What’s happening

Wordplay features artists who use text as an integral element of their creative practice in printmaking and print based media. The work in this exhibit illustrates the charged relationships between images, text, formats and their context. Pulling from popular forms of advertising and display, ordinary written notes, reinterpretations of existing texts, to forceful political statements, these artists play with the familiarity of text to unexpected ends.

The widespread enthusiasm for mass timber is evident, and for good reason. Companies are pivoting to mass timber to reduce their carbon footprint, provide biophilic benefits to the building occupants, increase the speed of construction, reduce onsite labor and frankly just to create beautiful architecture.

For this month’s open mic the three finalists for the Campus Civic Poet Award have been invited to be featured readers. The CCP Award is offered by the English Department in partnership with the MLK Program and recognizes a student’s commitment to poetry and civic engagement. The English Department open mic meets the 2nd Thursday of each month. All are invited to read and/or share work.