415 W 4th St
Bloomington, IN 47404
USA
Rikki Ducornet art opening & reading of her work
Sponsored by the Wounded Galaxies Festival
Part of the 1968: Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach festival + symposium
In addition to Rikki’s art, we will have readings of her work by Ross Gay, Chris Mattingly, Jennifer Moore, Joan Hawkins, and many others.
FREE
6 pm – OPENING of Rikki Ducornet’s exhibition of prints
7 pm – READING of Rikki Ducornet’s writings by local poets
The author of nine novels, three collections of short fiction, two books of essays and five books of poetry, Rikki Ducornet has received both a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award For Fiction. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters award and, in 2008, an Academy Award in Literature. She has illustrated books by Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, Forrest Gander, Kate Bernheimer, Joanna Howard and Anne Waldman among others. Her collected papers including prints and drawings are in the permanent collection of the Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. In addition, solo exhibitions of her paintings have been mounted in the U.S., Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica, and Canada. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago Chile, The McMaster University Museum, Ontario, Canada, and The Biblioteque Nationale, Paris.
Full festival + symposium schedule at:
http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/woundedgalaxies/