Lauren D. Armour

“Delight In Your Difference!” 

Lauren D. Armour, aka Soulful Ambitions, raised on the south side of Chicago, who sets out to simply Speak Up and Speak Out as a voice for the voiceless. She is poetically inclined to express the deepest matters of the heart, that many find difficult to address. She possesses an ability to Reignite the wounded heart and make people feel human again. She enlightens, mold and awaken the mind’s of those with ears to hear without taking away from one’s character. She, also, is a writer and actress and has appeared on Windy City Live for Domestic Violence awareness 2019, Hosted a NPO week at Robert Morris University with special guests from PAVE, and Tiffany Ray Survivor of human trafficking. She has appeared in the annual stage play "Survivors Monologue" by Cassandra Bell Productions and in Gosnell: the trial of America's biggest serial killer movie and several other projects. 

Ultimately, She aspires to break the bondage of ignorance and cause the people to recognize themselves in learning to "Delight in Their Difference". Her eloquence of expression moves those willing to listen, elevating hearers of all backgrounds, to a new level of understanding, activating and what’s dormant within. Restoring the will to get up a move despite the obstacles that lie ahead. 

The Rockabilly Rebels Club

“What Were You Wearing”

Rebels with a cause! Our mission is to provide educational, leadership, and responsible stewardship of philanthropic resources. Enhance the quality of life for people across the United States with a flare of vintage ol’ school style. We are a certified non-profit community service group based out of Lawton, Oklahoma, but several members spread across the U.S. Most of our members are affiliated with the military therefore we support our veterans, service members, and wounded warriors.

Starting November of 2019, we have been diligently working on a project to bring forth a meaningful collaboration with PAVE. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we want to show you the hard work we have been putting in even through this crisis of a pandemic. We want to empower survivors of sexual and domestic violence to speak out.

While working on this project, our club members allowed for their vulnerabilities to shine through. Each photo session was therapeutic and allowed us further healing within our personal journeys. While our photographers worked, we allowed ourselves to share our story of sexual assault. Some of our members shared for the very first time. The re-creation was not to depict that these vintage celebrities were victims themselves (although a possibility) but to show how the vintage community has inspired us to shatter the silence. The symbolism within our photos depict the fact that it doesn’t matter what anyone is wearing (clothed pic) or isn’t wearing(under a sheet). The clothes we wear or do not wear does not dictate and mean consent. It is not an invitation.

Speaking out is imperative to the paradigm shift we need within our society for survivors to be heard and believed but healing within our communities is of the most important.

Christine Duell

“One Bad Night Amongst Many Great Ones…”

Christine Duell is shattering the silence to help encourage other women to take action, seek immediate help, and to highlight the need for sexual assault education in schools and colleges. Writing has become apart of her healing journey as she rebuilds her new life. 

Read Christine’s powerful article “One Bad Night Amongst Many Great Ones…”

Barbara Bowman

Barbara Bowman has been in the arts since childhood.  In the beginning she considered architecture as a career, then urban development and eventually worked in the corporate world designing and marketing new product lines for international retail promotions. She later became a lead designer for a glass company which designed and sold logoed souvenir glassware to major food and beverage departments for cruise ships, hotels, resorts and casinos world-wide. The numbers kept her in the game, but that did not fulfill her calling.

And though Bowman has extensive experience in many forms, she claims a dual career for many years. Bowman also to be credited for a sustained and successful television and film career since her early teens, working on international film and T.V. sets. The actress turned artist says, “Before art became what is now my life, my passion for painting kept nagging at me. I’ve always been an artist. You just needed to know where to find me.” Now, mostly retired from the entertainment world, she has spanned her professional world of art through drawing, creating commissioned custom murals for public and private clients, and currently, mostly known for her Abstract Expressionism works which have been described as, “Colors that fly off the wall!”

Felicia “Fe” Schoenjohn

Coming Soon!

Michael Ellis

“The Body Remembers”

Michael Ellis is a multimedia artist whose practice includes sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and digital art. His expressionistic work deals with memory, trauma, and their effects on the construction of identity.

Ellis has shown his work throughout central and northern New Mexico. Selected venues include The Orpheum Community Hub, fourteenfifteen gallery, William Platz Gallery, the Jean Cocteau Theater gallery, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Ellis has taught a variety of art theory and studio courses. He has taught workshops and courses at the Remarque/ New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery, Manzano Day School, Albuquerque Public Schools and the Bernalillo Public Library system. He has been a core faculty member at the Southwest University of Visual Arts in Albuquerque, NM. He has taught art, English and theatre in Albuquerque middle and high schools.

Michael Ellis is also a working illustrator, comic artist and graphic designer. He has illustrated and designed for clients internationally and throughout the United States. As a contributor to the 27 Club Anthology from Red Stylo/ Action Lab Comics, he was nominated for a Harvey Award in 2015. His comic Cletus the Defeatist was voted Best Local Comic in the Weekly Alibi’s Best of Burque awards in 2015.