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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Poet
Yellow Flag Press in conjunction with the third annual Vision/Verse exhibit has chosen one of my poems for broadside publication and display. I'm humbled and excited.
The Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana is pleased to announce the opening of this year’s Vision/Verse exhibit at the Art Associates Gallery located at the Central School Arts and Humanities Center. The opening will be on Saturday, June 5th, at 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a poetry reading at 7 p.m. The annual art and poetry exhibit brings together twenty artists and poets from across the state as well as the nation. The purpose of the exhibit is for artists and poets alike to examine to role of inspiration in the visual and literary arts.
In November of last year, the members of Yellow Flag Press, the local independent press behind Vision/Verse, accepted well over a hundred art and poetry submissions from across the nation for the show’s second installation.
“The exhibit acts as a way for artists and poets to further explore their own creation processes by using a completely different artistic medium as the source of inspiration for a new piece of poetry or art,” said Erica McCreedy, a member of Yellow Flag Press. “We want the participating artists and poets to experience first-hand the impact that visual art has on poetry and the influence that poetry has over art.”
The ten selected poets each chose one of the ten chosen artist’s pieces and created a new poem using the piece of art as inspiration. Simultaneously, each artist chose one of the poet’s poems and used that poem as a springboard for a new piece of art.
Yellow Flag Press will print all twenty poems as broadsides, which are collectible and handmade prints of poetry, and the broadsides will hang with the twenty pieces of art at the Art Associates Gallery. At the opening, the participating poets will give a reading of the exhibit’s poetry at 7 p.m. Yellow Flag Press will be on hand to sell limited edition broadsides of each featured poem.
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Congratulations! This is wonderful news. Can you share more details?? Which poem and where / when will it be published. Very well done.
The Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana is pleased to announce the opening of this year’s Vision/Verse exhibit at the Art Associates Gallery located at the Central School Arts and Humanities Center. The opening will be on Saturday, June 5th, at 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a poetry reading at 7 p.m. The annual art and poetry exhibit brings together twenty artists and poets from across the state as well as the nation. The purpose of the exhibit is for artists and poets alike to examine to role of inspiration in the visual and literary arts.
In November of last year, the members of Yellow Flag Press, the local independent press behind Vision/Verse, accepted well over a hundred art and poetry submissions from across the nation for the show’s second installation.
“The exhibit acts as a way for artists and poets to further explore their own creation processes by using a completely different artistic medium as the source of inspiration for a new piece of poetry or art,” said Erica McCreedy, a member of Yellow Flag Press. “We want the participating artists and poets to experience first-hand the impact that visual art has on poetry and the influence that poetry has over art.”
The ten selected poets each chose one of the ten chosen artist’s pieces and created a new poem using the piece of art as inspiration. Simultaneously, each artist chose one of the poet’s poems and used that poem as a springboard for a new piece of art.
Yellow Flag Press will print all twenty poems as broadsides, which are collectible and handmade prints of poetry, and the broadsides will hang with the twenty pieces of art at the Art Associates Gallery. At the opening, the participating poets will give a reading of the exhibit’s poetry at 7 p.m. Yellow Flag Press will be on hand to sell limited edition broadsides of each featured poem.
Thanks Jenni. :-)
That is very cool. I love the idea of your poem inspiring art and visa versa.
Me too. Kinda ironic in that I started writing again because of fractals. Without those images, I never pick up pen.
Congratulatons!
Thanks Morrow. :-)
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