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Amy Jean Porter & Matthea Harvey
Making 'Of Lamb'
Reception & Reading Saturday, November 5, 5 PM-7 PM
ARTIST AND POET WORKSHOP:
SATURDAY, November 19 2 PM
for newbies to persistent creators
During the workshop Porter and Harvey will discuss their collaborative creative process and lead you through a series of experimental poetry exercises addressing how image and text can work together.
Saturday, November 19 | 2-5 PM
Regular Admission: $15/ $10 for Members
Materials Provided (or bring your own book to erase & magazine for collage!)
To Book Tickets Please Call Us at 860.232.1006
The Making 'Of Lamb' is an exhibition of drawings by Amy Jean Porter, in collaboration with poet Matthea Harvey. Created out of an innovative process, Of Lamb is what Porter call "an irreverent and irresponsible retelling of the nursery rhyme, 'Mary had a little lamb'." Harvey randomly selected a biography of 19th century British thinker Charles Lamb and began a process of erasure, whiting out words on each page until she had the text of small poems. She sent the poems to Porter, who made drawings of each and sequenced them into a longer work. In the artists' version, Mary spends time in a madhouse, Lamb favors slippers and the two fall in love and contemplate having half-human half-sheep offspring. The book, Of Lamb includes 106 drawings and poems, is available from McSweeney's. Real Art Ways' exhibition will be of a selection of original drawings along side the whited-out source text. Porter and Harvey will do a reading of the poems during the reception.
About the Artists:
Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life (a New York Times Notable Book), Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, as well as a fable for adults and children called The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. She is the recipient of the Kingsley Tuft prize.
Amy Jean Porter grew up in Oklahoma and Arizona, and now lives outside of New Haven, Connecticut. She has drawn more than one thousand species of animals for her ongoing project "All Species, All the Time." She's had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Paris, and her drawings have been featured in Cabinet, Flaunt, jubilat, Meatpaper, and elsewhere.
The Making 'Of Lamb' is made possible through the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Travelers, Bank of America Foundation, NewAlliance Foundation, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Sandy and Howard Fromson, Robinson and Nancy Grover, and Real Art Ways' Members.