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"I've come to rely on Gianetta Ellis to have just the right words to bring peace to my soul after a stressful day. She writes with lithe simplicity, nimble elegance, and a graceful, giving spirit. To read her work is to be blessed."
John DeDakis
Author of Fast Track
CNN Senior Copy Editor ("The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer")
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stewARTship studios ~ Incorporating Art to Stewardship
"When you have the unique opportunity to collaborate with an artist as talented as Gianetta Ellis, your book project becomes more enjoyable and rewarding. In my experience, I found Gianetta to be truly professional, creative and able to meet deadlines. Her work is of very high quality and I could not have hoped for the final result to be any better. Gianetta’s illustrations really complemented my text, making the story “come alive” and will be a key to making my published book a success. I highly recommend that you consider hiring Gianetta Ellis for your next book project.
Stewards of Spirit touched me immediately as more than just the tale of Rachel. Gianetta's carefully constructed prologue set the stage for this reader, to see into the sonnets of Rachel. I experienced the sonnets as both beautiful and lyrical to read, and they were expressed with emotional depths, linking one to the next telling a personal story. My personal favorites exist in Volume II, "My Mothers Words" and "Unseen Glories." The epilogue is instructional, assisting me to acknowledge the greater lesson of "being" the authentic self. "Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads" is a perfect companion to bask one's thoughts into, as it reflects the personal harmony with the greater world all around us in nature, which will acknowledge your thoughts with the simplest of breezes or song of a bird at just the right moment to make you smile out loud; reminding you that you are awakening to a greater reality. Anyone sensing they are on the path to higher consciousness will find comfort in this book, and for those who are so involved in everyday, stressed to their limits, will find the knowledge within these pages, to live a more satisfying life. I will reread and adore its pages often.
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Gianetta in our first few years at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. As environmental specialists, we worked together at regional and statewide levels to implement a new quality initiative program designed to improve overall environmental conditions at satellite maintenance and storage facilities, develop training modules to educate employees, and conduct quality assurance inspections to ensure environmental compliance. Gianetta is a consummate professional with a knack for detail. Her communication skills and ability to work with individuals at all levels enable her to get results. Mark Young, District Environmental Manager, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pittsburgh
Gianetta Ellis is certainly among the top two or three, and is perhaps the best, new poet I have found in the last decade, one of those discoveries of a lifetime. Her poetry combines great beauty, word use, structure and allegory in a high energy setting that reveals incredible insight and feeling for the forces of the universe we share. It is as though God has chosen another wonderful voice to stir our awareness of why we are.
Jerry W. Engler, author of Just Folks: Earthy Tales of the Prairie Heartland, A Heartland Voice: Just Folks Two, and Highly Embellished Truth & Some Poetry: Just Folks Three.
What a joy it has been for me to have known Gianetta Ellis and to watch
the development of her multiple skills, to the point that she has emerged
as not only a highly creative illustrator but also one of the most gifted and
accomplished poets writing today. Gina’s command of the poetic language, its subtleties, its rhythms, its disciplined techniques, is one in which readers find immense pleasure and writers admire and envy. I am one such writer.
Gene Williamson, poet and Author of Guns on the Chesapeake, the Winning of America’s Independence; one in a series of books that focus on the people and places along the Chesapeake Bay.
I met Gina about 10 years ago when we were introduced by a colleague at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville where Gina was an adjunct professor, and the Director of the Northern Allegheny Project. In my role as an Assistant Professor of Humanities and English, I asked Gina to be a guest speaker for my Seminar in Composition class and together we would design an assignment for the students that would involve writing for “the real world.” I was surprised when I casually asked Gina for assignment suggestions, and she produced not just a list, but a well thought out page of topics that would have some appeal for every student.
Later, when Gina moved on to become the arts and education consultant for a local recreational park, our collaboration continued and my students took field trips to the site, and she again helped them with their research on environmental issues and their production of brochures, posters and later scripts which resulted in some very clever programming vehicles for park audiences. Her knowledge and enthusiasm were inspiring, and most of the students later said these assignments were the highlight of the course.
After I initiated a new course entitled, “Words & Images”, Gina again agreed to be a guest speaker, and generously donated Stewarts of Spirit, discussing her own process of writing, and helping students to examine the concept of authenticity in relationship to their lives. Again, students produced some very insightful papers inspired by Gina’s direction.
I have been enriched both personally and professionally by my acquaintance with Gina, and when we are not working on a school project we are sharing our own art experiences which I’m sure will continue for many years to come.
Cynthia Andes, Assistant Professor of Humanities and English
University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
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