Singing with the Nightingales
Singing with the Nightingales is a special edition catalog. It contains the entirety of the show; at 50 pages it is perfect bound. Our printer does a lovely job with our color printing. In full disclosure the cost of printing is $11, the cost of the catalog is $21, $10 will go to humanitarian support for the Ukraine people. Our top choice for donations is savethechildren.com, where 85% of every dollar goes straight to their mission to provide lifesaving relief to children.
100% of the sale proceeds of this catalog will go to humanitarian support for the Ukraine people
Amidst the many artistic expressions being sent into the world
in support of the Ukrainian people, we add our voices.
in support of the Ukrainian people, we add our voices.
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100% of the sale proceeds of this catalog will go to humanitarian support for the Ukraine people |
Contributors
Clare S. Dygert Dixie Denman Junius Amy Rodriguez Giuliana Crocivera Amanda Earl Nicola Winborn J.I. Kleinberg Carol Ann Moon Charlotte Jung Tommasina Bianca Squadrito Terri Witek Karla Van Vliet Carol Lynne Knight Kristine Snodgrass Dona Mayoora Mary Olivanti-Duerksen Angela Caporaso Marcia Brauer Sue Scavo Sylvia Van Nooten WAAVe Global - Women Asemic Artists & Visual Poets |
A WAAVE Response to the situation in Ukraine
Art during a crisis helps both the artists and our viewer-collaborators to process what is happening. It gives form to things too big to picture. It allows us to wrap our minds around what we struggle to understand. Our work has the power to increase empathy and compassion in those who view it, to encourage those affected, and to advocate for the voiceless. The very act of creating says firmly that we refuse this moment of death and destruction, that we hold space for compassion, that we will not let trauma shut down the very thing that makes us human.
Creation is an act of bravery. It requires us to align ourselves with the subject of our work, to look deeply at it with our hearts. By doing that we develop a deeper understanding and empathy with it, or in this case, them, the people of the Ukraine.
The use of asemic writing in this work allows us to express the inexpressible. People are sense makers. So much of our energy is devoted to decoding and figuring out what it all means. When the situation in front of us is as unbelievable as that in Ukraine we struggle to name what we are seeing. Asemic writing allows us to speak the unspeakable, the yet unknowable. It allows us to stand in the mystery without having to assign meaning. In that way, this work is a balm, a healing on the world.
The work of the artists gathered here represents the wide variety of responses to this moment. We stand with Ukraine. All of us who have answered this call have brought our skill, passion, and strength to our response. In all our various and different ways, we offer what we can to those suffering from this unimaginable attack. We set loose in the world our fierce wishes for peace for the people of Ukraine.
-Clare S. Dygert
Thank you to Clare S. Dygert and the artists of WAAVe for their help in creating this show and their amazingly quick response to our call. VVG, Karla Van Vliet
See Artist Bios below.
Art during a crisis helps both the artists and our viewer-collaborators to process what is happening. It gives form to things too big to picture. It allows us to wrap our minds around what we struggle to understand. Our work has the power to increase empathy and compassion in those who view it, to encourage those affected, and to advocate for the voiceless. The very act of creating says firmly that we refuse this moment of death and destruction, that we hold space for compassion, that we will not let trauma shut down the very thing that makes us human.
Creation is an act of bravery. It requires us to align ourselves with the subject of our work, to look deeply at it with our hearts. By doing that we develop a deeper understanding and empathy with it, or in this case, them, the people of the Ukraine.
The use of asemic writing in this work allows us to express the inexpressible. People are sense makers. So much of our energy is devoted to decoding and figuring out what it all means. When the situation in front of us is as unbelievable as that in Ukraine we struggle to name what we are seeing. Asemic writing allows us to speak the unspeakable, the yet unknowable. It allows us to stand in the mystery without having to assign meaning. In that way, this work is a balm, a healing on the world.
The work of the artists gathered here represents the wide variety of responses to this moment. We stand with Ukraine. All of us who have answered this call have brought our skill, passion, and strength to our response. In all our various and different ways, we offer what we can to those suffering from this unimaginable attack. We set loose in the world our fierce wishes for peace for the people of Ukraine.
-Clare S. Dygert
Thank you to Clare S. Dygert and the artists of WAAVe for their help in creating this show and their amazingly quick response to our call. VVG, Karla Van Vliet
See Artist Bios below.
