Poetry Dialog + Open Mic

Poetry Dialog + Open Mic

🌿 Poetry Readings from Featured Artists Shelley White, Deanna Pindell, and Leah Dalton
Saturday, December 6th · 6 PM (EST)
Hosted by WEAD: Women Eco Artists Dialog in partnership with The 109 Gallery

Join Artists Shelley White, Deanna Pindell and Leah Dalton in poetry and dialog. Bring your poetry to share. All formats welcomed, “all voices heard”. Presented virtually through Zoom and in person at The 109 Gallery in Historic Downtown Chickamauga, GA. Leah will be on-site at The 109 Gallery while Shelley and Deanna will share via zoom, we will screen the zoom in the gallery. All participates online or in-person are welcome to share, exchange across borders of cities, states, and countries poetry.

We will begin the evening hearing from the featured artists and then roll into an open mic format.

✨ This series is part of our exhibition on view online and in The 109 Gallery
About the Exhibition:
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent explores care, connection, and multispecies consent through the work of women artists worldwide. Presented by WEAD, the full exhibition is viewable online, with select works featured in person at The 109 Gallery.

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About the Artists

Shelley K. White is an artist, activist, public-health professor, and WEAD board member whose practice engages social and environmental injustices, especially in borderland contexts. Her work uses painting, collage, sculpture, poetry and found materials to explore migration, ecology and identity.

Deanna Pindell is a Washington-based eco-artist whose installations, sculpture and public art focus on forest and water-quality issues, indigenous rights, and community-science collaborations. She is featured in the exhibition and serves on WEAD’s exhibitions committee and board.

Leah Dalton is a curator and artist currently serving on WEAD’s exhibitions committee and Board. She is also an exhibiting artist in this series and the curator for this current exhibition. Her broad practice explores eco-feminist themes, community arts and material activism, and ecosexual studies.

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