Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance Round 10

In March 2020 when we went on lockdown due to the pandemic, the Shoebox PR team created “Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance” as a way to stay connected and to check in with and support each other. We are now going into Round 10 and have enjoyed the process, experiences and friendships that we have made. The project draws on the tradition of Jazz and Exquisite Corpse as a way for the artists to ping pong creatively off of each other. We are looking forward to continuing on for as long as we are needed.

Please join us for the opening reception of the online exhibition via zoom Saturday January 2, 3-5pm pst.

Featured Artists:

Sema’Jay Hall, Francisco Alvarado, Brenda Oelbaum, Beatrice Antonie Martino, Arpad Petrass, Galina Kovshilovsky, Michele Mekel, rain lucien matheke, Katie Small, Madeline Arnault, Kess Kin, Pascha Goodwin, Nancy Good, Gini Mann-Deibert, britta k, Sonji, Gail Downey, Alfred Lowenheim, Pau Gold, BEATRICE WOLERT, Angela Brooks, Ibuki Kuramochi, Cynthia D. Cole, Joanne Le Cocq, Jess Levey, Dellis Frank, Jody Zellen, Aazam Irilian, Ada Pullini Brown, Lyla Paakkanen, Rebecca Bennett Duke, ADEOLA DAVIES-AIYELOJA, Victoria Martino, Ann Storc, Jamia Weir, Stacy Prihoda, Kayla Cloonan, Yulia Morris, thomas jones, David Forlano, Libby Hartigan, olive hays, Reenie Charriere, Nancy Kay Turner, Maria Sathaliya, Ashley Violett, Reksi Muhammad Sidik, Stacie Birky Greene, Eva-Marie Amiya, Corinne Lightweaver, Sean-Michael Gettys, Genie Davis

Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance Round 1 can be seen here Round 2 can be seen here Round 3 can be seen here and Round #4 can be seen here Round 5 can be seen here Round 6 can be seen here Round 7 can be seen here Round 8 can be seen here Round 9 can be seen here

Round 11 is open for participation through January 10 at 4pm pst. Info on how to submit is here

Cover artwork by Ada Pullini Brown

Ada Pullini Brown and Lyla Paakkanen

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Angela Brooks and Ibuki Kuramochi

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Arpad Petrass and Galina Kovshilovsky

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Brenda Oelbaum and Beatrice Antonie Martino

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2.1_Beatrice Antonie Martino

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2_Brenda Oelbaum Peekabo

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Britta K and Sonji Art

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Cynthia Cole and Joanne Le Cocq

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1 Cynthia Cole_The Window

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2 Joanne Le Cocq_Looking thru my blinds 2 different moments

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3 Cynthia Cole_A Light Wind

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4 Joanne Le Cocq_Watching my hair drift out to sea

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5 Cynthia Cole_Looking Through Your Blinds

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6 Joanne Le Cocq_NIght Mirror

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7 Cynthia Cole_The Guide

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8-A Joanne Le Cocq_The Pebble

8-B Joanne Le Cocq_The Pebble (video)

9 Cynthia Cole In my dream last night

Eva-Marie Amiya and Corinne Lightweaver

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Gail Downey and Al Lowenheim

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Jamia Weir and Stacy Prihoda

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Jess Levey and Dellis Frank

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2 Dellis Frank Shadows

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4 Dellis Frank Cosmos

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5 Jess Levey

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6 Dellis Frank Space Garden

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8 Dellis Frank Exposing the Light

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10 Dellis FrankFall Into Winter

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12 Dellis Frank Fall Storm

Jody Zellen and Aazam Irilian

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Kayla Cloonan and Yulia Morris

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1_KaylaCloonan_WiththeRug

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2 Yulia Morris_Before Pandemic when people could sit next to each other

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3_KaylaCloonan_OntheBed

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4 Yulia Morris_Who_ What_ Where_

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5_KaylaCloonan_HowDoYouKnowYou_reReadyAlive

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6 Yulia Morris_Breathe

7_KaylaCloonan_Inhale_Exhale

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8 Yulia Morris_Let_s go!

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9_KaylaCloonan_WhereAreWeGoing

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10 Yulia Morris_Choose an image and we go there!

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11_1_KaylaCloonan_ICannotChoose

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12 Yulia Morris_The plane is landing

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13_KaylaCloonan_ReadyforAdventure

14 Yulia Morris_YAY!

15_KaylaCloonan_DigitizetheLandscape

Kess Kin and Pascha Goodwin

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Libby Hartigan and Olive Hays

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7 Libby Hartigan File Cabinet

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9 Libby Hartigan Tectonic

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Madeline Arnault and Katherine Small

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Maria Sathaliya and Ashley Hester

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Nancy Good and Gini Mann-Diebert

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Pau Gold and Bea Wolert

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Rain Matheke and Michele Mekel

2 rain lucien matheke_lie with me, darkly, even for just a moment

4 rain lucien matheke-and my scales wither, and slowly flake away, like dust

6 rain lucien matheke-molting

7–Michele Mekel–Zane

8 rain lucien matheke_untitled (skeeter)

