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 two Open To the Public Events:
1. Opening Reception & Poetry Reading Event - March 29, 5 - 7pm This event has passed.
2. Poetry Reading with Judy Crowe - April 19, 5 - 7pm

Join poet and author Judy Crowe as she reads from her new book from Cornerstone Press, "The Watching Sky". Doors open at 5pm. The presentation begins at 5:30pm and is free and open to the public! The Watching Sky by Judy Crowe. Stirring landscapes and a searching heart inform “The Watching Sky”, the vibrant and compassionate full-length debut from award-winning poet Judy Brackett Crowe. Both a probing exploration of the natural world by various, mostly anonymous speakers, focusing on intimate encounters and interactions, and a questioning and celebration of identity, Crowe’s astute sense of place grounds her work in fields and mountains, soft light and small roads, stories and sounds. With wonder and hope, “The Watching sky proves that there is always another chance, and plenty of stars to follow.

Learn more about Judy here:  https://www.judybrackettcrowe.com

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 ASiF’s Ekphrastic Fantastic Exhibition, 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.

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 will be available for sale and signing.

This event is 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 & Artists:

Participating poets are Gene Berson, Catharine Bramkamp, Kirsten Casey, Katie Chilton, Liz Collins, Kate Dumont, Molly Fisk, Betty Naegele Gundred, Maxima Kahn, Michael Leydon, Iven Lourie, Donna Meares, Susan Michalski, Selene Mitlyng, Chris Olander, Judie Rae, Ellen Dooling Reynard, Susan Solinsky, Robin Wallace and Susan Warden.

Participating artists are Roseanne Burke, Andrea Cateregli, Mariela Cunqueiro, Dori Greenbaum, Cheri Guerrette, Barbara Harris, David Hill, Michelle Jewett, Beth Leydon, Susan Michalski, Amanda Paoletti,  Stephanie Schriver, Robin Wallace, Kathryn Wronski, and Lani Zila.

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."