Today, we feature poet Ryan Creery and his ability to make even the most desperate and seemingly hopeless moments precious and beautiful.

Today we welcome a longtime friend of Spiderweb as our newest recipient of our ongoing monthly Songwriting Scholarship! Robert Fennell would regularly awe us with his skills and electric guitar solos in the early days of our house shows, eloquently merging calculated hardcore rhythms with catchy riffs under his solo project titled, Dyscalculia. His new project, called the fate of stars, carries a similar instrumental djent-prog-vibe.

This week’s featured artist is Ashley Enfield, a mixed media artist and designer who works mostly with ink. She has a background in sculpture, paint, fibers, and digital media with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts.

Nicole Lefteau works tirelessly on a million and one films projects while managing to write and perform poetry and prose as regularly as possible. The focus of Lefteau’s art revolves around womanhood and female sexuality and has recently shifted her creations around queerness and queer anxiety as well.

Lisa Huffaker is a phenomenal poet, a classically trained opera singer, and an abundantly creative visual artist, but she’s also a community-builder and, like us, an appreciator of anything made by hand with love.

Team Spiderweb is so thrilled to bring you our newest musical production from Shiny Sound Recording Studio, “Easy Tiger” by Denton-based creative, Naomi Kliewer! "Easy Tiger" is a magical, tender anthem to the self, and we’re terribly excited to share this song with you today.

This week’s Featured Artist is Taylor Barnes, a Fibers MFA candidate at the University of North Texas. She works with concepts dealing with identity and displacement. She’s attended several Spiderweb showcases and loved being there to support local artists, buy zines, and mingle with friends new and old.

Matthew Sallack has been involved with Spiderweb almost from the beginning; he had his first art installation, a take on the Guess Who? board game, at a show in August of 2012. In addition to displaying art at the shows, Matthew has designed many of the Spiderweb zine covers, posters, and generally provided art where art is needed.

Spiderweb Salon’s newest Songwriting Scholarship recipient, DFW-based artist Shelby Orr, seized the opportunity to try something she’s been wanting to do for a long time: record a track of Kitbashes, her rollicking and rocking musical project with co-creator, M.

During her first Spiderweb Salon set at this year’s Winter Formal, Anjelica Fraga had the crowd cheering with a timely poem for the #metoo era. We’re excited to bring you that poem, “Brown Girl,” as part of our feature series.

Today, we’re bringing you Machele Johnson’s poem, “The Warning.” Machele says, “[The poem was] born from a dark journal entry that was focusing on my bruised heart and body pains,” and certainly, the rawness of that journal entry is still present, albeit shaped into some beautifully rendered verse.

Stacy Tompkins is one of those artists who amazes you in the range of her work. We love her colored pencil sketches as well as her sculptures, strange intricate works full of found objects and crafted with all manner of materials.

This week, we are featuring our very own art editor, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. She is quite an accomplished writer and an active member of the DFW literary community. She runs an her own annual event, a collaborative project called Art & Words, at Art on the Boulevard in Fort Worth.

Adam wrote “The Apple Skinner & The Elephant” around a year and a half ago while trying to say more with less. By focusing on clarity through an economy of language, Adam paints an evocative portrait of a mistreated circus elephant.