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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\, a local nonprofit arts journal. The eve
 ning brings together New York–based poet Eléna Rivera\, whose work with
  Three Fold has engaged the paintings of Joan Mitchell\, and Detroit-based
  poet Chris Tysh for a program of readings in dialogue with art and place.
 \n\nEléna Rivera was born in Mexico City\, raised in Paris\, France\, and
  is based in New York City. Rivera has a particular connection to Mitchell
 \, as she already published poems for Joan Mitchell’s work in Three Fol
 d. She is the author of several poetry collections\, including Arrangem
 ents with Peter Hughes (2022)\, Epic Series (2020)\, Scaffolding (201
 7)\, and The Perforated Map (2011). She received a National Endowment f
 or the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation\, and was a recent recipi
 ent of fellowships from MacDowell (2020)\, Trelex Paris Poetry Residency
  (2019) and the SHOEN Foundation (2016).\n\nChris Tysh is a poet\, playw
 right\, and author of twelve books. She holds fellowships from The Nationa
 l Endowment for the Arts and The Kresge Foundation\, as well as a Murray J
 ackson Creative Scholar in the Arts Award from Wayne State University wher
 e she teaches writing. She is the poetry editor of Three Fold\, and lives 
 in Detroit\, 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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