San Diego Museum of Art Summer Salon Series
Thursday, June 24, 2010
7 pm
In conjunction with Agitprop Gallery, the Agitprop Reading Series is collaborating with the San Diego Museum of Art to present Thursday Summer Salons featuring contemporary artists and writers from Southern California. Museum admission is $12 for adults, $8 for students with college ID, and open to the public.
This Thursday, June 24, at 7 pm, writers Mark Wallace and K. Lorraine Graham will read from their recent work.
Mark Wallace is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and essays. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections, Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, and A Poetics of Criticism. Most recently he has published a short story collection, Walking Dreams (2007), and a book of poems, Felonies of Illusion (2008). Forthcoming in early 2011 is his second novel, The Quarry and The Lot.
K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Terminal Humming (Edge Books, 2009) and several chapbooks, including Large Waves to Large Obstacles, forthcoming from Take-Home Project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Traffic, Area Sneaks, Foursquare and elsewhere. She currently lives in San Diego with her partner, Mark Wallace, and Lester Young, a pacific parrotlet.
During your visit will be able to explore the works of living artists and writers, participate in hands-on art making activities, enjoy a cocktail, and view the Museum's current exhibitions and collections. We invite the public to join some of the most exciting artists working in Southern California and immerse themselves in what's happening right now in our local art scene.
Artist Presentations will be occurring in the museum before and after the reading.
Judith Pedroza will recreate the block where she grew up in Mexico City in scale model with her work Marina Nacional 80. Visitors will be invited to help her expand the work throughout the evening by adding additional buildings and roads.
And Michael Trigilio will present one of his video works. Michael is a founding member of the independent radio project Neighborhood Public Radio, which was featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Directions and parking information are available on the SDMA website.
For more information about the Summer Salon Series, please visit: http://sdma.balboaparkonline.org/programs-events/summer-salon-series
ReplyDeleteI hope the reading went well!
That "forthcoming" Outside Voices chapbook part of the publicity here is probably a bit optimistic, wouldn't you agree?
I say that as one who if I remember right, bought it about three years ago, when it was also forthcoming, and who just probably silly-ly bought another, not remembering that I'd bought one before and in any event not realizing where it was "forthcoming" from.
I'm a big fan (by which I mean reader) of Smith, but I'd lay long, long odds on her publishing any poetry in the next few months. And since it has been three years since Graham's and other other chaps were supposed to be issued, it *might* be time to strike that one from the list, at least as it was envisioned by that publisher.
I hope I'm wrong.