The Irondequoit Art Club’s Artist Lecture Series will turn its spotlight on Art and Poetry in February, as five artist-poets will recite one of their selections and present a corresponding artwork.
David James Delaney is an auto worker, editor, journalist, teacher, painter, poet, and writer. He is also a husband and father, and more recently, a grandfather. Winner and finalist in several writing contests (national and international). One of his recent portraits is now hanging in the Irish Embassy in Ottawa. He wrote The Book of Delaney and plans to release Short Stories, etc. later this year.
Karen Faris works across the artistic spectrum and creates to escape the constraints of gravity. Whether she is writing, making visual art, fabric, or performance art, words remain her constant in this rapidly changing world as she argues for a better, kinder, more compassionate planet. “Florine! Oh Florine!” is a work of collage and is part of a collection created during the Pandemic and exhibited at Nu Movement Yoga and Art Gallery.
Wanda Schubmehl began to write poetry seriously upon turning 40. She created and/or participated in several poetry and visual art collaborations, and at the age of 70 began to paint. Her abstract acrylics commonly have strong elements of color play, pattern, balance, and emotion. She will offer her poem “Abstract in Bluegreen,” and her painting “Aqua Marine” for this program.
Pamela Babusci is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka and haiga artist. She loves to sumi-e paint, write Japanese calligraphy, paint abstracts, make jewelry, sculpt, and assemble collages. Pamela is the founder and editor of moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, the first all-women’s international tanka journal, and recently the art of tanka. Her tanka collections are A Thousand Reasons, A Solitary Woman, and pages from a tanka diary.
Nancy Jo Gambacurta – Nancy Jo Gambacurta was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y. She graduated from MCC and Empire State College with concentrated study in both painting and sculpture. Her current work includes acrylic painting and linoleum reduction printing. She has written two books of poetry and is working on a third.
Irondequoit Art Club’s Artist Lecture Series: Art and Poetry will be held on Tuesday, February 25, at 7:00 PM. No registration is necessary, so please join us for this program if you can.
Published on February 21, 2025.
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