Crafting Words

press release: Come to a reception and poetry reading to open this short-term installation in Madison Public Library's Madison Room. Closing reception will be 7-8:30 pm on March 10, with reading following shortly after. The work will be available for viewing March 6th-10th during the regular library hours: Sunday 1-5pm; Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm.

Juliette Walker, a ceramic artist based in Madison, has been collaborating from afar with Sam Corfman, a poet based in Pittsburgh. Sam crafts the words into poetry, and then Juliette crafts the words into ceramic sculptures.

Juliette's ceramic work will be on display on the third floor of the Central Public Library beginning Sunday March 6th until the evening of Thursday March 10th. Sam will be joined by poet Lauren Russell who will also read her work. 

Juliette Walker was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and studied Studio Art at Pomona College. She is currently a Post Baccalaureate student in Ceramics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Combining the sculptural with the performative, her art practice is socially based and often takes form as events, installations, and interactions. http://www.juliettewalker.com

Sam Corfman is a MFA candidate in poetry living in Pittsburgh, by way of Chicago and Southern California. His chapbook An Opaque Flower Digging was a finalist for the Omnidawn & the Slope Editions chapbook prizes, and his poems appear or will appear in Prelude, Phantom, OmniVerse, and 1913: a journal of forms, among others.