Smart Museum: Part I - Poetry Workshop

Smart Museum of Art

Smart Museum: Part I - Poetry Workshop

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Add to Calendar 2021-04-22 12:00:00 2021-04-22 13:30:00 Smart Museum: Part I - Poetry Workshop This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry. In Part 1, Maggie Queeney and Dorian Nash will lead a lunchtime reading and discussion of an excerpt of Ovid’s poetry alongside a contemporary poem influenced by The Metamorphoses. Together, we will write our own poems exploring our connections to myth and transformation. Please click here to register for the workshop. Image: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo (detail), c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45. Zoom Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry.

In Part 1, Maggie Queeney and Dorian Nash will lead a lunchtime reading and discussion of an excerpt of Ovid’s poetry alongside a contemporary poem influenced by The Metamorphoses. Together, we will write our own poems exploring our connections to myth and transformation.

Please click here to register for the workshop.

Image: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo (detail), c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45.