Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance Round 7
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 8 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 SaturdayOctober 3rd, 3-5pm pst.
Featured Artists:
Ibuki Kuramochi, David Forlano, Emily Wiseman, Lina Kogan, Lora ChauDavis, Stacy Prihoda, Ashley Violet Hester, Darren McManus, Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja, Xavier Cázares Cortéz, Jody Zellen, Kerrie Smith, Rhiannon Barry, Tom Jones, Martin Cox, Lyla Paakkanen, Zsuzsanna Safranyos, Brooke Metcalfe, BARD (Barbara Ayala Rugg Diehl), Andrea Nhuch, Beatrice Antonie Martino, Olive Hays, Elena Viktorovna Stromberger, Joanne Le Cocq, Marta Feinstein, Maureen Vastardis, Miglė Ceinorytė, Daryke Cassar, Beth Lynne, Stacie Birky Greene, Angela Brooks, Jessica Nora, Kimberlee Koym, Hilary White, Valerie Samuel Henderson, Britta K, Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Kayla Cloonan, Adrienne Cole, Mizz Conchi, Anne M Bray, Pau Gold, Galina Kovshilovsky, Michele Mekel, Natalie Roper, Nina Zdanovic, Heather Arndt, Katie Stubblefield, Amy Uyeki, Annie Stromquist, Genie Davis, Ann Storc, Kristine Augustyn, Sean-Michael Gettys, Francisco Alvarado, Karen Hochman Brown, Jonathan Brooks, Betty Rosen, Susan Joseph, Molly Peters, Madeline Arnault, Marthe Aponte, Lucy Boyd-Wilson, Catherine W Singer, Pascha Goodwin, Stacey Moore, Brenda Oelbaum, Sky Palkowitz, Susan Karhroody, Deborah Reilly, Nancy Kay Turner, Phoenix Coverley, Aazam Irilian, Elaine T Nguyen, Dani Lamorte, Robin Repp, Dellis Frank, Maria Sathaliya, Stefania Aldeberan Breveglieri, Stephen Anderson, Michelle Lopate, Sue Cutler
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 8 is open for participation through October 11 at 4pm pst. Info on how to submit is here
Cover image by Sean-Michael Gettys
Artist Talk October 3, 2020
Natalie Roper and Nina Zdanovic
Susan Joseph and Molly Peters
Dellis Frank and Maria Sathaliya
Jody Zellen and Kerrie Smith
Beth Lynn and Stacie Birky Greene
Stefania Aldebaran Breveglieri and Stephen Anderson
Angela Rae Brooks and Jessica Nora
1 Angela Rae Brooks _ Disjointed 
2 Jessica Nora_FacingWithin 
3 Angela Rae Brooks_DreamBubble 
4 Jessica Nora_WhenICloseMyEyes 
5 Angela Rae Brooks_Hypnagogia 
6 Jessica Nora_TimeWorms 
7 Angela Rae Brooks_Falling 
8 Jessica Nora_PeakingThrough 
9 Angela Rae Brooks_Drifting 
10 Jessica Nora_TimeWarp 
11 Angela Rae Brooks_RainbowHero
Francisco Alvarado and Karen Hochman Brown
Ibuki Kuramochi and David Forlano
Kristine Augustyn and Sean-Michael Gettys
Stacey Moore and Pascha Goodwin
Rhiannon Barry and Tom Jones
Madeline Arnault and Marthe Aponte
Jonathan Brooks and Betty Rosen
Aazam Irilian and Elaine Nguyen
Anne M Bray and Pau Gold
Kimberlee Koym-Murteira and Hilary White
Miglé Ceinoryté and Daryke Cassar
1 Miglė Ceinorytė 
2 Daryke Cassar 
3 Miglė Ceinorytė 
4 Daryke Cassar 
5 Miglė Ceinorytė 
6 Daryke Cassar 
7 Miglė Ceinorytė 
8 Daryke Cassar 
9 Miglė Ceinorytė 
10 Daryke Cassar 
11 Miglė Ceinorytė
Lora ChauDavis and Stacy Prihoda
Beatrice Antonie Martino and Olive Hays
1 Beatrice Antonie Martino_1 
1 Beatrice Antonie Martino_2 
1 Beatrice Antonie Martino_3
Genie Davis and Ann Storc
1 Genie Davis
Apocalypse and Beauty
We are the orange sun,
the cracked street,
the bitter green oil stains
on the sidewalk.
