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Arts Benicia opens ‘Art of a Community’ online
BENICIA Arts Benicia opens its 34th year with “Art of a Community,” an exhibition showcasing the talents of its artist members. As the new year opens with social distancing and shelter-at-home restrictions just lifted this week in Solano County, the exhibition will be presented online at artsbenicia.org/art-of-a-community-2021-exhibition.
More than 130 California artists are participating in the exhibition, which contains artwork of all media.
An Ekphrastic Poetry event and Family Art Day will take place, via Zoom, in conjunction with the exhibition. Poets are invited to create original poetry inspired by pieces of art that are in the exhibition. A Family Art Day will provide art-making activities for all ages.
The Craven Early College high school students might tell you you’re not alone if you don’t like poetry, but their experience with poetry during the 2020 school year may tell a different story. Amanda Smith, their teacher, would tell you not to write it off just yet.
In September students entered the Bank of the Arts’ annual Ekphrastic Poetry Competition. For several years this juried art exhibition and accompanying poetry competition has been a classroom staple when teaching poetry. “Ekphrastic” poetry is poetry inspired by art, so students explored the exhibition’s photographs, paintings, and sculptures (online of course) then wrote poems in response to the piece of artwork they chose. encouraging students to discuss their artwork choices and workshop their poems with their teacher one-on-one and then with each other. For a week the class discussed how the interpretation of an artist’s title can alter how we see the art, or how the details and medium mattered more w