EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC: ART-INSPIRED POETRY
“Stag at edwards crossing” acrylic on canvas by kim carlsen
Gallery Exhibit & Poetry Events featuring artworks by ASiF Resident Artists
and poetry readings by local & regional Poets! This annual event brings together two distinct and thriving communities for an always exciting collaboration!
Visit our gallery during open gallery hours: Thursdays, Friday & Saturdays, 11am - 4pm.
Join us for TWO - Open to the Public Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art-Inspired Poetry Events:
1. Opening Reception & Poetry Reading, Friday April 3
2. Second Poetry Reading Friday, April 24, 5 - 7pm
Ekphrastic poetry is poetry inspired by art!
ART-INSPIRED POETRY: ASiF's 4th Annual EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC
On Friday, April 3rd from 5-7pm, the Artists' Studio in the Foothills (ASiF) Art Center & Gallery will host the opening reception of its Fourth Annual “Ekphrastic Fantastic” Art-Inspired Poetry Event.
Each year, as tradition will have it - ASiF's annual Resident Artist Show in January - serves as inspirational fodder for the center's, also annual - Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art-Inspired Poetry Show. For this show, a curated group of local and regional poets are invited to view and select artworks to serve as subjects for their "ekphrastic" poems. Once written, the poems are printed and displayed on the center's gallery walls beside the artworks which inspired them. For this show, a second seated poetry event has been scheduled for Friday April 23rd from 5 - 7pm.
“Opening” Ceramic Sculpture by Amanda paoletti
On the evenings of April 3rd and 23rd, the public is invited for seated presentations in the center's community classroom, for which ASiF's Resident artists will be tasked as "art runners" -delivering their art to and from the stage on cue - as the poets read their ekphrastic poems. This year's show features the works of fourteen artists and twenty three poets, the works of which will be displayed side by side on the center's gallery walls. Published works by the poets will also be available for sale and signing at the readings.
Participating poets are Bennett Berardi, Gene Berson, Catharine Bramkamp, Taya Burke, Kirsten Casey, Katie Chilton, Liz Collins, Judy Crowe, Kate Dumont, Molly Fisk, Betty Naegle Gundred, Suzanne Koliche, Michael Leydon, Donna Meares, Selene Mitlyng, Diane Pendola, Judie Rae, Jennifer Smat, Susan Solinsky, Karen Terrey, Alicia Vandervorst, Robin Wallace, and Susan Warden.
Participating artists are Karen Brooks, Roseanne Burke, Kimberly Carlsen, Mariela Cunqueiro, Dori Greenbaum, Cheri Guerrette, Michelle Jewett, Peggy McDermott, Amanda Paoletti, Rose Paratore, Louise Pryor, Stephanie Schriver, Robin Wallace, and Lani H. Zila
The Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art-Inspired Poetry exhibit will be on display in the center's gallery, Friday April 3rd through Saturday, May 16th. Artworks and poems will exhibit side by side for public viewing during weekly open gallery hours, Thursdays - Saturdays from 11am - 4pm.
ASiF's annual Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art-Inspired Poetry Show is in collaboration with the Nevada County Arts Council and is an official fringe event of the Sierra Poetry Festival. The mission of this curated collaboration is to bring these two thriving Nevada County communities of visual artists and poets together to share and grow a mutually supportive audience. For more information about this and other upcoming exhibitions and events go to asifstudios.com.
This event is free and open to the public.
ek·phra·sis /ˈekfrəsəs/ - Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise,[1] often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.
Thus, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art."
