Art-Inspired Poetry Events…
“Poetry of Hands”, by Ana Vaturi
EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC:
Gallery Exhibit & Poetry Readings featuring visual artworks by ASiF Resident Artists
and poetry by Local & Regional Poets!
Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art Inspired Poetry - Featured in THREE -
Open to the public events:
1. Opening Reception - March 31
2. Poetry Event - April 20
3. Closing Reception - Thurs, May 4, 5 - 7pm
On Thursday, May 4th from 5 - 7pm ASiF will host the closing reception for Ekphrastic Fantastic - featuring a discussion, book signing and readings by Iranian born poet Rooja Mohassessy, Author of, When your Sky Runs into Mine, winner of the 2022 Annual Elixir Poetry Prize!
On Thursday, April 20th, from 5 - 7pm, ASiF hosted “Ekprhastic Fantastic” Art-Inspired Poetry during its 3rd Thursday Open Studio Night. The event will feature art and poetry with readings by Eugene Berson, Catharine Bramkamp, Liz Collins, Susan Michalski, and Ellen Reynard. Our resident artists will be working in their studios and doing demo’s. Poetry readings will begin at 6pm. This event is free and open to the public!
“Alpenglow”, by Eric Bevel
On Friday, March 31st , from 5-8pm, the Artists' Studio in the Foothills (ASiF) Art Center hosted the opening reception for their inaugural “Ekphrastic Fantastic” Art-Inspired Poetry event. Ekphrastic poetry is poetry inspired by art. The most famous example of ekphrastic poetry is a work entitled “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, an English poet of the early 1800's.
For this event, local poets were invited to write poems inspired by art created by the resident artists at ASiF Studios. The works of fifteen artists and seventeen poets will be displayed side by side in the center's gallery.
Figurative Ceramics by Amanda Paoletti
At the opening reception, guests are invited to a presentation of ekphrastic poetry readings by the poets, while viewing the works which inspired them. Published works by the poets are available for sale and signing.
This event was a collaboration between ASiF Art Center and the Nevada County Arts Council, and is an official event of the Sierra Poetry Festival. Its mission is to create an annual event that brings together - to celebrate and cross pollinate - two distinct and thriving communities of local visual artists and poets.
Participating poets are Gene Berson, Catharine Bramkamp, Kirsten Casey, Katie Chilton, Liz Collins, Molly Fisk, Betty Naegele Gundred, Maxima Kahn, Iven Lourie, Donna Meares, Susan Michalski, Judie Rae, Ellen Reynard, Susan Solinsky, Julie Valin, Robin Wallace and George Young.
Participating artists are Eric Bevel, Roseanne Burke, Andrea Cateregli, Barbara Harris, Claudia Jeffers, Michelle Jewett, Karin Lawler, Susan Michalski, Amanda Paoletti, Grace Pieper, Stephanie Schriver, Ana Vaturi, Robin Wallace, and Kathryn Wronski.
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."
