Saturday, May 17: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
Galleries & Education Center
1-3pm
How can our looking, our noticing of Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez’s Dream Map and Cornucopia, inform a poetic practice of resistance and remembering? How does it feel to leave room for image to inform text, and for memory to inform artmaking? In this creative writing session, participants will write poems or flash stories in response to Friedemann-Sánchez’s works, which engage the natural world, sociocultural and gender identity, and colonial history. Participants will have the opportunity to share their written work with others and receive feedback in an encouraging, generative setting.
Free with museum admission. Class is limited to 20 participants. Pre-registration is encouraged.
About the Teacher: Misha Tentser (he/him) is a Ukrainian-American poet from Tucson, Arizona. His poems have appeared in North American Review, HAD, Midway Journal, Sonora Review, and Terrain.org, and are forthcoming from Foglifter Journal and RHINO. Misha is the author of the chapbook Born in the Wrong Desert (Mouthfeel Press, 2023) and leads outreach activities for the Everson Museum of Art.
