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Painter/Poet Barry Nemett reading
Cosponsored by MFA Fine Arts and MFA Writing programs
Thursday, March 27, 4–6 pm
CCA Writers' Studio, San Francisco Campus
195 De Haro @ 15th Street
For additional information, call 415.551.9237 or email MFA Writing Program Manager Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu.
Internationally exhibited painting instructor and published poet Barry Nemett, painting department chair at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) since 1990, will give a slide-talk and read from his new novel, Crooked Tracks (Barnhardt & Ashe).
The slide-talk will explore the overlap of Nemett's twin passions: painting and writing. While it is not unusual for a painter to write poetry, essays, or criticism, Nemett is one of only a few to publish a work of sustained fiction.
Crooked Tracks is an unusual coming-of-age tale set in the 1960s that interweaves color reproductions of classical and contemporary masterworks with a compelling, intimate narrative. A book-signing will follow Nemett's slide-talk and reading.
In addition to his recent novel, he has written a textbook, Images, Objects, and Ideas: Viewing the Visual Arts (McGraw-Hill: 1992), and numerous catalogue, magazine, and journal articles.
Nemett has also curated numerous traveling exhibitions, as well as exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. His visiting-artist residencies have included the Art Institute of Chicago, New York Studio School, and Princeton University, as well as international programs in Italy, France, Scotland, and Japan.
His awards include a Ford Foundation grant to Italy and an ITT International Travel Fellowship/Fulbright Hays grant to Spain.
Nemett received his bachelor of fine arts degree at Pratt Institute and his master of fine arts degree at Yale University.
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