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Contemporary Inspirations

Kristine Poole

I was recently looking through one of my collections of inspiring artists and artworks. Once again immersed in a few delicious moments of wonder at all the things humans think up and make, I spent some time thinking about how grateful I am for the countless contemporary creative visions we can experience with just a few clicks of a button. It's remarkable. From my earliest art crushes to my life-long creative love affairs, looking at…

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The Creative Safe Space

Vanessa Lemen

May 22, 2025 - What is a creative safe space to you? To me, this is a place to make time for exploration, to venture into uncharted territory in order to learn about something we don’t know, to see more clearly what we do know, and that there is always room to expand upon that knowing and learning. This is a space for new directions, to acknowledge what got us to this point and look to that with gratitude for having known what that has given us, taught us, and how it’s helped us grow. This is a moment to take for ourselves to create something to see what shows up, and in the doing of that, we see that there is a forever space where the story shifts and we can always come back here to see ourselves…

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