Rachel Eliza Griffiths in The Green Room at Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center

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The Merwin Conservancy will present a reading and talk with award-winning visual artist, poet, and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths in partnership with the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center. Griffiths will share insights into her work both as a visual artist and writer. This program is part of The Merwin Conservancy’s series of popular arts and ecology literary events known as The Green Room. The program will be followed by a book signing and light refreshments. The Hui Holidays exhibition will be open until 8 PM.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations, including Civitella Ranieri, Kimbilio, Cave Canem Foundation, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Best American Poetry, and other publications. Her debut novel, Promise, was a Kirkus Reviews and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year. Griffiths' debut memoir, The Flower Bearers (Random House), is forthcoming in January. She lives in New York City.

A special offering for Maui residents: through our partnership with Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center, the first 5 residents to purchase tickets to this event will receive a complimentary individual Hui membership including 20% discount on class, camp, and workshop tuition, access to professionally equipped artist studios (studio fees & prerequisites apply), juried exhibition entry discounts, invitations to special events and selected opening receptions & more.

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