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OUTreach: Crystal Wilkinson

May 23, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join us for Mentoring Artist-in-Residence colloquium series featuring leading artists presenting their studio practice, work process and notable works. Mature content. This event is free and open to the public. ADA accessible.

 

Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is Kentucky’s Poet Laureate. She is the award-winning author of Perfect Black, a collection of poemsand three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence, Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of a 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, a 2021 O. Henry Prize, a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship, and a 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. She has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Foundation and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Atlantic, The Kenyon ReviewSTORYAgni Literary Journal, EmergenceOxford American and Southern Cultures.  Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, is forthcoming from Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.  For more information, visit www.crystalewilkinson.net. 

Each residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts partners will Central Florida institutions to present our public colloquium series OUTreach, featuring talks from Mentoring Artists. To inquire about partnering with us to co-present a colloquium, please review and complete our Mentoring Artist Outreach Request Form located on the Opportunities tab above.

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Date:
May 23
Time:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Organizer

Sadie Woods, Curatorial & Residency Director
Phone
386-427-6975 X13

Venue

Winter Park Library
1052 West Morse Boulevard
Winter Park, FL 32789 United States
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