May faith, hope, and love be yours in abundance this holiday season. See you back in 2017! May You Always by Catherine Pulsifer Faith, hope and charity May we always have these Not just at Christmas time But all the year throughout. May you always have Something to hope for Faith in something bigger than…
Because of Tracy’s physical defect, the other middle school students would taunt: “Don’t go near her. She’s got some sort of disease. Stay away or you’ll get it too.” The shunning pained her. A couple of years later during high school, Tracy noticed Rick, another student sitting on the bus by himself. So Tracy asked…
By guest writer Brittany Costantini My story does not begin with being shoved into a locker or being physically harmed in any way. I was never bullied to the point of not wanting to go to school because I was scared of what would happen. However, I was bullied in a way that has affected…
Courage Ablaze tells the story of the innocent women and children caught in the crossfire of annihilation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Though the fires of adversity scorched their families, these fierce women are salvaging what’s left and starting over. Since first debuting at ArtPrize 2012, I completed twenty-five additional portraits and recorded…
Healing in Arts successfully creates community with a new healing paradigm for art making in a world where rapid cultural fragmentation alienates us. A superficial world where people ricochet from one activity to the next. A cyber culture where we rack up 5,847 synthetic Facebook friends. A culture where we spend less and less real…
That night I couldn’t sleep. Images of humans displayed like animals in a pet store window haunted me. When I was nineteen, while traveling through Europe, our tour bus stopped at the Red Light Windows of Amsterdam. As I stood in the middle of the district, window after window displayed women perched on chairs—selling their…