Spring Arts Week: Ekphrastic Poetry Gallery

This is a free installation and poetry reading.  It will feature the work of past an present Valencia Poets.

This will show the process of ekphrasis, a Greek term that has come to mean the description of or response to one work of art through the creation of another.

Simonides of Ceos: Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks. 

Word and Image: a conversation between poetry and art

What happens when an Ekphrasis experience begins with poetry.  This is facilitated by Nikki Barnes.

This is a Spring Arts Week Event.  See the complete event calendar here:  https://sites.google.com/view/springartsweek2020/home