MANIFEST (zine) #7: Water

The water and its shoreline has been home to all of the creative people you are about to meet in the Spring 2022 issue of MANIFEST [zine]. The theme – Water – was inspired by the release of my book Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story, and is a collaborative effort featuring work by friends and fellow creative spirits: Tara Buckley / Joy Bush / Jimine Camille Anne Coffey / Juliana Harris / Rhonda Longo Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely / Kristin Merrill Mary O’Connor / Laurel Valli Read more about all of the contributors here. This issue includes a full color, 24-page booklet, inserts, and a curated, collaborative Spotify playlist.

INGREDIENTS: acrylic paints, collage, color copies, color scans, cut paper, driftwood, freshwater pearl, gold leaf, gold wire, haiku, hand-drawn fonts, handmade paper, illustrations, love, memory, paints, photography, poetry, ribbon, rubber stamp art, sea glass, Swarovski crystals, and vintage photos. With special thanks to the contributors above, as well as illustrator Anthony Browne, rubber stamp creator Esther Elzinga, Water Babies illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, Virginia Woolfith and a prayer and godspeed to Ukrainian artist Arsen Savadoc.

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Speaking of Artists…

Don’t Miss BIGGER ON THE INSIDE on view at Guilford Art Center

BIGGER ON THE INSIDE is a salon-style exhibit by Sarah Zar, on view at Guilford Art Center through April. If you haven't seen it yet, Sarah’s paintings are filled with bizarre figures, interacting or inhabiting solitary scenes with other unnatural presences, absences, and transpositions. She paints on old book pages and found remnants, preferring the polished texture of things with lost histories. In any medium — painted or three-dimensional — Sarah’s works are often figurative and a bit fabulist. She thinks of her objects as love letters to the unconscious minds of strangers. Click here for more about the exhibit, and be sure to make time to stop by Guilford Art Center!

An ETSY Bestseller! Thank you!

I am more than touched by the outpouring of support and kind praise for WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE. So many of you have written to say how much you related to the characters and the story. Thank you for bearing witness and for sharing your own stories. WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY by Jennifer A. Payne Memoir / Creative Non-Fiction 5 x 7, Paperback, 130 pages $16.00 (plus tax + shipping) BUY NOW

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