Visual Poetry with Alex Patrick Dyk

Join us on Wednesday, April 12 from 12-2pm for “Visual Poetry” a workshop presented in collaboration with the Hudson Area Library.

Visual Poetry is an all ages workshop centered on uses of text and visual poetics in art. We will look at some examples from artists past and present and then use a variety of materials and methods to create our own pieces of visual poetry. All are welcome to experiment and collaborate in a playful and fun setting.

Those who participate are welcome to take home their art pieces or have them included in an installation for Spark of Hudson's Hearth Day event on April 22!

This workshop is facilitated by Hudson-based artist, Alex Patrick Dyk, who is the April artist-in-residence at Basilica Hudson in conjunction with the Spark of Hudson HEART fund.

To register, email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org

Alex Patrick Dyck is a multimedia poet, splosh artist, frog man, storyteller, performer & medicine maker; a romantic hoarder of sentimental trash and trampled roses, an altar builder, memory gatherer, a seeker seeking. They work with the interaction of plants, dye, resin, textiles, refuse, movement, bodily fluids, text & hardware as a way to explore the life-death-life cycle of the natural world. They see art-making as a devotional act before the divine, imbued with the interlocking arms of desire and grief. Alex is the April artist-in-residence at Basilica Hudson in conjunction with the Spark of Hudson HEART Fund. They live, work and grow in Hudson, New York on occupied Mohican land.