Join Kelvin Smith Library, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Arianna Papai—painting student at the Cleveland Institute of Art—for a blackout poetry crafting event in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Blackout poetry is a unique style of poetry where the poet takes already written material, like a book page, and blacks out everything except for selected words. The remaining words on the page create a poem or story, sometimes with an entirely different meaning. At this event, you will have an opportunity to tell your story by creating your own blackout poetry. Additional craft supplies such as markers, colored pencils, collage and button-making will be provided.
Papai is majoring in painting and participating in the Creativity Works Program funded by the Fenn Educational Fund and G.R. Lincoln Family Foundation. They will be facilitating the event, creating custom giveaways for a raffle and exhibiting a collection of paintings titled “Laced with Love,” which focuses on the experiences of being a femme-presenting person.
This in-person event will be held on Friday, April 26, 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Art Gallery at Kelvin Smith Library.