"The Art of Seeing: Reflections on Art through Poetry" Opening Reception
- Kent
A collaboration between the School of Art Collection and Galleries & the Wick Poetry Center
August 26 - October 8, 2025, at the CVA Gallery
Reception: August 29 | 5-7 p.m.
The School of Art Collection at the Center for Visual Arts at 91传媒在线 contains over 4500 art and aesthetic objects, in which community engagement with is encouraged and promoted. A recent series of community engagement events over the past year included poetry workshops with the Wick Poetry Center. The Wick Poetry Center in Kent, OH has serviced the northeast Ohio community with poetry for over forty years, hosting workshops and community events to keep the art of poetry alive in the local area. In these collaborative workshop events, pieces from the School of Art Collection were displayed to promote ekphrastic poetry.
Ekphrastic poetry is a form of poetry that vividly describes a scene or work of art. By encouraging engagement with the School of Art Collection pieces, poets were encouraged to encapsulate their response to the artwork, recontextualizing the art pieces through the lens of literary artists.
The School of Art Collection and Galleries and the Wick Poetry Center has chosen to capitalize on their unique partnership by creating this upcoming exhibition 鈥淭he Art of Seeing: Reflections on Art through Poetry.鈥 Over twenty artworks from the School of Art Collection are featured alongside corresponding ekphrastic poems created by members of the Kent Community.