Venus: Poets and Fiber Artists Reflect
Thursday Sept 11 - Thursday Oct 30
Sat. Sept 20:
Round table conversation... 2-4pm
Reception... 5-8pm
(Music by Georganne Hunter, harp, and
Kevin Ostedahl, hammer dulcimer)
Sat. Sept 27:
Eclipsed... 7pm
Patrick Eller, Kathy McTavish, Sheila Packa
Multimedia Performance
Sat Oct 4:
Poetry Night ... 7pm
Barton Sutter, Liz Minette, Rebecca Paradis,
Connie Wanek, Cal Benson
Sat. Oct 11:
Intertwined ... 7pm
2 Writing Groups
1. Rachel Mock, Jennifer Derrick,
Tera Freese, Kyle Elden
2. Deborah Cooper, Ann Niedringhaus,
Candace Ginsberg, Anne Simpson,
Ellie Schoenfeld
Fri. Oct 17:
Signs Out of Time ... 7pm
Belili Productions documentary film
the story of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
Sat Oct 18:
Poetry Afternoon... 3pm
Louis Jenkins, Jim Johnson, Yvonne Rutford,
Bob Monahan, Richard Gruchalla
Sat Oct 18:
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace 10am -3pm
Fiber Workshop with Erika Mock
Call to register 715.392.1150
Sat Oct 25:
Closing Reception .... 5-7pm
(music by Kathy McTavish, Cello)
Exhibit coordinators Erika Mock, Ellie Schoenfeld, and Jo Wood have arranged events to foster artistic expression, invite community conversation, and raise imaginative energy in all of us. Collaboration was intentionally chosen to unleash possibilities The participants reflect the diversity of poets and fiber artists creating work in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The activities scheduled offer an opportunity for artists and the community to come together, share
thoughts, and enrich one another.
Events are free and open to the public. (workshop offered on a sliding fee scale)
Funded in part by grants from the Community Opportunity Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
For more information contact:
Arna at 715.392.6007 or
Erika Mock at 715.392.1150
"This collaboration has created fertile ground for the imagination to soar..."
Kit Eastman, complex surface design
St. Paul, MN
"Artists and writers spend a large part of time working in solitude. I am glad to collaborate with visual artists because their images trigger my own creative work. This project inspired me to put together a chapbook just for the exhibit, "Love's Cloth." I hand colored the cover of my chapbook...it's available as a limited edition."
Sheila Packa, poet
Duluth, MN
"When a poem arrives full grown, the result is a delight like no other. I crave those mystical visits of the muse, whoever she is, whenever she comes.
"But there is another ecstasy which I experience on occasion in the writing of poetry, an experience which is represented in this show. That is the spark created by collaboration -- collaboration between emotion and nature, between idea and experience, between word, form and music, and, in this show, the collaboration between fiber artist and poet.
"Leslie Williamson White shared with me her sense of an aging woman's body -- in a self-portrait fiber torso and in her words. She also shared a book she loved about the mythology of Aphrodite or Venus. I responded from my own experience as a woman older than Leslie and with my knowledge of poetic forms that could order images -- both those from Leslie's fiber creation and from the earth.
"I believe, working alone, Leslie and I could not have created works with the resonance which came from the echoes between us. I am convinced this complex creativity is a mystical experience which is no less miraculous than my hoped for visit of the poetic muse."
Ann Floreen Niedringaus, poet
Duluth, MN
