R204. Ecstatic Ekphrastic: When Images Are More Than Inspiration

E147-148, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

How do vintage photographs, embroideries, collages, installations, comics, paintings, and technical diagrams transform into hybrid stories, poems, and essays? Panelists working in a variety of picture-and-text combinations will discuss strategies and techniques for going beyond image as mere illustration in order to explore how visual art can break creative writing out of traditional narrative forms and push it toward transcendent multimedia synthesis.


Participants

Moderator:

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. Her books include Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, and The Mobius Strip Club of Grief. She is creative director at the Ruth Stone Foundation in Goshen, Vermont.

Sarah Minor is the author of The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a digital chapbook. She runs a series on visual essays at Essay Daily and teaches as a doctoral candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Ohio University. Her recent work appears at The Normal School, Passages North, and Territory.

Dustin Parsons is the author of Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams. He is the winner of a New York Fine Arts grant and an Ohio Arts Grant in nonfiction. He teaches at the University of Mississippi.

Kelcey Parker Ervick is the author of The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova, a hybrid work of biography, memoir, and visual art. Her two previous fiction books are Liliane's Balcony and For Sale By Owner. She teaches at Indiana University South Bend and leads a study abroad program to Prague/Berlin.

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