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."

11"x 14" acrylic and latex on canvas - Framed (black)
Artist: Laurel Herbold
Inspired by: TikTok by Ahna'liece from Clara E. Westropp School
Suggested Value: $325.00

"Ahna'liece's poem TikTok reflects her love for dancing. The movement of my Wee the People works well to express the energy and joy experienced when the music moves us."

Laurel Herbold is a freelance artist exhibiting in Northeast Ohio and the surrounding area since 1994. She maintains a studio/gallery space at the popular West 78th Street Studios since March 2011.
Her stylized paintings and ink drawings of tiny silhouetted figures have expanded into a wide range of fine art as well as a growing line of merchandise and collectibles.

9" x 12", Acrylic and gouache on panel (2 panels)
(2 separate panels)
Artist: Christina Turner
Inspired by: Dark Dreams by Nyla from Warner Girls Leadership Academy
Suggested Value: $175.00

"I was drawn to Nyla's poem because she also learns from dreams, especially when something in the dream feels distinctly on way, and then that feeling shifts. I think it's a tremendous insight to recognize that our fears and uncomfortable situations can shift with our perception and that close observation changes the way we see the world around us."

Christina Turner is an artist and writer living and working in Ohio. Her abstract paintings explore color, structure, and relationships between forms. When Christina isn't drawing, she's reading. She works at a public library because there's no place she'd rather be, except maybe out on a trail or home with her cats.

18" x 24" - Acrylic Pain
Artist - Gabrielle Lawrence
Inspired by: Black Lives Matter by Naomi from Campbell Elementary
Suggested Value: $200.00

"I read the poem and the image came to mind." The image is made up of the names of those lives lost to police brutality.

Gabrielle Lawerence did not start within the art field but instead pursued experiences to provide depth and new meanings. Now she is focusing on art to create meaningful images. The medium changes according to what works best to portray the image. She has received training from European Summer School, Cuyahoga Community College, and Case Western Reserve University.

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" Watercolor Painting- Matted and Framed (Black)
Artist: Emily Splain
Inspired by: Dark Dreams by Nyla from Warner Girls Leadership Academy
Suggested Value: $200.00

"I was inspired by the descriptions in this poem. I loved the falling in the water part of the dark dream."

9"x 12" - Mixed Media on Paper
Artist: Barbara Bachtell
Inspired by: Neptune the Seahorse by Colton from Holy Family Catholic School
Suggested Value: $400.00

"This poem has a great story full of vivid description, a loving family, a fiercely protective mother figure, and a happy resolution that appealed to me visually and morally. It also has some great rhymes. It inspired me to challenge myself with conveying multiple events within one work of art in a cohesive way."

Barbara Bachtell is a Cleveland Heights-based artist who grew up in Hudson, Ohio, Pittsburgh, PA, and Alburquerque, NM. She has a B.A. in Visual Art from Wesleyan University (CT) and a B.F.A. in Painting from Cleveland Institue of Art. She has incorporated both text elements and organic forms into her work for many years and is a published poet and writer as well as visual artist. Her drawing and small sculptures have been exhibited throughout Ohio and Wisconsin, at several locations.

14" x 20" - Ink, Charcoal, pastel on paper - Framed (Black)
Artist - Judith Brandon
Inspired by - Working Together by Ja'niyah from Wade Park School
Suggested Value: $850.00

"Ja'niyah sees the atmosphere and outer space as connected for humans. There is an understanding that together we can do more to break the barriers of Earth and Space. By taking big risks and going forward even when we may be fearful, is the only way to true freedom."

Storms, weather and infinite connections fascinate and inspire Judith. The geometry of a hurricane is the same spiral as a conch shell or sunflower. Galaxies look like our brain neurons. Through visual elements, spiritual practice and intuitive visualization Brandon explores that connection. Ink washes provide an abstract guide to the final composition. Layers of color build up depth and provide luminance. Brandon draws the final images with charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil to create storm clouds, ocean swells, and landscapes. Ultimately, the work is a visual representation of plunging into the unknown. Turning seemingly, lifeless materials into the vibrational current of imagery that moves people is the greatest experience.

16" x 20" - Acrylic and polymer clay on canvas -
Artist - Katherine Check
Inspired by - She is London by London from Willson school
Suggested Value: $150.00

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"I felt London's poem was so strong, independent, proud, and full of love. She took that feeling of love and joy and funneled it into her composition."

Katherine Check is an artist and licensed art educator in the State of Ohio. Formally trained in visual arts, with a concentration in sculpture at Cleveland State University. She has taught art in several Northeastern Ohio schools for 13 plus years. She is the founder of Flourishing Flamingo Arts, a production and education company that works with people to develop their own artistic skills in a non-judgmental environment that allows ALL people to feel successful and accomplished.

20" x 16" x 1" - Oil Painting on Canvas
Artist - Barb Everett
Inspired by - When I Walk Outside by Katie from Mound STEM School
Suggested Value: $350.00

"Simplicity and hope are two qualities that I see in Katie that I tried to illustrate. I painted two faces, one with eyes open and one with eyes closed. The top painting shows what she sees with open eyes )while walking) and the bottom face has closed eyes and looks to what she wants to see. Katie's long hair unities them and four butterflies signify hope, innocence, and the outrage to make positive change in her small world."

Barb Everett is a relatively new artist. She never painted or drew until she retired. She is inspired by her grandchildren, architecture, fashion, and anything that she finds worthy of celebration. Her goal is to bring the viewer up close and cause a reaction. She feels successful when she completes a piece and feels that she captured her heart and soul on canvas. She mostly uses oil because she loves the color and textures. She loves to exaggerate proportions and color to convey a mood.

12" x 24" - Print of piece of marker on bleeding tissue background
Artist - Gwendolyn Garth
Inspired by - We Need to Change by Gregory from Newton D. Baker School of Arts
Suggested Value: $500.00

"As a community activist, I have come to believe that the change in the community must come from changes within our own selves. I believe that to improve the world we must start with self."

Gwendolyn Garth is a native Clevelander. She is an African American multimedia artist, graduate of Cleveland Municipal School District, graduate of Women in Transition Program (Tri-C), a certified Creative Arts Therapy Specialist (Tri-C), Neighborhood Leadership Development Program graduate (NLDP), founder and CEO of Kings and Queens of Art and a 501(c) Arts Organization. Garth's real work will always be about reinventing communities and perceptions about the people in those communities. Garth will continuously do so by employing the therapeutic value of art and by thinking and working holistically to engage with others through collaboration and transparency.

18" x 24" - Acrylic on Canvas
Artist- Mary K. Thomas
Inspired by - My World by Zallie from Buhrer Dual Language Academy
Suggested Value: $200.00

"I chose My World because it has a freshness and it seemed to be very whimsical with a light and airy softness that the author expresses through color and the natural world around her."

Enhancing the lives of others through inspiring, creative and fun use of art to heal and give hope to our community. Sharing my love and passion for the arts with the hopes of enriching the lives of others through inspired self-expression. Place keeping and placemaking art tell our stories. Art inspires, encourages and art empowers.

18" X 24" - Acrylic on Canvas
Artist - Mary K. Thomas
Inspired by - My World by Zallie from Buhrer Dual Language Academy
Suggested Value: $200.00

"I chose My World because it had a freshness and it seemed to be very whimsical with a light and airy softness that the author expresses through color and the natural world around her."

Enhancing the lives of others through inspiring, creative and fun use of art to heal and give hope to the community. Sharing my love and passion for the arts with the hopes of enriching the lives of others through inspired self-expression. Placing keeping and placemaking art tells our stories. Art inspires, art encourages and art empowers.

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.