekend about faith.
If faith were fabric, the touch of it would feel like….
22 January 2018
On January 31, we’ll all be treated to something even better—the first Super Blue Moon Eclipse in 150 years.
A blue moon is when two full moons happen in the same month (or when four moons happen in one season, where there’d usually be just three and actually has nothing to do with the moon’s color. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into Earth’s shadow, and supermoons occur when the full moon happens at the same time the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit. On Jan. 31, all three of these celestial events will happen at the same time.
Read more about it HERE
Make art about a blue moon.
28 December 2017
Make art using bitter cold as a central metaphor.
29 December 2017
Make art about the colors of the body, about the colors you feel inside.
16 December 2017
‘The Poet writes the story of his/her own body.” Thoreau
Make art about a story, or stories, held in your own body, perhaps one that’s been hidden, or about where you carry story in your body.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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