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Poet Tracie Morris Master Artist Outreach

July 3, 2018, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Free

Reading, followed by Q & A and book signing

ACA Downtown: Harris House, 214 South Riverside Drive, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168. For more information, please contact (386) 423-1753.

Click here to read June 2018 article in Orlando Weekly’s Beats, rhymes and life entitled “Cutting-edge sound poet Tracie Morris comes to the Atlantic Center” by 

Tracie Morris is a poet and vocalist who works in multiple media. She has performed extensively around the world. Her sound installations have been presented at numerous institutions, such as the Drawing Center, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument presented by Dia Art Foundation, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Dia: Chelsea, The Kitchen Performance Space, The Museum of Modern Art, The Silent Barn, and The Whitney Biennial. Morris is the recipient of awards, fellowships, and grants for poetry and performance, including New York Foundation for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Franklin Furnace and Creative Capital fellowships as well as residencies at Millay, Yaddo and MacDowell colonies. Tracie’s work has been extensively anthologized and recorded. Her most recent poetry collection, handholding:5 kinds, was published by Kore Press in 2016. She is co-editor of Best American Experimental Writing 2016 with Charles Bernstein, published by Wesleyan University Press. Tracie holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University, has studied American acting technique at Michael Howard Studios and classical British acting techniques at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She is a former fellow of Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Tracie has taught at many prestigious academies and is the founding Professor and Coordinator of Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt Institute, New York.

For more information, please visit http://www.traciemorris.com/

Details

Date:
July 3, 2018
Time:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

Ivan Riascos, Residency Director
Phone:
ACA Main Campus: 386-427-6975
Email:
iriascos@atlanticcenterforthearts.org

Venue

ACA at Harris House
214 S Riverside Dr.
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 United States
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