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Susan Marie Dopp’s Lacewing

Corwin Levi — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:46:15 +0000

Susan Marie Dopp's Lacewing exhibit at the Roswell Museum is an enchanting collection of abstract, organic sculptures bathed in colored light that both joyfully celebrate life and poignantly meditate on aging and death.

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The Sunday Poem: “Little Farmer” by Naomi Shihab Nye

James Crews — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 01:31:21 +0000

It’s vital to look back on our lives and trace those first, formative encounters with wonder and awe. We might ask ourselves: What experiences taught us to revere the world? As Naomi Shihab Nye reveals in “Little Farmer,” her own childhood connection to the organic farm in Missouri close to where she grew up planted the seeds of wonder in her.

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Sarah Williams’ Pretty Rural

Corwin Levi — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:30:52 +0000

Walking into Sarah Williams' show "Pretty Rural" at Andrea Schwartz in San Francisco, viewers are teleported across the country by her newest paintings. Specifically, they are transported into a dark winter evening complete with Christmas lights in Brookfield, Missouri, where Williams grew up.

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Amy Casey’s Teeter Totter in Hotter Water

Michelle Aldredge — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:03:47 +0000

Amy Casey's solo exhibition at Chicago's Zg Gallery, Teeter Totter in Hotter Water, is full of paintings that capture our current crises. Her detailed acrylic paintings include exploding buildings, houses falling into the sea, teetering towers that barely stand up, and constructions reclaimed by nature—in environments that one could easily assume are post-apocalyptic.

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The Sunday Poem: “More” by James Crews

James Crews — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:27:01 +0000

Living in cities and moving from place to place for most of my adult life, I had fallen out of the habit of gardening. Like many, I’d lost touch with the food I found for sale in grocery stores and even at farmer’s markets, forgetting the pleasure (and intense hard work) of being part of the growing process from beginning to end.

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The Sunday Poem: “I’d rather be influenced” by Patrick Ramsay

James Crews — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 21:16:27 +0000

Directed at the so-called “influencers” and advertisers online who vie for our attention, this poem rejects such marketing manipulation. Instead, Patrick Ramsay says he would rather be influenced to “send more postcards./To kiss with more tongue . . . and make cold brew at home.”

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