POG
presents
poet Will Alexander and painter Jim Waid
Saturday, March 8, 7pm
Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Admission: $5; Students $3
Will Alexander: Poet, essayist, playwright, and visual artist Will Alexander’s recent and forthcoming books include Asia & Haiti (Sun & Moon), Towards the Primeval Lightning Fields (O Books), Above the Human Nerve Domain (Pavement Saw Press), Impulse & Nothingness (Sun & Moon), and Exobiology as Goddess (Manifest Press). His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Callalloo, Conjunctions, Germ, Orpheus Grid, and Sulfur. His work as a visual artist has appeared at the Beyond Baroque Gallery in Venice, California. Alexander lives in Los Angeles and has taught at the University of California, San Diego, at New College of California, and at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder. He has written widely on many aspects of African American poetry and surrealism. He is currently the Lead Artist, and Artist-In-Residence, for Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First, a Los Angeles based non-profit organization which provides "multi-disciplinary fine arts workshops" across Los Angeles County to under-served at-risk youth 7 to 18; the program has reached over 60,000 youngsters in the past ten years.
Jim Waid was born in Elgin, Oklahoma in 1942, and has lived in Tucson for 30 years. He holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (1965), and an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson (1971). Waid has had solo exhibitions in New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Georgia, New York, Colorado, and California. In 1985, he received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, J.B. Speed Art Museum (Kentucky), Phoenix Art Museum, Tampa (Florida) Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Smith College (Massachusetts) Museum of Art, and many others, along with work in a variety of private collections including IBM and Chemical Bank. The Tucson Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of his painting in the late 1990s. In 2000 he completed and installed a 9' x 50' mural for the Evo DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson, and in early 2002 the University of Arizona Museum of Art exhibited a lifetime of drawings. On March 18 through May 31 of this year, Terry Etherton Gallery will exhibit his works on paper.
Will Alexander’s appearance co-sponsored by the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English. We also thank the following POG donors: Patrons Roberta Howard, Austin Publicover, and Frances Sjoberg; Sponsors Barbara Allen, Chax Press, and Stefanie Marlis.
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