Poetry Dialog + Open Mic Featuring Artists Shelley White, Deanna Pindell, and Leah Dalton

Thursday, December 11th · 7 PM (EST)
In-Person & Virtual via Zoom RSVP
Hosted by Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) in partnership with The 109 Gallery

Join Artists Shelley White, Deanna Pindell and Leah Dalton in poetry and dialog. Bring your poetry to share. All formats welcomed, “all voices heard”.

Presented virtually through Zoom and in person at The 109 Gallery in Historic Downtown Chickamauga, GA. Leah will be on-site at The 109 Gallery while Shelley and Deanna will share via zoom, we will screen the zoom in the gallery. All participates online or in-person are welcome to share, exchange across borders of cities, states, and countries their poetry.

We will begin the evening hearing from the featured artists and then roll into an open mic format.

About the Artists

Shelley K. White is an artist, activist, public-health professor, and WEAD board member whose practice engages social and environmental injustices, especially in borderland contexts. Her work uses painting, collage, sculpture, poetry and found materials to explore migration, ecology and identity.

Deanna Pindell is a Washington-based eco-artist whose installations, sculpture and public art focus on forest and water-quality issues, indigenous rights, and community-science collaborations. She is featured in the exhibition and serves on WEAD’s exhibitions committee and board.

Leah Dalton is a curator and artist currently serving on WEAD’s exhibitions committee and Board. She is also an exhibiting artist in this series and the curator for this current exhibition. Her broad practice explores eco-feminist themes, community arts and material activism, and ecosexual studies.

About the Exhibition:
This event is part of the ongoing Artist & Curatorial Dialog series presented by WEAD and The 109 Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition

Bodies & Borders: Ecologies of Consent — a collaborative project exploring care, connection, and multispecies consent through the work of women artists worldwide.
View the online exhibition: https://www.weadartists.org/bodies-borders-ecologies-of-consent

Free · RSVP Required
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Meeting ID: 843 5956 9248