Art After Hours: Rhythms + Rhymes

Don’t just look at art, hear it! Enjoy contemporary ensemble performances by students in the School of Music and experience works of art in a new light through ekphrastic poetry readings by Penn State students. Repurpose artwork labels to create your own Dada poems and enjoy light refreshments.

RESONANCE: AN EVENING OF SOUND, WORD, AND IMAGE will be a uniquely intimate and immersive performance in the evocative setting of the Palmer's Ned A. Brokloff Gallery of postwar modern art. Penn State's brand new Contemporary Music Ensemble joins forces with students in Advanced Poetry Writing to create an interdisciplinary exploration of sound, word, and image. The poems of Emily Dickinson, Rumi, and Federico Garcia Lorca, letters from Attica prison, and the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky all intertwine with the beautiful and captivating sounds of composers Toru Takemitsu, George Crumb, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Leilehua Lanzilotti and Frederic Rzewski. The student poets will offer their own ekphrastic responses to artwork in the gallery space and to the music itself. Join us for a rare convergence of art forms and student creativity that transforms the gallery into a living performance space.

You may also like the following events from Palmer Museum of Art:

• This Thursday, 26th February, 05:00 pm, Art After Hours: "We Are Here" in University Park
• Next Thursday, 5th March, 06:00 pm, Curator Talk: Margaret Nagawa in University Park
• Next month, 12th March, 06:00 pm, Sensory-Friendly Hours at the Palmer in University Park

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