Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr.
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The next artsXchange event presented by River Arts Alliance (RAA) at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) will be led by RAA member Jim Armstrong and entitled Try Everything: A Multi-Media Approach to Creative Writing. Armstrong says, “A writer is not just someone who sits at a keyboard: the full use of the imagination requires multiple aesthetic adventures. Poetry especially exists at the intersection of the visual, the musical and the linguistic; it benefits from the immediate tactile experience provided by the fine arts and also the practical arts. As a poet I have learned traditional penmanship, pursued drawing in various media, engaged in a daily photographic practice, experimented with putting poems to music, and learned to design and hand-sew chapbooks. All these pursuits have helped enliven my arts practice and kept me from being ‘stuck.’ This program will follow several projects as they move from daily writing through to finished work and will show how journaling, sketching, photography, musical composition, and book making contributed to the final product. The working assumption is that a writer should not be afraid to try new media and that the adventure of acquiring a new artistic skill can keep one nimble and generative.”

This event is free to attend for members of RAA or MMAM, and included with museum admission for others. (Museum admission is free for students on Thursdays.) Registration is required, and space is limited to 25 attendees per program. Learn more.