Elmira College students enrolled in Professor Jan Kather's honors seminar sessions met to discuss the interconnections between painting and photography by reading about and discussing global visionaries and their artworks as presented in Aperture Issue No. 258, Photography and Painting 2025. Additionally, students visited the Postal Collage Project 14 Exhibition on view in Elmira College's George Waters Gallery, creating their own ekphrastic poetry. This publication offers a sampling of their creative responses to class activities..