Pre-Festival Program for VA Festival of the Book – Art Speak

In conjunction with the 112th Annual Exhibition – Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women, Gary Dop, poet/playwright, Director of Randolph’s MFA program, and English faculty, will lead an ekphrastic writing exercise. Dop’s most recent poem, On Dys•coffering Dyslexia at 44, is a 3D poem/object. Artist Lyall Harris will give a tour of the 112th Annual Exhibition, Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women and lead a bookmaking activity which will incorporate participants’ ekphrastic writing into an artists’ book connecting text, image, and form. This workshop is for participants 16+. Free but seating is limited. Registration is required.

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