Creative Arts & Event Center
2 West Main Street, 2nd Floor
Greenfield, IN 46140
Monday, September 27, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Black and White and Read All Over
Black and White and Read All Over
On Friday, October 8, deep in the (telltale) heart of Greenfield’s Riley Festival, the Artists Upstairs will pay tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, who died on October 7, 1849. The tribute, “Black and White and Read All Over”, will be a combination of performance art and group painting. From 7:30 PM to 9 PM, five teams of artists will meet in front of the Creative Arts and Event Center at 2 West Main Street to paint five blood red canvases using only black and white as their palette colors. Each team is free to choose their own style and methods, from abstract expressionism to realism, but all their choices must refer to Poe and his work. Even the soundtrack played in the background will echo Poe, his works and the long tradition of the macabre in popular music from the author’s time to the present day. Selected paintings from the evening will hang in the Hancock Public Library during the month of October. The evening is sponsored by the Hancock County Public Library and the Creative Arts and Events Center.
Friday's performance is the final event of the Hancock Public Library’s own “Black and White and Read All Over” Edgar Allan Poe celebration, which naturally concentrates on the more literary aspects of Poe. But Poe has inspired much art throughout the years, from Leonard Bernstein’s symphonic “Tales of Edgar Allan Poe” to the Simpson’s wacky interpretation of “The Raven” where “Nevermore” becomes “eat my shorts”. Similarly motivated, the Artists Upstairs, which is an association of fifteen artists who have studios on the second floor of the Creative Arts and Event Center, is looking forward to their public tribute to Mr. Poe, the dark genius of American literature and to sharing a bottle of Amontillado amongst themselves afterwards.
Synopsis:
Black and White and Read All Over:
A Group Painting Performance in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe by The Artists Upstairs (the studio artists in the Creative Arts and Event Center)
When: Friday, October 8, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9 PM
Where:
Creative Arts and Event Center
2 West Main St., Greenfield
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