Again, a year full of planning on the back side for the next anthology. We are doing our best with supporting the programs and the new website has been started. We simply do not have enough volunteers at this time to worry about the website updates as we are all busy in the motions of running the programs and working on the action items to get things lined up for the new anthology. It is a debate on which is needed more Day light or more hands to help. All things still on track for opening submissions for the new anthology in 2025 as planned! Congratulations to Talya Davidoff for becoming an American Citizen and being named Captain of Team USA’s Freediving Federation open water team.

We have officially started the preliminary research, fundraising campaign and technical placements to get our next anthology going. It will before the Visual Arts gals. The task is daunting as we will need submission storage, inclusive categories, and a larger number of volunteers to help sort, contact and manage the process. It is currently a three-year project with only a handful of us on the working board. Sports wise, we now have four athletes wearing the Artemis Arts sports logo. Check them out on the sports page! Lindsay Boomershine won a major title as did Maria Jose Rodriguez. In Free Diving Talya Davidoff continued her streak of setting continental records.

Hello out there!  I’m back with some reflections on a serious topic that seems to be making the rounds in the media, the feminist climate and even in my world of teaching and performing percussion:  Anxiety and depression amongst girls and the need to be everything to everyone and in doing so, trying to be…