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02.05: First Thursday: Winter Coat
2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
Curator Ben Killen Rosenberg wanted to do something unique when asked to put together a show for a prior exhibition. Instead of choosing an artist or a theme on which to base the show, Rosenberg asked his wife, writer Loretta Stinson Rosenberg, if he could use a short story she wrote titled "Winter Coat." "I'm interested in how a group of wildly different artists might interpret a piece of literature without illustrating it, and as far as I know, something like this hasn't been done before," says Rosenberg. Stinson Rosenberg, a past recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship and author of Little Green (Hawthorne Books, 2010), gladly agreed. Rosenberg sent the story to local and nationally known artists who work in different media, inviting them to participate. His sole caveat was that the artists use the story as a starting place for their piece. Artists contributing to the Winter Coat exhibit are Holly Andres, Horia Boboia, Larry Clark, Matthew Dennison, Eduardo Fernandez, Jacques Flechemuller, Trish Grantham, Julie Keefe, Cynthia Lahti, Pat Lando, Bill LePore, Mike McGovern, Hickory Mertsching, Jeffry Mitchell, Ben Rosenberg, and J. Scott Wilson.
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