18"x 24" Acrylic on Canvas
Artist: Adria Chavers
Inspired by: Jeralyis's Rainbow Sky by Jeralyis from Artemus Ward School
Suggested Value: $150.00

"This poem is written beautifully with descriptive language. I read the poem, it felt so positive and powerful which is something that the world needs more of."

22" x 37" x 2.5" - 3D sculpture in shadow box
Artist - Joyce Morrow Jones
Inspired by: I Am a Girl by the Artemus Ward Core Girls Team
Suggested Value: $399.00

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"Young females are dually confident about the gifts and uncertain about their awesomeness. I think this poem, I Am a Girl, expresses both aspects of growing up and celebrating being female."

"I Am a Girl and so much more" is expressed in this multicultural representation of young ladies. Different hair types and clothes and even body build are featured. Some are glamorously dressed with others are just fashionable. While physical features are being enhanced, it is the motivational words and affirmations which I hope will inspire the viewer."

11" x 14" - Mixed Media Painting
Artist: Diane Fleisch Hughes
Inspired by: I am a Girl by the Artemus Ward Core Girls Team
Suggested Value: $250.00

"The poem I am a Girl celebrates the stereotypical versions of how society views girls but also, and arguably more important, it is the celebration of the empowerment the writer feels that being a girl brings to them. "I am the vote, I am the choice, I am the fight, I am the voice." This gives me hope for the future of true equity for women and inspires me to set the example for these young poets. My painting is a reflection of the freedom and responsibility that comes with being a girl."

Diane Fleisch Hughes is a nationally board-certified Art Therapist and contemporary working artist based in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Her work is primarily mixed media figurative painting but she likes to experiment with all media. The work is intuitive and loose, often combining realistic images with areas of emotional color. Her mixing of mediums and painterly mark-making creates visual excitement on paper and canvas. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is in many private collections around the country.

10" x 20" Acrylic Painting (4 separate panels)
Artist - Angela Novak
Inspired by - Colors by Haley from Artemus Ward.
Suggested Value: $250.00

"I chose Colors because I live my life with colors and the poem made me envision a little girl thinking about all her favorite colors."

9" x 12" - Mixed Media - Framed (brown)
Artist - Allison Hennie -
Inspired by - Colors by Haley from Artemus Ward
Suggested Value: $500.00

Allison Hennie, AIA, NCARB, MA, has a passion for people, places, and the arts. Hennie currently serves as the City Architect and public art coordinator for the City of Lakewood, helping facilitate diverse solutions with a positive social impact. A Cleveland native, she has lived in two countries and twelve cities.

Migrant Boys, Cuidad Juarez, Mexico 2019
13" X 9" - Prismacolor
Artist - Mark Krieger
Inspired by - Speak Your Pain by Leeanna from Artemus Ward School
Suggested Value: $500.00

"I sketched this boy in the refugee ten camps in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico where his family was waiting to seek asylum in the U.S. He was exhausted, quiet and sad. The weather was cold, threatening snow. I took a photo to work from back in Cleveland. When I read Leeanna's poem I thought of him."

Born and raised in Cleveland, Mark Krieger earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Masters from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. His first year of graduate school was spent in Rome and he returned twice to Italy to spend a year painting. In 1976 he moved to Newport, RI. While he was there he traveled frequently to New York where he developed the gallery connections at Allan Stone and Austin. His studio is at 78th Street Studios, where he works on abstract painting and portraits of children whose lives are compromised by forces beyond their control.

24" x 44" - Mixed Medium & Botanicals
Artist - Mary Lou McPeek
Inspired by - Earth is Changing Around Us by the Artemus Ward Middle School Team
Suggested Value: $150.00

"My art is inspired by nature. I use natural materials and encourage everyone to notice the beauty of nature and repeating patterns found in nature to calm our days. I believe anyone who notices a tree in detail and promotes the care and preservation of all nature is doing a wonderful thing for future generations!"

Mary's love of botanicals began early in life. Her family owned a garden center/flower shop. As a child, she was always in the greenhouse. After design school, she was a floral designer there until her recent retirement. She now uses botanicals and natural materials in a new way. Instead of a vased design, she uses many of the same materials such as branches, moss, seed pods etc. but as a framed piece of art. Her pieces are made on the slate, driftwood, or repurposed frames. She believes a piece of art centered on nature can produce a calming effect on the viewer especially in a hectic office environment as well as a home.

17" x 23"C - Mixed Medium with Seal Resin Top
Artist - Susan Riha Parsley
Inspired by - Earth is Changing Around Us by the Artemus Ward Middle School Team
Suggested Value: $299.00

20" x 20" - Acrylic on Canvas
Artist - LaSaundra Robinson
Inspired by - Jeralyis's Rainbow Sky by Jeralyis from Artemus Ward
Suggested Value: $400.00

"My work right now is really about inner light and beauty and I feel the poem I chose really goes along with that."

LaSaundra Robinson is an artist that paints women. She works mostly in oil and acrylic on wood panels or canvas. The process starts with finding a face that calls to her. LaSaundra's work is about finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. She feels a lot of people hide their true selves and stereotypes keep us from reaching our true potential. LaSaundra uses portraits of women and flowers, along with lines, colors, and patterns to help express her ideas. If you make it through the maze of fears and doubts we all have, you can transform into whatever you want.' LaSaundra's more recent abstract portraits are about the strength and beauty of black women, letting their inner light come through. She wants to make paintings that allow you to feel the person you want to be.

18"x 18" x 2" - Mosaic
Artist - Mark Yasenchack
Inspired by - Earth is Changing Around Us by the Artemus Ward Middle School Team
Suggested Value: $250.00

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"In college, I was a biology major and still have a deep connection to and understanding of the natural world around me. The earnest and concerned voices of young people in this poem are what moved me to choose the poem and the mission at its heart."

Mark Yasenchack thinks of the glazed tesserae as gemstones, their color bright and shiny against the flat muted surface of the unglazed field clay tiles. Often tight ordered patterns in the stamped texture are disrupted with the addition of random glazed details and dots. Experimentation with this process yields unique batches of tiles, their individuality unrepeatable. Currently, Yasenchack concentrates on shape as much as a surface embellishment of the tiles, each batch or collection a shape to find a special place for in a mosaic. The clay tesserae and tiles are combined with glass, stone, metal, and other found elements. He uses the direct method to piece together these mosaics.