A Black woman with stands in a high-ceilinged room speaking into a microphone. She is dressed in black, with a shawl thrown over her shoulders. A crowd is standing around her - we can see their heads in the background.

 

Ms.AyeVee reads a poem inspired by Modern Desert Markings at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art's exhibition opening in Spring 2023. Photo: Becca Schwartz/UNLV Creative Services

 

May. 9, 2023

 

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Partners with Poetry Promise

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
June 2023 - June 2024

 

From June 2023 to July 2024, every new season of exhibitions at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art will include a one-month series of weekly poetry workshops developed in partnership with Poetry Promise Inc, a nonprofit organization that advocates for poetry and literature throughout the Las Vegas Valley. Led by professional Las Vegas poets, each free all-ages workshop is designed to bring the visual and literary arts together.

The workshops will take place in the Marjorie Barrick Museum’s exhibition galleries. The poet of the week will lead a conversation about some selected artworks before guiding participants through the process of creating new poems based on the sights and themes they have been discussing. The poets will include Petit Monstre, Charlene Stegman Moskal, Ms.AyeVee, Andrew Romanelli, SamRay, Solid Truth, and Paul Stoddard.  

The first four sessions, which will begin during June 2023 and run on four consecutive Saturdays, will take their inspiration from the Museum’s current exhibitions, Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art, Am I Your Type, and Crowd Burst. The artworks the participants discuss will vary from cast metal sculptures to video, textile, painting, photography, and more. The conversations will cover a range of topics, including land use in the desert near Las Vegas and questions of identity and personal narrative. 

Two subsequent one-month series will coincide with the Marjorie Barrick Museum’s exhibitions in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024.

Poetry Promise’s other programs include The Poetry Promise Reading Series, the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, and Nevada Poets in the Schools. This program is supported in part by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

Check here for details of our June programming: https://www.unlv.edu/announcement/marjorie-barrick-museum-art/poetry-promise-workshops-marjorie-barrick-museum-art

 

 

 
About Poetry Promise
Poetry Promise, Inc. was incorporated in Las Vegas, NV in 2016. It was inspired and founded by Clark County’s first Poet Laureate, Bruce Isaacson. The second Poet Laureate of Clark County, Vogue Robinson, was its Executive Director. The organization is an advocate for the arts and provides a support system for poetry in the Las Vegas Valley. Poetry Promise’s mission is to advance the knowledge and practice of poetry and the literary arts in Clark County, the State of Nevada, and beyond. It provides educational programs, public readings, poetry awards, poetry contests, book publishing, writing workshops, and other related programs and services that advance the cause of literature, poetry, and the arts.
 
About the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art believes everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that holds space for us all. Located on the campus of one of the most racially diverse universities in the U.S., we strive to create a nourishing environment for those who continue to be neglected by contemporary art museums. As the only art museum in the city of Las Vegas, we commit ourselves to leveling barriers that limit access to the arts. Our collection of artworks offers an opportunity for everyone to develop a deeper knowledge of contemporary art in Southern Nevada. The Barrick Museum is part of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
 
Find Us
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is located in the heart of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. The museum is easily accessed from the west side of campus at the intersection of Harmon Avenue and University Center Drive. Drive east on East Harmon Ave until the road enters the campus and terminates in a parking lot. The Museum will be on your right, next to a desert landscape garden. Directions here.
 
Parking
Visitors may park in metered, staff, and student spots free of charge after 7 pm on weekdays, 1 pm on Fridays, and all day Saturday.
Daily, weekly, or monthly permits can be purchased from Parking and Transportation Services.
 
Metered parking spaces for visitors can be found in the parking lot outside the Barrick’s entrance, along East Harmon Ave, and in the lot behind the Lied Library. Other metered green zones are available in the Cottage Grove Avenue Parking Garage and parking areas throughout campus. Download the “PayByPhone Parking” app from Google Play or the iTunes app store. 
 
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