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Part 1—Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Museum 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA, United States

Words Meet Art, an outreach program of the Ames Writers Collective, is a literary arts event demonstrating through words how art, used as a writing prompt, can invoke feelings, trigger memories, and inspire conversations across divides and demographics. For inspiration, writers will interact with the Harriet Bart exhibition at the Christian Petersen Art Museum...

Part 1—Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Museum 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA, United States

Words Meet Art, an outreach program of the Ames Writers Collective, is a literary arts event demonstrating through words how art, used as a writing prompt, can invoke feelings, trigger memories, and inspire conversations across divides and demographics. For inspiration, writers will interact with the Harriet Bart exhibition at the Christian Petersen Art Museum ...

Part II—Public Reading | Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Museum 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA, United States

Writers who participated in Words Meet Art Part 1 will present their flash fiction, poems, creative nonfiction, a monologue, and/or perform music in response to the exhibition Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy in the Christian Petersen Art Museum.

Ames Writers Collective Founder @ Poetry Palooza!

Mainframe Studios 900 Keosauqua Way, Des Moines, United States

Friday and Saturday are filled with workshops and open mics at Mainframe Studios, and Poetry Palooza! concludes with a panel discussion at NOON on Saturday featuring moderator, Debra Marquart and panelists that include Ana McCracken, founder of the Ames Writers Collective. Click here for more information and to RSVP for the FREE events.