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SUMMARY:Monumental Connection: Three Fold
DESCRIPTION:Monumental Color: Cecily Brown\, Sam Gilliam\, and Joan Mitchel
 l brings together significant artworks by three quintessential abstract
  artists. Through the performance series Monumental Connection\, feature
 d artists engage in dialogue with performers whose work resonates with Sam
  Gilliam’s love for jazz\, Joan Mitchell’s lifelong connection to poet
 ry\, and the frenetic physicality of Cecily Brown’s paintings.\n\nJoan M
 itchell (1925-1992) was a leading Abstract Expressionist painter active in
  the New York School of painters and poets. She was celebrated for her ade
 pt use of color\, evoking the natural world. A published poet at the age o
 f 10\, Mitchell grew up studying literature closely throughout her life\, 
 despite her commitment to abstraction in her canvases. Mitchell refused le
 gibility\, often working on multiple panels which she arranged and rearran
 ged.\n\nAs part of Monumental Connection\, this poetry reading is presente
 d in partnership with Three Fold\, an online arts journal. The evening bri
 ngs together New York–based poet Eléna Rivera\, whose work with Three F
 old has engaged the paintings of Joan Mitchell\, and Detroit-based poet Ch
 ris Tysh for a program of readings in dialogue with art and place.\n\nElé
 na Rivera was born in Mexico City\, raised in Paris\, France\, and is base
 d in New York City. Rivera has a particular connection to Mitchell\, as sh
 e already published poems for Joan Mitchell’s work in Three Fold. She 
 is the author of several poetry collections\, including Arrangements wi
 th Peter Hughes (2022)\, Epic Series (2020)\, Scaffolding (2017)\, and
  The Perforated Map (2011). She received a National Endowment for the A
 rts Literature Fellowship in Translation\, and was a recent recipient of f
 ellowships from MacDowell (2020)\, Trelex Paris Poetry Residency (2019)
  and the SHOEN Foundation (2016).\n\nChris Tysh is a poet\, playwright\,
  and author of twelve books. She holds fellowships from The National Endow
 ment for the Arts and The Kresge Foundation\, as well as a Murray Jackson 
 Creative Scholar in the Arts Award from Wayne State University where she t
 eaches writing. She is the poetry editor of Three Fold\, and lives in Detr
 oit\, Michigan.\nThis event is free with museum admission.
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CATEGORIES:Monumental Color: Cecily Brown Sam Gilliam and Joan
 Mitchell ,Performance
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, Larson Gallery\, 39221 Woodward Ave\, Bloom
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