More on the Venus Exhibit…

Cul­ti­vat­ing Venus by Angela Haworth

NorthEn­dArt Gallery and Red Mug Coffeehouse

invite you to an event in con­junc­tion with the col­lab­o­ra­tive exhibit:  Venus Poets and Fiber Artists Reflect.

Eclipsed:

• a mul­ti­me­dia per­for­mance by video­g­ra­pher and poet Patrick Eller, Poet Sheila Packa and Cel­list Kathy McTavish.
• come expe­ri­ence the  jour­ney and sound­scapes and spo­ken words of these 3 impro­vi­sa­tional artists

Where:
Red Mug Cof­fee­house
1323 Broad­way… Cor­ner of Ham­mond and Broad­way… Supe­rior WI

When:
Sat Sept 27 . 7pm

This event  is the 2nd in the 7 week series in con­junc­tion with  the exhibit Venus:  Poets and Fiber Artists Reflect.

Patrick Eller calls him­self  a col­lec­tor of moments.

“I don’t know, I have never really known… there are peo­ple who will tell you that they know but I don’t know. I am an eas­ily dis­tracted wit­ness.  I am an artist and these are my crops.  These are the crude sound­tracks I leave deep in the caves of the past so that I may be reminded in the future of just what my story might be..”

His poetry is also on view in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Angela Haworth’s exquis­ite con­tem­po­rary quilt­ing… see  image above.

Sheila Packa grew up on the Iron Range, is the grand­daugh­ter of Finnish immi­grants, and lives in Duluth. She has pub­lished poems, short sto­ries, and essays in many lit­er­ary mag­a­zines and antholo­gies. Most recently, her work has been fea­tured in New Rivers Press book, To Sing Along the Way: Min­nesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present, edited by Joyce Sut­phen, Thom Tam­maro, and Con­nie Wanek. She’s received two Arrow­head Regional Arts Coun­cil fel­low­ships for poetry, two Loft McK­night Awards and, this year, a career oppor­tu­nity grant from ARAC.

This project inspired Sheila to put together a chap­book just for the exhibit, “Love’s Cloth.”  She hand col­ored the cover of her chapbook…it’s avail­able as a lim­ited edition

Event is free and open to the public.

Funded in part by grants from the Com­mu­nity Oppor­tu­nity Fund of the Duluth Supe­rior Area Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion and the Wis­con­sin Arts Board.

For more infor­ma­tion con­tact:
Arna at 715.392.6007 or
info@neartscouncil.org
Erika Mock at 715.392.1150
www.neartscouncil.org