The Color Red; from the Abstract City series — 7.5” x 7.5” Digital painting on paper by Don Harvey — starting bid $225 — paired with:

The Color Red

Red is hot.
It’s like it jumps from the ground into my head.
The burning taste it makes, I hate it.
It changes me somehow.
What happens?
You can stop it if you think of white snow.

Sean H., age 9
Artemus Ward School

sunny side up — 6” x 8” Acrylic Painting by James Quarles — starting bid $25 — inspired by:

My Simile Poem

My eyes, as brown as a bear
My hair, as nappy as carpet
My smile, as big as the sun
My legs, as big as a school chair
My feet, as sore as a sleeping arm

Lovelle N., 5th Grade
Wade Park School

Down To The Corner — 12.5” x 15” Gouache on Paper by Timothy Callaghan — starting bid $300 — inspired by:

The Community

My community seems lost like a book with no title.
The streets ain’t good for nothing else but holding a rifle.
We got murders every day.
Children lost like a stray.
So many bad things on the news, seems like it is a play.
You got to look behind your back and watch what you say.
A lot of people ain’t smart and some act a fool.
It seems the only choice you have is to stay in school.
See my neighborhood ain’t nothing and nothing is better.
East side covers Cleveland up like it’s wearing a sweater.

Norton B., age 13
John W. Raper School

Haiku — 36” x 36” Handpainted Silk by Susan Skove — starting bid $125 — inspired by:

Haiku

I am in the grass.
I am light like a flower.
I sting like a bee.

Shamar M., 3rd grade
Wade Park School

Choices — 20” x 26” Acrylic & Ink Painting by Susan Parsley — starting bid $75 — inspired by:

The Community

My community seems lost like a book with no title.
The streets ain’t good for nothing else but holding a rifle.
We got murders every day.
Children lost like a stray.
So many bad things on the news, seems like it is a play.
You got to look behind your back and watch what you say.
A lot of people ain’t smart and some act a fool.
It seems the only choice you have is to stay in school.
See my neighborhood ain’t nothing and nothing is better.
East side covers Cleveland up like it’s wearing a sweater.

Norton B., age 13
John W. Raper School

Conversation Bubble — 13 1/2” x 14” x 1/4” Forged Steel by Stephen Yusko — starting bid $50 — inspired by:

Poetry

Poetry can be a song, a story, safe, simple, and sincere
It can be happy, honest, hopeful or hilarious
It can be a melody, a movement, a mirror or a mood
Poetry can be many things to many people
Like me, and you
It can fill us, it can empty us
What can’t it do?
I don’t know
Do you?

Amairani V., 5th grade
Walton School

I Am a Kitty Kat — 50” x 50” Oil Painting by Stephanie Brewer — starting bid $75 — inspired by:

I Am a Kitty Kat

I’m pretty kitty cat
I’m a silly kitty cat
I’m a princess kitty cat
I’m a queen kitty cat
I’m a famous kitty cat
I’m a kitty cat that goes to school
I’m a kitty cat that’s name is Lola
I’m an intelligent kitty cat
I’m an extravagant kitty cat
I’m a baby kitty cat
I’m a little kitty cat
I’m a kitty cat that loves to read Junie B. Jones
I’m a kitty cat that listens
So listen to me
Kitty cat

Lorealis C., age 8
Buhrer Dual-Language School

Gateway — 14.5” x 18” Heat Transfer Print by Phyllis Seltzer — starting bid $100 — paired with:

I am From

I am from the projects in New York
I am from a city named Cleveland
I am from a loving family
I am from my school and my friends
I am from almost living on the streets
I am from someone who I love
But now I am from Poetry
And now that’s me

Olivia C., age 10
Willow School

In My Eye — 12” x 16” Graphite & Charcoal Drawing by Pat Joyce — starting bid $200 — inspired by:

Untitled

In my eye
I see my beauty
I see through my soul
Inside my eye
I see a pretty little girl
Making changes in her life

Haley G., age 10
Robinson G. Jones Elementary

Stainless Studs — .75” x .25” x .25” Stainless Steel, Brass & Fine Silver by Nikki Couppee — starting bid $55 — inspired by:

Precious Stones

Nice, Cute, Beautiful, and Sweet.
They are the stones that all will meet.

My Stones is nice my stone is cute.
My Stones are pretty just like you.

Opals are precious.
Opals are my skin tone.
Opals are bright white like my smile.

Sapphires are red, blue, green.
Sapphires are wonderful.
Sapphires are cute.

An Emerald stone that is green.
An Emerald stone that is shiny.
An Emerald stone looks like a cube.
The ends of an Emerald are sharp like us two.

Rubies are bright red.
Ruby is Latin for red.
Rubies are pretty and a lot of money.

Jades
Pretty, beautiful
Shiny, green, cool,
Cute, precious, stone, sweet,
Nice…

Pearl
Pearl in the deep blue sea.
Precious pearl swim down to the bottom.
The oyster holds a treasure.

A Citrine is beautiful .
A citrine is nice if it could talk it would be kind
If it were alive.

Michael R. White Girls

Diamond Bowl — 10 1/2” X 9” Ceramics by Nicholas Froehlich — starting bid $80 — inspired by:

Recipe For A Perfect Community

First you need a bowl of houses.
Then you need two eggs full of people.
Mix the bowl of houses with the eggs full of people.
Then you will have a house with people in it.
Pour the house with people in it into a pan.
Then you will have a neighborhood,
Because people in the neighborhood make up a community.
Bake for 10 minutes in order to have a solid community.
Get some water to clean up and wash away the bad things.
Then we will have a perfect community.

Santay M., age 12
John W. Raper School

Black is… — 10” X 10” Oil Painting by Michael Greenwald — starting bid $100 — inspired by:

Black is …
 
Black is the dark
Black is a cave
Black is the computer
Black is the milk crate
Black tastes like burnt cookies
Black smells like yummy chocolate
Black sounds like bats on Halloween
Black feels like rocks beneath bare feet
Black looks like an erased chalkboard
Black makes me tired
Black is my favorite color

Natalie M., 5th Grade
Willow School