Welcoming all Dreamers . . .
ARTISTS —supporting— ARTISTS
Our mission is to encourage respect for all people and promote peace through the arts. We believe that everyone has a masterpiece inside.
CREATION FAIRE
The RED QUEEN rises | the BLUE THRONE descends with GOLD — Very ODD
Musings Trois
Check out our DEVELOPING SPOTIFY Playlists!
COMING 2025 . . .
. . . DECENNALIA +I
Do you feel you belong in a “DIFFERENT KIND OF UNIVERSE?” — If you do and you feel you might be open to joining our Team, check out some areas we need help with at . . . IT’S SO ZO!
ZO is building a community of artistic collaborators.
Check out info on our Sponsor|Curators page to connect with our growing global arts community and help us discover and expose art from your favorite city.
2024—2025 10th Anniversary Decennalia EXPO!
The word Decennalia is Latin for “10th Anniversary” and refers to festivals of games in Ancient Rome, which occurred every ten years. ZO was particularly intrigued by the festivals’ origin, which dates back to 27 BC when the Roman Emperor Augustus “refused the supreme power offered to him for life and would only consent to accept power for ten years,” as noted by Wikipedia. During the festival, Augustus would “surrender all of his authority to the hands of the people, who were filled with joy and charmed by the gesture.”
In a world where power is so often idolized and misused, it is rare and inspiring to find those who refuse its seduction. Those who are willing to use their influence to empower others. Augustus is known for restoring peace and prosperity to Rome.
HELP US CELEBRATE AND ENTER OUR NEW CREATIVE EXPOS!
FREE FIRST ENTRY — “Courtesy of ARTITUDE” — Publishing and thoughtful Honorarium for Winners!
COVER ART
SUBMISSION & INFO
Design a ZO COVER to win awards and publishing to our global audience in 170 Countries
POETRY
SUBMISSION & INFO
Write a POEM – with the theme: Ten (10) Years! Move us to think, feel & imagine deeply!
LITERATURE
SUBMISSION & INFO
Write a Flash Fiction piece detailing your idea of a “World at Peace” to win! Show us your brilliance . . .
SPONSORED BILLBOARD
UNIVERSAL ARTS CONSORTIUM
Our simple mission
Peace Through The Arts and World Respect
FEATURED WRITERS
FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM THE MULTI-VERSE
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Articles
The Arts | Fiction Portal
Catie Jarvis
Kendra Writes Stuff . . .
Kendra Beltran
Artistic Allegory | Le Mot Juste
Tricia Stewart Shiu
CITY CURATORS
FOR FULL LIST CLICK LINK ABOVE
OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY IS A NETWORK OF ARTISTS, BUSINESSES AND CREATIVE ADVOCATES WHO ARE CO-MARKETING THROUGH CITY SPONSORSHIP TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND REACH A LARGER AUDIENCE.
THIS NETWORK IS CHANGING THE WORLD. CONSIDER CONNECTING AND DEFINITELY CHECK OUT THE FANTASTIC ARTISTS, CREATIVES AND ENTERPRISES THAT MAKE UP OUR GROWING ZO-NEXTIONS!
If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw
ZO COMMUNITY
Let Your Art Run Deeper
THOUGHTS FROM THE FICTION PORTAL
Click Here for: BLUE EXPO WINNERS!
The BLUE EXPO was ZO’s last Creative Expo with 35 Winners. We are now in preparation for our next Expo which will be connected to The O.D.D. Room film project— as always, a Million Thanks to ARTITUDE for helping us keep everyone’s first entry free and to continue to make over $5000 in award honorariums . . .
Link here to: ARTISTS by TIME ZONE & COUNTRY
The Creative FUSION between all of the arts, artists, cultures, styles, and people of this world tremendously excites us! You’ll find music on all of our pages, and we generally lean toward contemplative instrumentals for the main ZO pages. Check out the eclectic mix of indie jams, coffee-house, and everything from steam-metal to nouveau-bluegrass, throughout our interviews, on all of the Sponsor|Curator pages, and on our New SPOTIFY Playlists.
For more info on ARTISTS — MUSICIANS — POETS — PHOTOGRAPHERS — check out the links! Also check out ZO CREATIVE for a more comprehensive list.
ZO has 4 Creative ZOnes for: ART, MUSIC, PHOTO & POETRY. Check out artists we feature in each of those disciplines. We have highlighted hundreds of artists and would like to keep up to date on each of them as our community continues to develop. We are gradually reaching out to all of the Artists we’ve featured, but if we haven’t gotten to you yet, please connect with us there and keep us updated on what you’re up to. ZO updates on each of these pages, on the Welcome page and also updates tours, schedules, and stories on our Global Instagram page @zoartsglobal.