We are the flower hidden
among empty stalks,
the shadow of a smoky moon,
the ash sweeping broom.
We invite the monsters in,
then slay them at the table.
We may not prevail,
or we will. Down the wine.
We try fighting
ourselves, our exhaustion.
Would we know the end times
from the false labor pains?
Birthing takes a long night
for the human species.
I drop this litter of hope,
apocalypse and beauty.
The road takes longer walking,
but the stray cats with bells
on their collars,
and the delicate shadows,
and the starlight wonder
caught in your throat —
aches with the telling
of these rare travels.
3A Genie Davis
Ghosts
There are ghosts in the trees,
RIP Halloween,
for now, putting a hold on joy.
The night is young,
the haunt is old,
the ghost of a soul,
a devouring of time,
an insolence.
Solace, solstice,
Virgo moon,
coming soon,
adrift in a boat
of a starless sky.
Once you peel back
the sheet
and see what’s beneath
you can’t unknow
what you’ve seen.
Some things are real,
others a dream.
Ghosts …live where
you used to be,
occupying the cobwebbed
corners of my heart.
5 Genie Davis
I am
I am light in darkness
- the futile, persistent spark.
I am either wonderful
or awful
depending on each heart.
We do what we do
because we need to,
Driven by
love, pain, trust.
There is an expression
of good wishes,
sometimes because
we must.
Brush up against time
and darkness,
brush against hope
and fear. There are
cudgels that we brandish,
and those from which we cower,
both reside so near.
Tonight, light the candle,
taste the honey.
There’s a fragrant wish
- it will be a better year
tomorrow.
I am
simply
this.
7 Genie Davis
Loss
It’s all loss, isn’t it?
Even memories.
You can’t cry
for what is gone –
in an instant.
But the cruel knowing
of what was
bound to be.
I look to the light
beyond the darkness.
That is a human need.
There is no reason
to believe this.
It is the soul
still seeking
a way out of grief.
9 Genie Davis
The Whole of It
Hole in the ground,
hole in my heart.
Whole of my life,
right from the start.
Dig in deep,
dig out slow.
Build it back up,
sink it in stone.
Tear down and tear up,
tears happy and sad.
Longing for things
you never had.
It will be better!
A time for change.
It will be more and more,
more of the same.
Run away now,
running in place.
Always awaiting
that moment of grace.
Go if you will,
stay if you must.
Sometimes a flower
rises from dust.
11A Genie Davis
Moon in a Starless Sky
I hit the wall.
Thrown back words
struggling to circumvent
small deaths.
There is a moon in a starless sky,
water rushing by.
Against a monolith of time,
a black cat is climbing.
This is a new moon,
barely present in the sky.
I am done for now,
perhaps forever.
Beyond the barrier,
past the last dripping shadows,
a cluster of white plumeria,
a row of faux gas lanterns.
Ground soaked verdant
from the last spray of hose.
Everything emptied out,
do you see that now?
Devoid,
the last drops gone,
the stars
are missing, too.
There may always be
hope…
when the wall
is broken.
The shattering
shivers and divides
what grows
from itself.
13 Genie Davis
And That Is All She Wrote
There’s a night song singing.
Where I was happiest,
on a warm beach
under an iridescent sky.
I might’ve loved you then,
but I didn’t want to try.
The wind stills,
on a sunflower empty
road in West Texas.
Bats careened,
drunk with heat,
from the cave of tombs.
Open the room inside your heart
and let in light
again.
A filament of bright
across a strangely sullen
velvet sky.
Was it always too much
or too little, or too soon?
A longing for something —
perfect like a rose
in the blue glass vase
of a haunted hotel.
When the shadows spilled
across the plumeria,
gas lamps flickering;
past the magnolia
steaming in the midday
cornbread-color sun,
making long lines
against the azure
waters of the Gulf Coast,
at the pink hotel
where I stayed up all night
drinking tea with you
by the quietly closed
hotel pool.
Dripping innocence,
only the heart wandered…
into the desert hills,
among mosaic studded rocks
and sudden patches of snow.
The iciness of home,
for winter is coming,
on sleeted roads,
on the steel blue fire escape,
where we kept the milk,
in the blizzard;
watching El Spiritu De La Colmena,
during that great storm,
a time frozen of trust.
