Recommended by Heather Dwyer
Saturday, February 13, 2010
11 am – 1:30pm
Frye Art Museum
Free
“Look at the subject, think about it before photographing, look until it becomes alive and looks back into you.” —Edward Steichen
Poets Susan Rich and Lillias Bever lead a workshop on ekphrasis, poems written about visual art. Famous models of the form by such poets as W.H. Auden, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and Lisel Mueller will be examined as well as recent examples by local poets published in Looking Together: Writers on Art (Frye Art Museum/ University of Washington Press, 2009). Participants will sharpen their powers of observation and try their hand at writing poems on works of art in the Frye’s collection. All levels of writers are welcome.
Both poets received funding through 4Culture’s Individual Artist Projects program, which helped make this free workshop possible.
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Photo by Carrick