10 rain lucien matheke_familiar and frozen, you may only fly in your dreams, now

12 rain lucien matheke_ lady liberty in solace

14 rain lucien matheke_testing line (for peace and panic)

16 rain lucien matheke_ it’s been recommended to have a drink with my demon

Rebecca Bennett Duke and Adeola Davies Aiyeloja

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2 Adeoladavies Aiyeloja When The Sun Goes Down

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4 Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja What Comes After The Tree Fell

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6 Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja Release With Water

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8 Adeola Davies_Aiyeloja Lines and Textures

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10 Adeola Davies Aiyeloja Day and Night

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12 Adeola Davies Aiyeloja Soul Digging

Reenie Charriere and Nancy Kay Turner

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1.RCharriere_GridLife_mixed media_9x12

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2.NTurner-BlowingInTheWind_12x16__mixedmedia

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3.Rcharriere_Climbing_ mixedmedia_9x12_

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4.NTurner_Alchemy_12 x 16__mixedmedia

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5.RCharriere_Ashore_ 14 x 11__mixed media

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6.NTurner_The Tempest_ 16 x 12__mixedmedia_2020

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7 RCharriere_Snow Daze_14_x11__mixedmedia

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8.NTurner_RisingTide_12 x 11__Mixedmedia_2020

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9.RCharriere_Cascade_mixedmedia on yupo_14x11_

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Reksi Muhammad Sidik and Stacie Birky Greene

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Sean Michael-Gettys and Genie Davis

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Family

Are you the clouds in the sky? The glitter on my thighs? The iridescent inside of an abalone shell?

Are you the words goodbye, the first hello, the last sigh? You were family – then,

you had to be put aside, because I didn’t want to hide more pain.

You see it another way, that you did not have any blame, that you did not steal from me the precious thing you gave.

Family is a concept that sometimes brings shame. I may forget, but not forgive –

or just live another life. My family in clouds, in the loves I have found, inside a shell

of my skin. But it is of the soul not flesh and bone, that makes true kin.

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Glow

Oh jeweled thing my treasure. In my heart still without measure.

Glow with sun, out shine pain with hope, this is one slippery slope – and I am rolling.

Glow. In the end, what have you got to show but the shine you know

is still inside you. Go. Because to stay where you are is senseless.

The heart does what it must do. The eye sees only what shows.

Make this not about the darkness taking hold – make it glow.

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Northern Lights

These are not the Northern Lights, but they are dancing. In spite of it all, or all because

we are dancing, too. Stop making it look so glamorous, this spirit-exhausting year.

In the heart of loss, we raise our shot glasses to the sea, we look to the waves,

to the sky, to a dream in which electric lights become a dazzle.

Wake me when this dark sleepis over, still transformed but better blessed.

Touch me when we get to dancing, hold me when we go to rest.

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Cast-off/Cast Away

As the waves recede, I’m left here grieving in the glorious day. The tide recedes

and leaves me gasping. In the dazzle of water, a light will shine – leading me.

Cast-off, cast away. The pearly-belly mussels upended, empty. The baby clams

waiting for the tide to change. Oh, the succor in the sea, from the depths of darkness, carry me.

Leave me not lost, tossed on the shore, show me the ever more. The wheel of gulls,

the cry of surf, the ache and surge, the loss, the purge. Rebirth.

8 Sean Michael Gettys swirling waters

9 Genie Davis

Swirl

Dance of light, candle flames struck in the chill garden at sunset,

when the sky over the sea inflames the trees with radiance.

Night and the illuminated silver snowmen sway and sing of holiday things,

and the eclipsed moon trails pearl tears on the dusty ground. From a quick photo

you paint something precious, an ecstatic evocation across a dusty field –

as the moon spilled a soft clouded white. Like milk in my coffee

this life, a swirl – of sips and shapes color, fragrance.

The pine stillness. The rush of river. The icicle night. The desert winter.

The confluence of sea and stream. My ghost dream. The deep black green of the jade cliff, of the walk along the ridge.

Never looking back.

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The Milky Way Observed (and other things)

Is it the stars in the sky, the Milky Way floating by, diamond tears in the eyes

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Do you see my disguise as magic nights roll by and there’s only the quiet

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Where might we be in the radiant trees as the flutter of dreams caresses the cheek

flies far above into the memory of love and so the change comes

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Is it my name? Your shadow the same, that spiral darkness remains

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12 Sean Michael Gettys

13 Genie Davis

‘It’s the Season

The moon is a sliver of radiant pearl, her shadow a silvery jewel. She follows the transient radiance of sun

burnt orange and royal blue. Jupiter and Saturn are near twins tonight, fused with the magic of love.

I’ll remember you always, bright star – briefly fallen to me from above.

King tide, shore birds, a song in Spanish, half-heard, the glory of Christmas lights. Here is the evening,

it’s embers still gleaming, random thoughts still streaming – as if we were dreaming – faraway signals unheard.

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Sema’Jay Hall and Francisco Alvarado

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Thomas Jones and David Forlano

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Veronica Martino and Ann Storc

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