Free to Museum and Castle members; $10 general public. Space is limited; advanced registration recommended (below); walk-ins welcome if space permits. Joslyn Castle is located at 3902 Davenport Street. Questions? Contact Karla Lechtenberger, Education Programs Coordinator, at (402) 661-3846 or kl@joslyn.org.
Meet up with friends, Joslyn Art Museum curators, and Nebraska Writers Collective poets for a touch of art and verse at Joslyn Castle. We will gather every other month, through May, for an art talk/poetry pairing that explores a work from the Museum’s collection that has been selected by the public. Cast a vote on social media or the web, then show up to discover the crowdsourced pick, hear a curator’s take on the work, and experience a poet’s performance of an original piece inspired by it. Art and poetry amid exquisite architecture . . . perfectly lyrical!
Wednesday, March 15, 6:30 pm (cash bar @ 6 pm)
Which work will Karin Campbell, Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art, and poet Genevieve Williams explore? From February 3-13, vote for one of these works (shown below, left to right) that will inspire the March 15 program: Hayv Kahraman's Mnemonic Artifact 3, Simone Leigh's Sphinx, or Richard Mosse's Yayladagi, Turkey.
Public voting has ended for this program and the chosen work is Hayv Kahraman's Mnemonic Artifact 3, below left.
Meet the March Poet
Genevieve N. Williams holds an M.F.A. from University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she received two Academy of American Poets Prizes. She is a queer poet whose work won an Edward Stanley Award, was nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and appears in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, The American Journal of Poetry, Mid-American Review, and Verse Daily, among other journals and anthologies. Williams is a teaching artist, a writing center coordinator, a writing consultant, and an adjunct English instructor.
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