Artwork that is aspirational, dreamlike, imagination, expansive. Visuals that can be the adversary to the overwhelm of recent modern life. While being grateful for what we have, our families and friends, sense of emotional attachment, some sense of humor is often needed.

Hope is an incredibly powerful thing.

Media Arts Council and artist/curator Maryanne Buschini have invited selected artists to submit works of visual art that reflect their individual ideas on the theme of HOPE.

For each work, The artists have included a short paragraph/story that explains how the work depicts the artists' definition of hope. The exhibition will bring together artists and their artwork that hopes to uplift the viewer.

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Alan Lankin

Beth Richey

Edna Santiago

Gary Grissom

Jeanine Pennell

Marie Bender

Mikel Elam

Miriam Marshall

Rosalind Bloom

Sandy Lovitz

Sandy Malamed

William Timmins

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Emily Dickinson

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

Anne Lamott

“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away.
All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”

Rumi

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

“PRAYING” BY MARY OLIVER

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

“The Peace of Wild Things” - Wendell Berry

The world is violent and mercurial, it will have its way with you.
We are saved only by love - love for each other and the love that
we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent;
being a writer; a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building,
and what we must save from it, all the time, is love ".

Tennessee Williams.

"The only weapon we have is comedy"

Robin Williams

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MAC Art Show: Hope