Seeing Poetry
Thursday, April 30, 6-9p
$50

Using visual images as inspiration, participants will develop their own free verse poetry.

A note from teaching artist and poet, Rebecca Edwards: My poetry and my art come from the same source: an image or series of images which I develop into poems and drawings, paintings or collages. Whether you are a practicing poet, a dabbler or a beginner in this medium, come explore the non-rhyming form(s).

Rebecca Edwards is an Australian poet and visual artist based in San Francisco. She has exhibited works on paper and found object sculpture in Japan, New Zealand, and Australia, with work held in private collections across these countries as well as in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The University of Queensland’s Fryer Library houses a collection of her works on paper alongside manuscripts, journals, and other ephemera (Rebecca Edwards Papers UQFL434).

A childhood spent in remote parts of the South Pacific—Papua New Guinea and Nauru—and various regions of Australia, including the Northern Territory,Queensland, and New South Wales, exposed Rebecca Edwards to many different modes of existence, and many different ways of experiencing and creating art.

 An experienced educator, she has taught drawing, paper-cutting, mosaic, poetry, prose writing, collage, and bookmaking to students of all ages, and has performed her poetry at major literary events in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. 

10 participants max

Seeing Poetry will be held at Michelle Thomas Fine Art Gallery + Studio, 40 29th St, San Francisco 94110.

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ADA Note: Attendees must descend one flight of stairs to access The Studio.