Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

Sculptor Darcy J. Sears

My sculptures are always about the figure at rest or in motion.  After 23 years of sculpting the figure you would think I would be bored.  However, the human figure is never boring, never the same.  Each body is unique.  As an artist I look at people in a totally […]

June 24, 2013  |  Read Article

Powered by Chocolate

By Liz Brent Powered by Chocolate was inspired by a true life event! One evening before I went into a dance class, a fellow dancer offered me a huge piece of chocolate cake. I couldn’t say no. However, I started regretting it immediately because I believed I was going to […]

June 10, 2013  |  Read Article

Measure the Music: Neos Pervolianos

By Jake Padilla This traditional Greek folk song, Neos Pervolianos, is a curious one. In measure 26 you’ll find the bowed string instrument playing a slightly altered but very familiar riff from an American folk song. Can you recognize it?? As a hint I’ll give you the measure from the […]

June 3, 2013  |  Read Article

Thrown

Poem by Madelyn Biven; Painting by Julia Cost Cross lines of a highway makes romance bleed, our feet become moonlight crimson echo of the eros between sand and heat (something fine like crushed sun as if the sun could become gold dust). I became a dove and dove into your […]

May 13, 2013  |  Read Article