A Reading of Poems About Art with Poet and Painter Jane Shoenfeld
December 09, 2022
Event: 5:30PM – 7PM
Doors Open: 5:00PM

You are invited to a reading of Jane Shoenfeld’s ekphrastic poetry on December 9th from 5:30 to 6PM at Strata Gallery. Ekphrastic poetry explores visual art by addressing the image in a painting by inhabiting or interpreting it. The reading will also include relevant slides of art. Following a 15-minute break for refreshments, attendees are invited to stay till 7PM and draw using pastels or markers – creating your own images in response to Shoenfeld’s art work. No previous art background is needed to participate. Materials will be provided and Jane will help you get started. 

Jane Shoenfeld has written about Arschille Gorky’s famous red painting, AGONY and art by Kandinsky and O’Keeffe, among others. In her poem “A Dignity to This Loss,” in response to Gorky’s painting, Shoenfeld writes, the painter’s memory floats towards immolation and injury . . . Fragments sliced and silhouetted hang from ropes, rise towards malformed bouquet of white.

Shoenfeld’s poetry has been published in numerous journals, including the Tulip Tree Anthology: Stories that Need to be Told where her poem “Angel in the Dark” won an honorable mention. Her first book of poetry, Petals in the Tunnel, was published in 2021. Jane has also taught art for many years in a variety of settings including SFCC, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Esalen Institute. She began her own school, Art Adventures in the SW, in 1998 and continues to teach art to many visitors and private students over the years.

There is no charge for this event. Gallery doors open at 5PM for the 5:30PM reading. Please arrive early so you can be seated before the reading begins at 5:30PM.

 Masks required.

Jane Shoenfeld, Archetypal Fireball, Pastel on Tinted, Sanded Paper, 22 ¾” x 18 ¼”