Community Art

AEI has a thriving community of artists who create original artwork across a variety of mediums.

Browse our online gallery to explore their work, then visit our Events page to discover upcoming opportunities to meet our artists in person and experience even more of their creations.

The Muse Urania

The Muse Urania

Grecian, green and gold mask. The goddess Urania fills our poetry with Heavenly knowledge, divination and ethereal mystique through her command of universal powers.

Cats — A Tribute to T.S. Eliot

Cats — A Tribute to T.S. Eliot

A white mask with gray cats, copper whiskers wisping out of miniature copper roses, with a white spindle handle. It is up to you to decide which cat is Prufrock.

Tribute to Robert Frost

Tribute to Robert Frost

White with shades of icy blue, this mask evokes contemplations of walking down a winter path.

Breaking a Writer’s Block

Breaking a Writer’s Block

Pale gold mask with scrabble pieces and red highlights. This mask portrays the moment when letters suddenly come together into words and thoughts begin to form for your writing.

Passion Flame #8-04

Passion Flame #8-04

J. H. Cheung

Digital art with a fiery image of a dancer on top of a passion flower blossom. "Fire lies within each of us / Use the flame to dance and sing / Use the flame to shout to the world / And let all people know / You are celebrating"

The Dragon Comes Out of the Sea #1-04

The Dragon Comes Out of the Sea #1-04

J. H. Cheung

A composite Chinese parade dragon coming out of the sea at Sonoma Coast State Park, California. "Water is blood of the dragon / To placate the dragon / we must live in harmony / with nature and ourselves"

Floating #11-04

Floating #11-04

J. H. Cheung

A photograph of jellyfish taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. "Especially when floating in a void, / One should understand the difference / Between being alone / and loneliness"

Receeding Storm #14-04

Receeding Storm #14-04

J. H. Cheung

Storm clouds at the beach at Asilomar, California. "Yin Yang, each ending is a beginning, / each beginning is an ending. / Everything holds the seeds of its opposite within."

Moon and Stars

Moon and Stars

5 inch single bell tambourine. Shades of blue.

Purple Radiance

Purple Radiance

12 inch Egyptian tambourine (riq) with mother-of-pearl inlays and double brass bells. Shades of lavender, purple and gold. Inset shows inlaid mother-of-pearl on the inside and outside of the rim.

Red Spiral

Red Spiral

8 inch single bell tambourine. Shades of red with gold.