This has turned out to be a wonderful day.   I came home from my night out so tired and then couldn't get a sound sleep last night.   I stayed in bed until after 9AM and then sat around in my nightgown until lunch time. 

My friend, Maureen Smith, from Chicago called at about 10:30 and we talked for over an hour.   We are going to take an evening at the gathering and just catch up for real.   She is such a great gal.  She may come to stay with me at the end of the month and go to the opening of the Making it Speak event that I am participating in at the Ebco Art Fair.  I will attach a copy of one of the press notices for you.   I will have two poems that I am sharing.    One, an artist has created a piece to go with it and one that I created a poem to go with the piece of art.     I think I am happy with my pieces and hope that you are too.

I went to Mass at 4PM.  Brought communion to Tom and Rita again.  Then I fed Roxie and went to see Mom and bring the sacrament to her.   She was so happy.   I wish there was a service or regular communion at Meadow View.  I think she feels a bit lost.   But we had a nice visit and I left her tired but content.

home again, I am winding down for the night.   Oops forgot a capital letter.  Oh Well.  

I tried to call Jacquie tonight and got her.  Yea.   She is in a rehab center and not too happy.   She knows she cannot be alone but is trying to figure out what to do.   Please pray that all goes well for her.  After all the  people she cared for she surely deserves the best of care for herself.

So. I am done.  I will add that press release.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

“Making It Speak: Poets and Artists in Cahoots”

At the invitation of EBCO Artworks founder, Tim Ebenreiter, the Sheboygan Visual Artists (SVA) and Mead Library Poetry Circle will present a unique, secretly collaborative exhibit which is free, including valet parking, and open to the public. The March 28 event at EBCO, 1201 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan, will showcase poems inspired by art and art inspired by poems.

Refreshments will be served during a reception from 6-10pm. Poems featured in the exhibit will be read beginning at 7:30pm.

Most of the seventeen participating artists and sixteen poets have never met. They have also never seen one another’s response to their art form. Artists and poets each randomly selected an envelope from event co-chairs Erico Ortiz, Georgia Ressmeyer, and Marilyn Windau, which contained three poems or photos of three art works. The artist read the poems and picked one as the starting point for a new artwork. Likewise, the poet studied the photos and chose one to serve as the prompt for a new poem.

The creative process is different for everyone. Dawn Hogue reacted spontaneously, somewhat intuitively to Christopher Tucker’s painting “The Woman with Red Lips.” Her poem quickly spilled onto paper. A passage in a book Clarke Ross was reading added further definition to his poem about Richard Biemann’s photograph “Steps.” Georgia Ressmeyer researched World War I before writing her poem to photographer Dianne Frounfelker’s “From Wisconsin to Argonne.”

“It was a fun process,” said poet Mary Kunert. “One of Keary Kautzer’s works popped out at me, reminded me of childhood experiences. I tried to paint his picture with my words.”

Ray Hagerman described on canvas Ross’ poem “The Toy Sailboat.” In both painting and poem more than a small boy trimming sails is presented. Youthful passage and future life struggles emerge in rapid, churning waters just upstream.

Sylvia Cavanaugh wrote to Paul Otto’s photograph “Duplex” in which his “interpretations and meanings were inherently imbedded.” She feared that “if my interpretations were too different, it might be disrespectful to the creative vision of the artist.”

Silk painter Patty Aker said, “I loved the challenge, but it’s a big responsibility. My art needed to honor the poet’s words.

“The arts are like lasagna,” said Marilyn Windau. “They can be sensory feasts. If you look beyond the bubbling surface, if you take time to cut into lasagna, delve down through the layers, you find treasures to savor. So, too, in poetry, painting, all the arts, there are layers of meaning, smooth or biting textures in words, transparent symbols in pigment, complexities of composition. We invite the public to explore our offerings.”

“Making It Speak: Poets and Artists in Cahoots” may also be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays, March 29-30, April 5-6, and April 12-13 from 10am to 4pm.

For more information please contact Erico Ortiz at 414-587-3474, Marilyn Windau 920-467-6614, or SVA at 262-416-1ART (278)