Bios:
Marcia Brauer is a mixed media artist living in Northern California. With a passion for experimenting with various media, she is currently working in acrylic, handmade inks and flower pigments, textiles, cyanotypes, and photography. Highly influenced by a love of nature and the outdoors, as well as ancient manuscripts, her works are infused with text and elements from the natural world. Marcia has exhibited in Northern California, Minnesota, and has been a part of several group shows in Italy and Switzerland. Marciambrauer@gmail.com
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962 and she is a visual artist from Caserta (Italy). Many of her works are part of public and private collection adding numerous. publications to her credit. www.angelacaporaso.com/ angela.caporaso@inwind.it
Giuliana Crocivera was born in Palermo on 4/5/1961. She graduated from the state art school of Palermo. She has three children. For three years she has been publishing her latest works on Facebook and Instagram. On YouTube you can see one of her virtual shows Emotional Pandemic video made in 2020. She has theater experiences, two solo exhibitions and some group shows behind her.
Dixie Denman Junius is a mixed media abstract artist living in the Nortwestern US. In much of her current work, she uses watercolor, ink and other mediums to evoke an emotion or to convey an interaction with nature’s whims. She often incorporates asemic writing to interpret the wordless poems within.
Mary Olivanti-Duerksen (zhe, hir, hirs) A nonbinary visual, sound and asemic poet. Seeks justice and transformation.
Clare S. Dygert (she/her) is a queer, female emerging artist and poet who explores the themes of feminine beauty and power, impermanence and devotion using paint, ink, photography-basedimages, and asemic writing. Her work is conceptual, intuitive, and atmospheric, and relies on the collaboration of the viewer/reader, to give meaning to the images. She is experiencing progressive blindness, and although this is not something a visual artist would seek out, Clare uses her blindness as a way to deeply explore how what is seen shapes our world view and finds this to be an amazing support to her art and poetry. Her website is www.claredygert.com.
Amanda Earl (she/her) is a Canadian polyamorous pansexual feminist writer, editor, visual poet & publisher. Earl is the fallen angel of AngelHousePress, editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry & managing editor of Bywords.ca.
Charlotte Jung is minimalist concrete poet writing out of Chicago. Her most recent publication is a z-folded leaflet, Final Figures, from Non Plus Ultra. Please see www. charlottejungwriter.com for more information about Charlotte and her writing.
J.I. Kleinberg’s visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. An artist, poet, freelance writer, and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Carol Lynne Knight is the co-director of Anhinga Press. She is a poet and visual artist living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her book, If I Go Missing is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. She has two books of poetry, Quantum Entanglement and A Fretted Terrain, Like Mars from Apalachee Press.
Dona Mayoora aka Donmay Donamayoora is a Bilingual/Visual/Experimental poet, author and creator of Calligraphy Stories( onomatopoeic graphic narratives without text). She is also a Sulivan Scholar at MFA of America’s Poetry in the Expanded Field.
Carol Ann Moon is a librarian and poet. She teaches in St. Leo, Florida. Her poems may be found in the following litmags: The Sandhill Review, PSPOETS.com, and Aquifer, to name a few.
Amy Rodriguez is a member of WAAVe and was a featured artist in WAAVe Global Gallery 2021. Her work has also appeared in Nicola Winborn’s Attic Zine and is shared regularly at Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate on Facebook.
Sue Scavo is a poet, visual artist and dreamwork practitioner/teacher. Her book Buried [A Place] (Anhinga Press, 2022) is a haunting descent narrative re-imagining Dante’s Inferno through the lens of the feminine. She is also co-editor and co-founder of deluge Literary and Arts Journal. Twitter: @susanmariescavo; Instagram: smscavo; her website: www.suescavo. com.
Kristine Snodgrass is an artist, poet, publisher, and professor living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her recent book, Rank, explores digital manipulation of images. Kristine is the founder of WAAVe, a global group of women asemic artists and visual poets.
Tommasina Bianca Squadrito While I was studying philosophy and sculpture my attention went to a Calligraphy without writing that I developed through movements, installations, lines. My blog is http://officinapatosq.blogspot.com/
Sylvia Van Nooten is an asemic artist living in western Colorado. Asemic art, with its pastiche of ‘language’ and images, allows her to merge texts and painting creating a hybrid form of communication which is open to interpretation.
Karla Van Vliet is a poet, artist and Dreamwork analyst. Her newest books are She Speaks in Tongues (Anhinga Press,) a collection of poems and asemic writings, and Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings (Shanti Arts.) She is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, and founder of Van Vliet Gallery. Instagram: KarlaVanVliet vanvlietarts.com vanvlietgallery.com
Nicola Winborn is a visual artist based in West Yorkshire in the UK. She has special interests in Asemic Writing, Vispo, Collage, Slow Stitch, Zines and Digital Remixing (of her analogue work). She is obsessed with wildflowers and a tree in her village whose name is Agnes.
