It is nice to step back for a moment to see where You were ..and going to.

Man on the String

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©03

"I am the man on the string"…

And he sings a celebration that swept the world.

Flowing with a haunting refrain…

(Will you continue to sing?)

Long after the man on the string…

Stopped long enough…

Only to begin still another celebration unto me.

This man on a string continues to sing.

Oh so doing his thing in the belly of the Neutral Ground.

A sound that vibrated around the world.

And he brings no steel to the space on Daneel (Street)

He is just bringing another celebration song to thee.

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Jenn Brigham, artist

His Sound

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney ©03

His sound was like John Denver with cayenne pepper…

Thrown in for good measure.

And his sound wrapped around my left ear.

Engaging his heart’s life to my soul.

His sound is like John Denver with cayenne thrown in for good measure.

(Fly away….Fly away…. Flay a-waaaay!)

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Diane "Mimi" Baquet, artist

Opening of the Standing in the Shadows (no more) exhibition at Ashe Cultural Art Center March 6,2015

 

Well we are coming around the closing our our workshops at Ashe Cultural Art Center.  Shadows no More last day will be January 27th,2015.  I'll then have the fun and the honor to document the quilts and prepare to mount the show on March 3nd.

The Ashe Quilt~ Karel Sloane Boekbinder,artist

 

The opening reception is on Friday March 6th. 

Addendum:  I am delighted to say that our Standing in the Shadows workshops have now become part of Ashe's family!

We have now become "Lydia's Purple Cloth Comunity Group". You are invited to participate in the classes held every Tues from 6-8pm at Ashe.







 

 

Part of the vision for Standing in the Shadows (no more) was the foundation for not only these women but others to examine in a creative way a desire not to be swallowed up by shadows, either ones of their own makings but also dynamics others try to force them into.  Quilting, a millineum old tradition dating back to ancient Africa & China is being used as that jump off point. For many, this was a safe, soothing yet forceful way to articulate sometime what could barely be thought of let along being spoken of.

 

Shadows don't always have to be somethng formidable... sometime it is a quiet yearning, a secret desire to do things a bit differently, to try or embrace smething new or see yourself in a different light. 

Now we will have as a sister companion exhibition opening a few days later at Galerie 1501 located at 1501 Canal Street the "Lydia's 1st Purple Moon: You are Ish-Shah" (Hebrew for woman) exhibition that will run from March 10th-May 10th.  You wil see many more pieces of these talented women, other women artists and their allies there in support to the "Standing in the Shadows No More"