Christine Stewart
Christine Stewart, MFA is Editor-in-Chief of Del Sol Press, a developmental editor, recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Blackbird, among other literary magazines. 

Remembering (published creative nonfiction)

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Year: 2021
Details: This piece of creative nonfiction was published by North Dakota Quarterly

Thinning Hair (published short story)

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Year: 2017
Details: A short story published in Deep South Magazine

Last Sermon (published short story)

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Year: 2015
Details: A short story published in Deep South Magazine
Hasani Claxton
Hasani Claxton is an author, visual artist, and educator from St. Kitts, West Indies. His love of art began in the first grade, but he did not initially pursue an art career. He studied Business at Morehouse College (1999) and Law at Columbia University (2003). While working as an attorney in New York, he began taking evening classes at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, he decided to pursue his passion full time and enrolled in Academy of Art University in San Francisco, receiving a BFA in Illustration in 2009 and an MFA in Studio Art from Towson University in 2017.

Elaine Weiner-Reed: EVERY PAINTING IS A SONG | STORY - Ekphrastic Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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Hired to record and illustrate my intent and focus of my "Every Painting Is A Story" cross-discipline creative collaborative initiative: Video by T2PTV (Ashley Love and Bruce Nairn)

See also: Creative Collaboration - Elaine Weiner-Reed's Every Painting is a Song Initiative (https://youtu.be/N4w_rIJeX-c ); 3:57 minutes

EVERY PAINTING IS A SONG | EVERY PAINTING IS A STORY

"How do my works SOUND to you? Tell me in word, song, music... in your own true voice."

In 2016 or before, visual artist Elaine Weiner-Reed began asking and wondering: "If my paintings and sculptures were music, how would they sound to you?"

From this, her cross-discipline collaboration initiative "Every Painting is a Song" was born, and over the years musicians and writers have begun to respond, intrigued with engaging creatively across the many arts. Many videos were created based on the songs, music, and poetry inspired by these artists works. This video is an overview of Weiner-Reed's initiative and a gateway to "imagining more!"

In 2018, Elaine and her artist friend, April M Rimpo, collaborated to mount a Summer 2019 two-person art show entitled "Portraits of Life: The Art of Storytelling" which led to a magical merging of creative minds "Every Painting is a Song | Every Painting is a Story." In May-June 2019, Slayton House's Bernice Kish Gallery served as multimedia-cross-discipline exhibition and performance stage.

Visual Artists Elaine Weiner-Reed and April M Rimpo are visual storytellers, exploring relationships, life, shape, and color in different ways to honor life’s journey and individuals they meet along the way. Both artists are inspired by music and musicians in different ways as interpreted in their different styles, but their visions align and converged around the idea of creative collaboration with other artistic disciplines. Believing in the positive energy created when Artists-Inspire-Artists, they took Weiner-Reed’s “Every Painting is a Song” collaboration initiative and expanded into “Every Painting is A Song/Every Painting is a Story” incorporating writers and musicians in two collaboration events at their exhibition: “Portraits of Life – The Art of Storytelling.”

In 2021, Elaine and April collaborated again in their exhibition: Portraits of Life: Once Upon a Story. Art took flight as it found alternative reflections in poetry and music. The professional poets will be honored in separate videos throughout 2022.

Elaine Weiner-Reed: https://www.elaineweinerreed.com/

Medium: Video (artwork, poets, and artist)
Year: 2022
Details: 10:41 minutes
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