Our magazine has creative connections in over 170 countries and has highlighted, interviewed, and featured over 2500 multidisciplinary artists since the inception of our website. In order to better organize our international connections, we are launching a global companion site. The websites are interconnected for ease of navigation. Check out zoartsglobal.com – which is still transitioning and contact us at zouniversal@yahoo.com if you can’t find something you formerly read or contributed to.
“Armor Bearing Intern” — Richard Zeier Genre: Rock Instrumentals.
CONNECT!
WHEN YOU DO CONNECT
PLEASE LEAVE INFO ABOUT YOUR CREATIVE DISCIPLINE OR PASSION . . .
There is a new energy everywhere, and ZO’s aim is to join with the already vibrant international creative community and allow the naturally-occurring transformation found in abstract connections to organically grow. Over the years, we have connected with a highly diverse range of multidisciplinary artists and it is the synergy of that distinctive abstractness that seems to be fueling and directing our path. Planning new and experimental collaborative projects among artists is our life blood and we’re honored to keep providing a space that has no pre-defined “walls.”
Creative brainstorming is our team’s current prime directive and we are excited about taking a few new directions.
Our upcoming creative expo includes “Games” for the first time. The O.D.D. Room theme is from our developing film and meant to engage all who enter to Think Deep and look for silver linings in the uncertainties surrounding the world at this cataclysmic time. The Expo is to support artists by awarding those who stand out with cash and cool swag. We are always hopeful that the challenging world events that face us will make us think and give us all (and the Earth) a fresh start with new ideas for a better world.
Also underway, is the Time ZOne Spoken World Event that we’ve been talking about for years! Working from UTC Time ZOnes, we’ve put together a very unique presentation that will take place globally and feature the hundreds of artists, musicians, spoken word poets, and other creative disciplines we’ve shared. Info is developing at Time ZOne.
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““What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.” – Marcel Duchamp
Monthly Themes
Check it out in our Imaginarium
ART FEATURES
ZO Creative is constantly updating as we experiment; and we are inspired by the many artists that have allowed us to feature and pair their work with music, film, poetry and other media.
• Cassandra Tondro
• Duane Kirby Jensen
• Emily Scott
• Fantommst | Lisa Ridings
• Frédéric Belaubre
• Gerald Ivey
• Jaeda Dewalt
• John W. Davis IV
• John Wilhelm
• Jonathan Scott Paulson
• Lizzie Sharp
• Marion Costentin
• Olusegun Adejumo
• Paul Louise-Julie
• Richard J. Frost
• Sasza Baristow
• Sława Kładoczna-Gryta
• Theresa Durant
• Thierry Baptiste | Lenny White
• Tiffanie Mang
• Vinn Wong
Original art brightens all of our lives
Slides Open to Artists Pages
We have poetry on 4 main pages and links to all of our poetry can be found on the POETRY ZONE page. Check out the pages below and if you happen to know of a poetry establishment in your city or town, please consider asking them to sponsor your city so that we can link to their establishment.
THINK DEEP
“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is set.” ~ H.H.The Dalai Lama
Collectively, we are not affiliated with any political, religious, racial, cultural or social movement. Define us as creative thinkers . . . artists . . . We are ZO | Zone Other | Zone Obscura | Zone Organic
CREATIVE EXPOS
Creative Expos are one of the prime ways ZO connects with world talents. All of our Expos are open to everyone from anywhere in the world. Submissions to Expos are online only. We are always blown away by the talent that comes in and post the winners and a top percentage of entries. We’ve orchestrated Expos exclusively for teens from 13 to 19 for several years, and their artistry is so absolutely incredible and competitive that we’ve set the entry age for all Expos to 13.
Each year, we change up a bit to keep the creative juices flowing with everyone. Our next EXPO is really unique and will be linked to our film “The O.D.D. ROOM.” It will include creative submissions in Art, Photography & Poetry — in addition to Creative Games. This is the 10th Anniversary for publishing ZO, and we will also hold a COVER & LITERATURE EXPO that will run through 2024. Check out the Expo details at the links.
“ZONE OTHER” | OTHER DIMENSIONAL DISCUSSION LITERARY FORUM and ART MOVEMENT
We are HONORED by the generous souls that contribute to this publication, allowing us to share their talents, brilliance and creative gifts — and THANKFUL for what truly does work in the world — allowing us this digital forum to reach out. Certainly, there are many problems everywhere; but we appreciate the corporate geniuses, innovators and all men and women that have put together incredible organizations that both benefit and further our societies. Although ZO is very aware of the nature of business — we do not want to build primarily for profit — and our purpose is not solely to make money or achieve fame and notoriety. We are primarily peacemakers and our mission is to bring diverse people together through art and, hopefully, promote more of that.
Thoughts on global etiquette for the New World
There’s a NEW WORLD COMING through the Creative Arts.
If you’ve come to this page — you are part of making it happen!
ZO MAGAZINE
Publisher — ZO International LLC