Collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center

FamilySpaces at SPACES, Cleveland, OH., 2017

 

As a part of the First 100 + Days exhibition, Home Affairs and the Wick Poetry Center of Kent State University collaborated on an inventive and playful workshop for people of all ages. Participants attending Family Spaces, a monthly workshop sponsored by the gallery, were encouraged to create an 'emerge poem' using excerpts from the poems in our installation, Black-eyed Women.  Using an iPad with an innovative app called "Emerge", participants created new poems by touching particular words on the screen allowing them to 'emerge' (bold-face) from the original poem (which receded) thus creating their own new poem from the original.​

The Wick Poetry Center and Home Affairs proudly stand together to advocate for the caring and compassionate treatment of refugees through the intimate and inclusive voice of poetry.​