LOVE

has a new definition

having nothing to do with familial ties,

blood relationships,

sexual contact, expectations (games),

"a lay".

Now, finally, it is

(as it should always have been.

freely given:

"

POETRY

respect,

concern,

appreciation,

curiosity,

sharing.

Keen awareness of··

smiles,

pain,

eyes.

Love's meaning

learned

by knowing

and growing

with women

}

S

Island Spring trained parataxis

of unripe fruit.

White corner in the distance. A ship sallies in.

Ashore

the sailors sing

"We are each different and young"

The sailors are asleep. Dancer.

Gold bangles

and brown that shines

on limbs.

Her mag-nificent

bone bowl

rolls and tips

spilling sweetness

on all the fruit

and the blue leaves

in the ocean.

Sue Klein

A

Saltwater, Rainwater

A drop of water

shivered in the broken saucer

under your eye.

colder in that blue dip

than inside the ducts?

What was your plumbing up to.

I wanted to see a leak.

You assured me they weren't tears.

"When I came up the steps", you said, "The trees shook off and the gutter dripped."

Month

Meredith Holmes

Of

reprinted from NOVA Newsletter 12/74 (New Organization for the Visual Arts)

The Women's invitational, to be held at NOVA from January 12 through February 15, 1975, promises to be an exciting event. A group of Cleveland women artists have been working since June on the show and have planned a month of events celebrating women in the arts.

An exhibition of women's art in Cleveland is particularly relevant during this time of breakthrough for women in art, when outworn stereotypes of masculinity and femininity are being shed. Cleveland women artists are aware of developments and progress in the women's art movement across the country

LUCY

page 4 What She Wants/ January 1975

i am becoming

and that becoming is exciting

but i know the joy

painful grey

unsure

that comes with discovering something new about myself

and even if it may hurt for a moment it is sunlight

it is real

i see me

Women's

sue holton

Art

and feel that now is the time to experience the breakthrough here in Cleveland.

The show is invitational; rather than jury individual pieces, a selection committee has invited nine women artists and craftswomen out of about 300 applicants from Northeast Ohio.

The women's group wanted to give outstanding women artists an opportunity to make a statement about their work, and this, it was felt, could only be accomplished by presenting a body of screened slides and also visited studios of the women invited. The invited artists are Joyce Moty, ceramics; Audrey Skuodas, painting; Barbara Cooper, fibers; Athena Tacha, sculpture; Jane Neet, sculpture; April Gornik, drawings; Rose Ann Sassano, painting and sculpture; Bea Mitchell, structural drawings; and Sandra Humberson, fibers.

WINTER

1 dream I still follow you

down a long dirt lane,

putting my name on the list for an appointment,

calling my mother in my sleep..

I hear those old, sad orchestras -

your smell masked by perfume:

I must cut with garden shears,

breaking the hard green fibers of the forsythia

so the yellow flowers will come after the snow.

sandra love

TH

The show was planned to coincide with the Louise Nevelson exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. To broaden the scope of the show, two contemporary American women artists have been invited to give informal dialogues. Alice Neel, the well known East Coast realist painter, and Joyce Moty, artist-in-residence at Cleveland Institute of Art, will speak on their lives as women artists.

A calendar of events surrounding the show has been planned to give women in other arts an opportunity to perform.

Jan. 12 Women's Invitational opens, 2-5 pm Jan. 22 Alice Neel, 8-9 pm

Jan. 26

Feb. 2

9-10 pm

Womanhouse film presentation, Joyce Moty, 2-5 pm Experimental Dance performance, 2-5 pm Feb. 9 Big Mama Poetry Co., 2-5 pm

All events will take place at NOVA, 1240 Huron Road, Cleveland.