Over the course of a week in early February of 2015, 30+ songwriters huddled up in the warm confines of The Holiday Music Motel in Sturgeon Bay, WI to take inspiration from local visual artists in a one-of-a-kind pairing of image and song. The participants played a nightly game of spin-the-bottle to randomly select groups of 3 writers and one visual work to provide the muse for a new collaboratively written song. Below is the artwork that was used during that magical week. Songs inspired by these works appears on 'Love On Holiday: Songs of Love and Love Gone Away Vol. 4' (released in February 2016)
Dawn Patel painted door, "She Shed a Tear. She Grew a Wing."
Jeremy Popelka, "Thaw"
Joe Kaftan, "The Snorkler"
Kelly Avenson Photography
Lori Wier, "Neotia Ruth Marian Davis"
Stephanie Trenchard, "Force of Nature"
Ty Helbach Photography
Kelly Avenson Photography
Stephanie Trenchard, "Waiting For the Second Line"
Kirsten Logerquist, "Bessie, a Wisconsin Love Story".
Angela Lensch, "Lady In Red"
Debbra MacDonald
John Hadley