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Presented Friday, November 6th, 2020 | 7:00 PM CDT \ 8:00 PM CST
Thank you to everyone that attended The Lit Show: Chapter 3, a literary art show and live author and artist presentations. Please check out the video from the event as well as the artwork created for the show that was inspired by the works of authors Benjamin Garcia, Nate Marshall and Kathleen Rooney. Authors discussed and read from their latest books. ArtBar artists were paired with authors to create unique pieces of art based on the author’s work. Artists presented their pieces. We had two events taking place • Author & Artist Presentations • Online Literary Themed Art Exhibition This event was free to attend and open to the public and all GLIBA members. No RSVP required. Author & Artist Pairings: Author Benjamin Garcia with artist Alfredo Castil Author Nate Marshall with artist Deepayan Bose Author Kathleen Rooney with artist Jenn Wilson * Poster by illustrator Christoper Mitten Featured Titles |
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Featured Auhtors
Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2018, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
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Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer, rapper, educator, and editor. He is the author and editor of numerous works including Wild Hundreds and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Nate is a member of The Dark Noise Collective and co-directs Crescendo Literary. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. He is from the South Side of Chicago.
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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Her most recent books include the novel Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin’s Press, 2017) and The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte (Spork Press, 2018). Her World War I novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey was just published by Penguin in August, and her criticism appears in The New York Times Magazine, The Poetry Foundation website, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul.
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Featured Artists
Alfredo Castil
Alfredo Castil is a painter and mixed media artist based out of Chicago and Aurora, IL. Alfredo likes hot pinks, bright blues and yellows almost as much as he hates artist bios. Insta: @fredoversal |
Deepayan Bose
Deepayan Bose is a visual artist/designer from the Chicago suburbs. Inspired by folklore from a young age as well as pop culture, his work is at the intersection of stories new and old. Insta: @dbose |
Jenn Wilson
Jenn Wilson is a multimedia artist and writer based in the Chicago area. Photography and graphic design were her first loves in the visual arts. Over the years, her path has expanded to include more tactile (and often much messier) media, including analog and historical process photography, printmaking, and illustration. When she's not creating stuff, gaming with her family, or following bugs around in the garden, she works as an IT educator and project manager. Insta: @sutratwo Email: sutratwoart@gmail.com |
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Join us for the The Lit Show: Chapter 3! On Friday, November 6 ArtBar and GLIBA are co-hosting a literary themed art show with live author and artist presentations. Authors will be discussing live their latest books with readings. ArtBar artists have been paired with authors to create unique pieces of art based on the author’s work. Artists will present their pieces live. The live event will be streamed on Facebook at 7PM CDT.
We have two events taking place this evening. Author & Artist Presentations 7 - 8 PM CST / 8 - 9 PM EST Online Literary Themed Art Exhibition artbaraurora.com The event is free to attend and open to the public and all GLIBA members. No RSVP required. Author & Artist Pairings: Author Benjamin Garcia with artist Alfredo Castil Author Nate Marshall with artist Deepayan Bose Author Kathleen Rooney with artist Jenn Wilson * Poster by illustrator Christoper Mitten |
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Past Lit Shows
We have two events taking place that evening. A literary themed art exhibition will be showing the entire night and from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM live author readings will be taking place. The event is free to attend and open to all GLIBA members. No RSVP required. More information coming after the New Year.
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