Terri Witek is the author of 7 books of poetry: her newest collection is The Rattle Egg (2021). Witek teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes; their work together is represented by The Liminal in Valencia, Spain. terriwitek.com
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962 and she is a visual artist from Caserta (Italy). Many of her works are part of public and private collection adding numerous. publications to her credit. www.angelacaporaso.com/ angela.caporaso@inwind.it
Giuliana Crocivera was born in Palermo on 4/5/1961. She graduated from the state art school of Palermo. She has three children. For three years she has been publishing her latest works on Facebook and Instagram. On YouTube you can see one of her virtual shows Emotional Pandemic video made in 2020. She has theater experiences, two solo exhibitions and some group shows behind her.
Dixie Denman Junius is a mixed media abstract artist living in the Nortwestern US. In much of her current work, she uses watercolor, ink and other mediums to evoke an emotion or to convey an interaction with nature’s whims. She often incorporates asemic writing to interpret the wordless poems within.
Mary Olivanti-Duerksen (zhe, hir, hirs) A nonbinary visual, sound and asemic poet. Seeks justice and transformation.
Clare S. Dygert (she/her) is a queer, female emerging artist and poet who explores the themes of feminine beauty and power, impermanence and devotion using paint, ink, photography-basedimages, and asemic writing. Her work is conceptual, intuitive, and atmospheric, and relies on the collaboration of the viewer/reader, to give meaning to the images. She is experiencing progressive blindness, and although this is not something a visual artist would seek out, Clare uses her blindness as a way to deeply explore how what is seen shapes our world view and finds this to be an amazing support to her art and poetry. Her website is www.claredygert.com.
Amanda Earl (she/her) is a Canadian polyamorous pansexual feminist writer, editor, visual poet & publisher. Earl is the fallen angel of AngelHousePress, editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry & managing editor of Bywords.ca.
Charlotte Jung is minimalist concrete poet writing out of Chicago. Her most recent publication is a z-folded leaflet, Final Figures, from Non Plus Ultra. Please see www. charlottejungwriter.com for more information about Charlotte and her writing.
J.I. Kleinberg’s visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. An artist, poet, freelance writer, and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Carol Lynne Knight is the co-director of Anhinga Press. She is a poet and visual artist living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her book, If I Go Missing is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. She has two books of poetry, Quantum Entanglement and A Fretted Terrain, Like Mars from Apalachee Press.
Dona Mayoora aka Donmay Donamayoora is a Bilingual/Visual/Experimental poet, author and creator of Calligraphy Stories( onomatopoeic graphic narratives without text). She is also a Sulivan Scholar at MFA of America’s Poetry in the Expanded Field.
Carol Ann Moon is a librarian and poet. She teaches in St. Leo, Florida. Her poems may be found in the following litmags: The Sandhill Review, PSPOETS.com, and Aquifer, to name a few.
Amy Rodriguez is a member of WAAVe and was a featured artist in WAAVe Global Gallery 2021. Her work has also appeared in Nicola Winborn’s Attic Zine and is shared regularly at Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate on Facebook.
Sue Scavo is a poet, visual artist and dreamwork practitioner/teacher. Her book Buried [A Place] (Anhinga Press, 2022) is a haunting descent narrative re-imagining Dante’s Inferno through the lens of the feminine. She is also co-editor and co-founder of deluge Literary and Arts Journal. Twitter: @susanmariescavo; Instagram: smscavo; her website: www.suescavo. com.
Kristine Snodgrass is an artist, poet, publisher, and professor living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her recent book, Rank, explores digital manipulation of images. Kristine is the founder of WAAVe, a global group of women asemic artists and visual poets.
Tommasina Bianca Squadrito While I was studying philosophy and sculpture my attention went to a Calligraphy without writing that I developed through movements, installations, lines. My blog is http://officinapatosq.blogspot.com/
Sylvia Van Nooten is an asemic artist living in western Colorado. Asemic art, with its pastiche of ‘language’ and images, allows her to merge texts and painting creating a hybrid form of communication which is open to interpretation.
Karla Van Vliet is a poet, artist and Dreamwork analyst. Her newest books are She Speaks in Tongues (Anhinga Press,) a collection of poems and asemic writings, and Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings (Shanti Arts.) She is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, and founder of Van Vliet Gallery. Instagram: KarlaVanVliet vanvlietarts.com vanvlietgallery.com
Nicola Winborn is a visual artist based in West Yorkshire in the UK. She has special interests in Asemic Writing, Vispo, Collage, Slow Stitch, Zines and Digital Remixing (of her analogue work). She is obsessed with wildflowers and a tree in her village whose name is Agnes.
Terri Witek is the author of 7 books of poetry: her newest collection is The Rattle Egg (2021). Witek teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes; their work together is represented by The Liminal in Valencia, Spain. terriwitek.com