A tapestry has many different colored threads, textiles and textures that are woven together to make a beautiful, cohesive and inclusive work of art and community. Tapestry making, now a lost art, served as a concrete art-form, and a metaphor for how families and communities told stories about their lives and connections. Our communities are struggling to find ways to reach and touch young people and the events that are tearing at the fabric of their futures. Tapestries is a creative, and inclusive facilitation guide and offers exploratory support for advocates and centers that must begin to...

haikuetry: modern haiku meanders through the minimalistic poetry form of haiku and senryu. It carefully and thoughtfully presents daily life in a poetic manifesto that will make you laugh, cry, snicker and reminisce. Somewhere within the pages of haikuetry: modern haiku, you will find parts of yourself, then be inspired.

Teachers, TeachHER is an introduction of a carefully chosen selection of many amazing Black, women visual artists. Take a self exploratory journey through the artwork of some artists you may know and many you do not. This workbook journal is a great resource for teachers, students, artists and art appreciators.

A QUIET VISIONARY... I am a free spirited, creative person who is passionate about art in all forms. I attended the N.C. School of the Arts for high school in visual arts, earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MAT from Kennesaw State University in art education. After a brief stint teaching art in Peace Corps, Ghana, I returned to the states and had several careers in product design, art instruction, costume design, quilting and fashion design and education. I am mompreneur of five wonderful sons ages 7-15. my daily joy comes from creating new artwork, writing poetry,...

"It was African American essayist James Baldwin who once famously opined that "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." Bermuda-born, Atlanta-based, performance artist, thespian, director and poet, Tamicka Johnson, takes Baldwin's words to heart in her first book of poetry, the creatively titled dee-kuhn-struhk-shuhn]of an Anomaly. Subject-wise, Johnson casts her net wide. Her musings illuminate the many challenges associated with how every one of us must, at some point in our sojourn through this life, grapple with the niggling universals...