Free for Members, $5 per Non-Members
Pre-registration is required. Registration is limited. Registration will open two weeks prior to each monthly session.
Each month, participants will be introduced to one of the Museum’s exhibitions in a fun and interactive way through Zoom. ArtLabs are led by professional artists and art educators who will engage participants of all ages and skills in the creation of their own piece of artwork. Each virtual ArtLab will include a private Zoom invitation as well as a supply list to gather prior to the lab.
VIRTUAL LABS: These labs will take place in a virtual classroom accessed from the comfort of your own home through Zoom. Students will enjoy an online learning environment with the instructor and their fellow classmates for live engagement, interaction, and access to additional resources. Links to download the Zoom program and to attend class meetings will be provided to each student for easy access.
Saturday, December 12, 2020 - (Registration has passed)
Ekphrastic Poetry with Cecilia Llompart
WILLIAM ENTREKIN, THE APPRENTICE, 2008, FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE PERMANENT COLLECTION, GIFT OF THE ARTIST, MADE POSSIBLE BY HARMON-MEEK GALLERY.
Lab starts at 10:30am
Free for Members, $5 per Non-Members
Pre-registration is required.
Registration deadline: Thursday, December 10th
Join writer and poet, Cecilia Llompart, for a hands-on look into our ”What’s the Story?: Art in Search of a Narrative” exhibition through ekphrastic poetry.
What is an ekphrastic poem? Fittingly, it is a poem in which a work of art is described. However, in order to produce an ekphrastic poem, the poet must do more than play the role of objective observer. Because ekphrastic poetry engages with art, it sees paintings, photographs, and even live performances as objects and experiences that are in conversation with history itself —and ekphrastic poetry seeks to contribute something to that conversation. Some of the greatest poets of all time — from Ashbury to Auden, Berryman to Browning, Sexton to Shelley — conversed with some of the greatest artists of their time . . . And so can you!
In this ArtLab, participants will have the freedom to choose between formal and informal styles of writing to explore what happens in the space between the artwork and the person standing in front of it.
Basic Supplies Needed for Lab:
Hat (any hat will do)
Pair of shoes (that you can get your feet into)
Feather (preferably found, rather than bought)
Selfie you took of yourself (printed out, if possible)
Journal or diary (it can be a personal one, if you already keep one)
Cecilia Llompart was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Florida. She is the author of The Wingless (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014), and her book-length poem, Wild Vespers, was a finalist for the 2020 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize from Anhinga Press, a semi-finalist for the Fall 2017 Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Competition, and a finalist for the 2016 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse Journal. She has been awarded a fellowship from The Dickinson House, named one of two finalists for The Field Office Agency’s 2016 Postcard Prize in poetry, and one of ten winners in Neat Streets Miami “Growing Green Bus Stop” Haiku Contest. Her plays have been produced in both the United States and Europe, and her poetry has been published widely as well as translated into three languages.
She currently lives and teaches in the suburbs of Paris, France.
REGISTRATION: (Deadline - Thursday, December 10th)
QUESTIONS: If you have any questions, please email EChastain@PolkMuseumofArt.org.