This collection of artwork emerges from the hands and hearts of survivors of domestic violence. Each piece a testament of resilience, reclaiming their internal dialogue through a sometimes delicate, but powerful process of self-expression. Every brush stroke,...

Thunderless is a humans rebirth. The changes from state to state do not come with applause. Our pace is gradual, yielding almost no instant gratification. We are forced to change completely, many times. We're always in changes process. The only way we experience our...

Collaborative piece by Dawn Shekut-Mucha & Jan Dreger Blank. A journey of the human experience of loss and transformation. The message is that we don't have to return to who we were before the breaking. Sometimes, something entirely new can grow from the pieces....

I have been a painter for most of my life. My biggest passion is to paint oil landscapes and sometimes acrylic portraits, although I have started to expand into other areas like flowers and primitive themes. I love to paint to bring my ideas to a blank canvas. The...

"FamilyRebirth" was inspired by changes in my immediate family. Changes that brought more independence on my part while caring for my children. "Coalescence"...One of the most beautiful times in a women's life. the nurturing of a new life. A private time to renew your...

My paintings tend to lean toward expressive portrait and figurative pieces along with abstract selections. I paint in whatever style reflects my mood and often work on multiple paintings at the same time. My drive comes from a desire communicate thoughts that don’t...

Sandra Fink May is a multi-faceted artist exploring painterly qualities in her sculpture and three dimensional aspects on her canvas. This new series is titled OUROBOROS, it is the snake consuming it's own tail. The series represents a continuation, a metamorphosis...

The theme of rebirth is meaningful to me as it represents my return to fine art a few years ago after a long career serving as a communications strategist in the corporate world. Returning to art wasn’t something I thought I would ever be doing again, but I am doing...

Experiencing life through its endings and beginnings can feel like being turned inside out. There are moments when I move through the world as though my insides are exposed, tender and visible to me, yet somehow invisible to everyone else. I wonder how others seem to...

It’s hard to pretend you are normal, especially after a cancer diagnosis. Life becomes appointments, sad looks and head tilts from everyone, confusion. All I became to everyone was my cancer, or at least that’s how it felt. Somedays I would just stare at a wall all...

As a songwriter, poet, performing and healing artist, my artistic expression for the past 50 years has taken the form of spoken or sung words and music, but my recent experience of the Emergence series has inspired me to create and express in visual art mediums.The...

The first two parts of the Emergence Exhibition series, Grief, and Acceptance, were about, to my mind, the internal, personal work of an experience; a sort of solo journey. However, in my life, Healing and Rebirth have been due to interacting with others. I find...

At some point, water and humankind’s search for it in the universe aligned with my search – I am exploring water and specifically waterfall’s connection to consciousness – to the universe. There can be a steady drip of water that, over time, creates canyons or a flash...

My abstract art is a visual record of transformation and alignment. Two years ago, I stepped away from a corporate career to honor what my spirit truly needed, marking a profound and deliberate return to my creative roots. My piece, entitled EMANATE, centers on the...

I am retired and a mixed media artist with a lifelong love for things creative. I devote myself to exploring, experimenting and finding joy in the creative process. I took a few years off from art due to the illness and passing of my husband. Since then art has now...

I am an oil and cold wax artist whose work explores memory, identity, loss, and the quiet ways we reconstruct ourselves through change. I build my paintings through layers, adding and removing paint, scraping into surfaces, obscuring imagery, and allowing fragments of...

Two years ago I retired as an art therapist of 40 years and I am presently a full time artist. In the course of my life I have experienced grief in various manifestations: divorce, cancer, relationship, and deaths. Each grief I lost a part of myself yet, somehow, I...

Being a creative person gives me an avenue to express what is happening in my life, which it can be very healing when the need is there. Ten years ago, my life changed because of a health challenge. I was in unbearable pain in my head and face which affected my brain....

Believing that I Could begin againThat I could walk tallAnd hold my head highLet my love for myselfAnd others flow outwardLike a river Filling its banksConfidently reaching out my handsTo help thoseWho also have lost their wayPulling them upInto the light