Navigating the edge of our feelings is a complex process. Art is a channel that can help us explore emotions we experience when confronting challenging situations, heartaches, or personal growth. Embrace the power of feeling as a creative muse and delve into its boundless depth and complexity—joy, sorrow, love, fear, hope, and every sentiment that colors the human experience. We celebrate the diverse array of emotions that make us human, the emotion that brings us to the edge of our feelings. It’s an emotional journey that resonates with the heart and soul.

EMOTIONAL THRESHOLDS

Best of Show- Damaged Goods
Analinda Gonzalez
chalk pastel and colored pencil on paper
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Director's Choice- Breaks

Director's Choice- The Layers of Suppression

On a Flower of Recognized Faces

Heart Breath

Somewhat Fractured #2

Defiance

SHE DANCES TO FEED HER CHILDREN

Just Breathe
Chad Knutson
pen and ink, ink wash, marker and gel pen on velum
St. Paul, Minnesota

The Dream Is Not For You

Slay Your Dragons

Imprisoned by Conformity

Blind Man and His Flowers

The Fallen Knight of Lech Walesa Way
Kevin Callahan
acrylic on canvas
Kansas City, Missouri

Endearing
Sebastian Sandu
oil on canvas
Fennville, Michigan

Arul: "We are the Story"

Boxed In

Pamela Tells Some Details (PTSD)

Lacrymosa

Bam

Drop In

THE PAUSE

Tensions Rising

Uncle John
Diane Foley
pastel and charcoal drawing with digital collage
Palmyra, New York

You find me at last

Like Soap for the Body, So are Tears 4 the Soul

Reflections, Transitions and Boundaries

Recollection
Jena Ataras
mixed media
Portland, Oregon

Little White House
Michelle Shipka
acrylic
Clarendon Hills, Illinois

Sisters!

I Should Be Fine By Now

Howard

Escape

I am done

Sortino

Dying Gaul, after Kehinde Wiley
Paul Ransohoff
pastel pencil and charcoal on black paper
Menlo Park, California

Waiting

GC2B
Oli Williams
ballpoint pen on paper
Bowling Green, Ohio

Serenity
Michael Gordon
graphite
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cavity
Norah Stone
ceramic stoneware, epoxy, found objects
Brooklyn, New York

No Words
Gretchen Schnabel
colored pencil
Palo Cedro, California

Threshold of His Soul
Michelle A. Smith
reduction & oxidation fired ceramic vessel with cold finish
Annandale, Virginia

The Void

It’s Only Temporary

Waiting for Rain

The inner limit

Mindscapes: Trapped

Radiation Meditation Totem/While He Was Napping
Winnie van der Rijn
repurposed radiation masks, rope, zip ties, shipping straps
Cambridge, Massachusetts

ReGrowth Installation

La Gritona

Ricci
Joh Ricci
fiber-nylon thread, novelty cord, paper, magazine clips, thorns
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

grief to the mother

Healing
Brandi Mills
photography
Los Angeles, California

Anger
Marisa Andropolis
oil on canvas
Algonquin, Illinois

Marc on black

Drifting in the deep

Raquel

Emancipation

Ghost Story

The Seamstress

Clocktower
CJ Carter
ceramics, latex paint, pigment, epoxy, wood, metal, cement
Norman, Oklahoma

CryBaby

Still Kicking: The Sum of Unnumbered Mysteries

Always Alone
Stacy Bonneau
mixed media- acrylic, pencil and pastel on canvas
Double Oak, Texas

Anxiety

All of It

Rolling Boil

Don't give meaning to those symbols like the Creater did
Luan Xu
mixed media on cardboard
Providence, Rhode Island

Hush
David Grable
graphite and color pencil
Mansfield Center, Connecticut

Keeping It Together
Paula Mandel
sandblasted sheet glass, prismacolor, thread, zipper
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

Relinquishing
K.E. Downham
mixed media
South Dakota