Valerie Samuel Henderson and britta K
Adeola Davies Aiyeloja and Xavier Cázares Cortéz
4 Xavier Cázares Cortéz 
5 Adeola Davies Aiyeloja 
6 Xavier Cázares Cortéz
Catherine Singer and Lucy Boyd-Wilson
Zsuzsanna Safranyos and Brooke Metfalfe
Heather Arndt and Katie Stubblefield
Michelle Lopate and Sue Cutler
1_Michelle Lopate “And the finch’s soul just flew away” 
2_Sue Cutler “Sierra mermaid fantasy” 
3_Michelle Lopate “Whimsical Isle of Capricious” 
4_Sue Cutler “The Tsunami Year_ 
5_Michelle Lopate “Half full or half empty_” 
6_Sue Cutler The 2020 American Crisis Tsunami 
7_ Michelle Lopate “Palm, finger, textile, study” 
8_ Sue Cutler “would you like your palm read_” 
9_Michelle Lopate “Exit 2020” 
10_Sue Cutler “No exit”
Annie Stromquist and Amy Uyeki
1 Amy Uyeki. We Did This 
2 Annie Stromquist. Time Will Tell 
3 Amy Uyeki. Running Out 
4 Annie Stromquist. Time Warp 
5 Amy Uyeki. Day into Night into Day 
6 Annie Stromquist. Untitled 
7 Amy Uyeki. One Gold Finch 
8 Annie Stromquist. Uplifted 
9 Amy Uyeki. Free Fall 
10 Annie Stromquist. Safe
Ashley Hester and Darren McManus
1_Ashley_Hester 
2-Darren_McManus_PYROCATHARSIS-1 
3 Ashley_Hester 
4-Darren_McManus_PYROCATHARSIS-2 
5 Ashley_Hester 
6-Darren_McManus_PYROCATHARSIS-3 
7 Ashley_Hester 
8-Darren_McManus_PYROCATHARSIS-4 
9 Ashley_Hester 
10-Darren_McManus_PYROCATHARSIS-5
Susan Karhroody and Deborah Reilly
Denise Fontaine Pincince and Kayla Cloonan
1_DeniseFontainePincince_AfterAll 
2_KaylaCloonan_AfterAllthisTime 
3_DeniseFontainePincince_Still 
4_KaylaCloonan_AmIStilltheSame 
5_DeniseFontainePincince_SomethingNew
7_DeniseFontainePincince_Can_tGoBack 
8_KaylaCloonan_YouWillNeverbeYoungerthanYouAreNow 
9_DeniseFontainePincince_RightNow 
10_KaylaCloonan_IsthatMeintheMirror_ 
11_DeniseFontainePincince_TheWomenIAm 
12_KaylaCloonan_VandalizedSelfies(AllofWhoIWas)
Martin Cox and Lyla Paakkanen
1 Martin_Cox 
2 Lyla_Paakkanen 
3 Martin_Cox 
4 Lyla_Paakkanen 
5 Martin_Cox 
6 Lyla_Paakkanen 
7 Martin_Cox 
8 Lyla_Paakkanen 
9 Martin_Cox 
10 Lyla_Paakkanen 
11 Martin_Cox 
12 Lyla_Paakkanen
Brenda Oelbaum and SKY Palkowitz
2 SKY Palkowitz. PICASSO’S PIPE 
2.5 SKY Palkowitz. PICASSO’S PIPE in blacklight
4 SKY Palkowitz. ALIEN WITH HAT 
4.5 SKY Palkowitz. ALIEN WITH HAT in blacklight
6 SKY Palkowitz. ALIEN BALLOON HEADS 
6.5 SKY Palkowitz. ALIEN BALLOON HEADS in blacklight 
7.Brenda Oelbaum Aliens Amongst Us 
8 SKY Palkowitz. AMONG 
8.5 SKY Palkowitz. AMONG in blacklight
10 SKY Palkowitz. ALIEN HAND 
10.5 SKY Palkowitz. ALIEN HAND in blacklight
12 SKY Palkowitz. SEA ME 
12.5 SKY Palkowitz. SEA ME in blacklight
Marta Feinstein and Maureen Vastardis
Adrienne Cole and ‘Mizz Conchi’ Sanford
Galina Kovshiovsky and Michele Mekel
Elena Viktorovna Stromberger and Joanne Le Cocq
