This painting depicts a seascape scene in muted tones, its background a washed-out, cloudy sky with a blurred ship in the distance. The middle ground consists of a pastel-toned rocky bank and sea. In the foreground, four men are docked in a small…
In subject matter if not in style, there are resemblances between this painting and Georges Seurat’s famous A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, but even more so William Blake’s “The Echoing Green.” Here the spirit seems exuberant as the painting's…
This cottage has a long history, almost entirely due to the writer Edgar Allan Poe and his wife, Virginia Clemm, occupying it at the end of their lives and in poor health. The building lay in neglect, eventually was moved, and now is preserved by the…
Poet Janine Pommy Vega facilitated dozens of writing workshops during her time with Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS), whether located in farm labor camps or other sites where migrant workers could access. This session was held at the…
These five poems date to an early proposal for a 1986 exhibition staged by the Geneseo Migrant Center (GMC). All had been published previously in collections of poetry; for African Past, Migrant Present they were to be paired with black & white…