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SUMMARY:"The Unauthorized Audubon" Reading and Reception with Anita Skeen and Laura DeLind
DESCRIPTION:
 In an age of experts and individualism, metrics 
 and competition, The Unauthorized Audubon is 
 something of an anachronism. In fact, its creators, 
 printmaker Laura B. DeLind and poet 
 Anita Skeen, never set out to produce a book 
 at all when they began exchanging prints and 
 poems, but something happened along the way. 
 As they began to appreciate at a deeper level 
 the skill involved in each other's work, they 
 began to find meaning in small things-a pattern, 
 a memory, a carefully chosen word. In his 
 essay "Plugging into Essential Sources," Eric 
 Booth introduces the concept of "response-ability." 
 He describes it as the capacity to 
 connect with the artful work of another. It 
 represents both our need and our promise to respond 
 in an open, eager, and multi-sensual way 
 to a world of possibility. Without this capacity 
 we are crippled in our ability to imagine 
 and to grow. This book is all about response-ability 
 as experienced by the two artists 
 and the visitors to an exhibit of their work 
 at the Michigan State University Museum. This 
 concept and activity animates the twenty-two 
 bird-like spirits found herein, reminding us 
 that there are other such spirits hovering 
 expectantly just beyond the pages, simply waiting 
 for the imagining.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/\n
 Contact phone: 5178841932\n
 Contact email: cpoetry@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:RCAH LookOut! Gallery
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