At 3:30 p.m. in room 100 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Frances Van Keuren will deliver the next Visual Culture Colloquim (VCC) lecture, "Drawings of Figures in Ancient Costumes by Thomas Hope (1769-1831): Their Sources in Engravings from Books in Hope's Library."
From 5 to 6 p.m., in room S150 of the Dodd, UGA Costa Rica is sponsoring a presentation by art professors Scott Belville and Kinsey Branham and local artist Mary Engel on the Maymester 2010 Costa Rica study abroad art program. The program offers five courses in studio art and, as the Web site says:
Students will experience and reflect upon the nature and culture of Costa Rica through study, direct observation and interaction with its people, natural and built environment, and institutions of culture. As a result of their experiences and reflections, the students will create a process-portfolio of works of art, journal entries, sketches, and exhibition that demonstrates the ways their art and ways of thinking have been informed by their international study experience.
Finally, at 7 p.m. at Ciné, the Georgia Review presents a poetry reading featuring Keith Ratzlaff, whose book "Dubious Angels" is an ekphrastic work comprised of poems written in response to Paul Klee paintings.
Ratzlaff won the 1996 Anhinga Prize for "Poetry for Man under a Pear Tree." His other books include "Across the Known World" (Loess Hills Press, 1997) and two more volumes from Anhinga Press: "Dubious Angels: Poems after... Paul Klee" (2005), based on the artist’s late drawings and paintings; and "Then, a Thousand Crows" (2009). Copies of Ratzlaff’s works will be available at the reading, courtesy of Judy Long’s Byhalia Books. Of the generously illustrated "Dubious Angels," Georgia Review editor Stephen Corey has written, “Keith Ratzlaff’s long-established and distinctive voice—gentle, playful, yet snap-your-head-back incisive and moving—is both present in and altered by his deep confrontation with Paul Klee’s complex simple renderings of offbeat angels. To have these poems side by side with the artworks is a visceral pleasure and a boon to both artists.” Ratzlaff’s poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry Northwest, which gave him its Theodore Roethke Award, and in many other journals, including the Georgia Review, McSweeney’s, New England Review, and North American Review. Also, his poems and essays have been included in such anthologies as "The Best American Poetry 2009," "The Pushcart Prize XXXI" (2007), "A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry" (2003), and "In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland" (2003). Keith Ratzlaff is professor of English at Central College in Pella, Iowa.
No comments:
Post a Comment