Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days - Softcover

Wilson, Carletta Carrington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735478024 ISBN 13: 9781735478029

Verlag: The Raven Chronicles, 2023

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Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days documents four site-specific installations Carletta Carrington Wilson created in 2011 on the Seattle property of noted African American sculptor James W. Washington Jr. The book evolved out of Wilson's time as an artist-in-residence at the Dr. James and Janie Washington Studio and Cultural Center in the Central District of Seattle, Washington. This house, located at 1816 26th Avenue, honors the life and legacy of Washington, a celebrated African American painter and sculptor and a leading member of the Northwest School of artists. He and his wife, Janie R. Washington, lived there from 1945 to 2000 (they both died in 2000). We read of her discovery of the landscape around the house, the garden, the stones, the wood, the still unfinished stone sculptures, and, in the house itself, the slave chains, the slave galleon, and so much more. The books in the library, together with the stones in the garden and her installations in the house, created an intensely spiritual experience for those of us fortunate enough to have joined her there for the public exhibition. The installation included bones, as well as shoe soles, eggshells, photographs of Washington working, and quotes from some of his interviews.

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Carletta Carrington Wilson is a literary and visual artist. Her poems and literary works have appeared in a number of publications, including African American Review, Calyx Journal, Make It True: Poems from Cascadia, Cimarron Review, Obsidian III, The Seattle Review, Raven Chronicles, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, The Journal: Book Club of Washington, Pilgrimage, Uncommon Waters: Women Write About Fishing, and Seattle Poets and Photographers: A Millennium Reflection; and online in Rattapallax: Innovative Northwest Poets and Torch. Recent poems were published in African American Review, Raven Chronicles' Last Call, and Stealing Light: A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work, 1991-1996. Her artwork has been exhibited at Wa Na Wari, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, CoCA, King Street Station, the Elisabeth C. Miller Horticultural Library, ArtXchange Gallery, the Kittredge Art Gallery, and the Collins Library at the University of Puget Sound; University of Washington's Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Denver Public Library, The Washington State Convention Center, Northwest African American Museum, Pacific Lutheran University Art Gallery, Columbia City Gallery, the Onyx Fine Arts Exhibition, and the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Raven Chronicles
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1735478024
• ISBN 13: 9781735478029
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166
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