Art & Text Exhibit At Norwalk Public Library In December

From the Norwalk Public Library:

November 21 2019

Art & Text Exhibit at Norwalk Public Library December 1 - 31

Art & Text = Visual Poetry

Norwalk, CT–Norwalk Public Library presents the exhibit Art & Text throughout the month of December, with an art and poetry reception on Sunday, December 15, at 2 p.m., in the Main library, located at 1 Belden Avenue, Norwalk.

One of 13 Fairfield County libraries that came together, for the first time, to explore the relationship between art and text, Norwalk PL will showcase work that is a unique twist on ekphrastic poetry, the vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art. In a reversal, we called for submissions of poetry and photos of artwork, from which our committee selected 12 poems and 12 artists. Artists were then given a poem and asked to create an original, visual representation of the poem in the medium of their choice.

The Art & Text exhibit also will include the work of three sixth-grade artists who submitted their work, six poets and six artists from the Winston Preparatory School, and Norwalk Housing Authority S.T.E.M. Club artists and poets.

For additional information, please contact Cynde Bloom Lahey, Director of Library Information Services, at (203) 899-2780 ext. 15133, or clahey@norwalkpl.org.

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