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Words Meet Art & Arts As Alchemy | Sept 13 & 14

Join Ames Writers Collective Founder, Ana McCracken for an evening of Words Meet Art held in partnership with “Arts As Alchemy Forgetting to Remember Pieces of Me” a collage exhibit titled, “Pieces of Me” by of artist, author, and musician, Deb Kline.

These events will be held in the Gallery in the Round located at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames.

Words Meet Art is a literary arts event celebrating the intersection of words and art, which is referred to as ekphrastic response. Ekphrastic work combines vivid description by a writer of a piece of art, essentially representing a “painting in words.” During these two sessions, writers may write prose, memoir or poetry in response to the collages featured in the exhibit, “Pieces of Me.”

Writers are invited to read their work at the Arts as Alchemy Participant Showcase. Registration is free with RSVP requested. RSVP opportunities during the writing sessions.