THREADS

Threads is an exhibition of art and poetry responding to each other and intertwining curated by Virlana Tkacz, Olena Jennings, Carlos Quijon, and Alejandra Fonseca. It will include artists from Russia, Ukraine, the US, Colombia, and the Philippines. Readings and related events will be part of Threads.

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The textile artists in this exhibition will create new works based on poetry. The poems will also be heard in their original and translation during special events, but the true language of the exhibit will be the art they inspire. 

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The first phase of the exhibition opens February 11, 2021 in Bogota, Colombia.

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Above art by Ged Merino.

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Read about Threads on the Poets of Queens web site here.

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For a dress inspired by poetry see: https://firstindigoandlifestyle.com/2021/02/03/an-escape-from-solitude/

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MEMORY PROJECT

Memory Project is a chapbook of poetry released thanks to Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

I sort through the memories that have been passed down to me and the memories that are

of my own experiences of family and place, bringing past memory into the

present.  The performance included textile art and the photographs themselves, modified. 

A video by Olga Mak was shown and there was culinary art by Olesia Lew.

November 18, 2018, Memory Project Reading and Exhibition,

Queens Farm, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Queens.

A second event, Memory Imaging was performed at the Red Barn in Marshfield Hills, MA. Olena Jennings read with poet Dzvinia Orlowsky and Sweet Wednesday performed. The barn was decorated with white dresses made by Olena, "The dresses represent those women who have been left behind. They are like maps that lead back to ghosts. They are a lost glove in the street."

May 4, 2019, Memory Imagining, Red Barn, Marshfield Hills, MA.

A third event, was performed at Bliss on Bliss Studio. Olena Jennings read poems and hung two dresses from the project. 

September 7, 2019, Memory Project, Bliss on Bliss, Sunnyside, NY.

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