Spring Break
'Look! Literature!' art show in Wilbur Cross
Tina Forbes
Issue date: 3/21/05 Section: Focus
"Look! Literature!," the fourth annual Writing Center art show, is on display in the Wilbur Cross building from now until April 15. There was an opening reception Sunday afternoon for the show at the Wilbur Cross gallery, attended mainly by members of the English department, and interested spectators passing through the building.
The interactive show, which was collaboration between the student literary magazine Long River Review, the UConn Writing Center and the art department, is essentially a gigantic aluminum wall of magnetic poetry, consisting of words by famous poets. Emily Dickinson's "Much Madness is Divinest Sense," William Carlos William's "This is Just to Say" and Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" are the poems used. Each day, the poems begin in their original state, but are gradually rearranged by passer-bys throughout the day.
Ken Cormier of the Writing Center was one of the main organizers of the reception and show and explained how the gallery will progress until it is dismantled in mid-April. Cormier said lines and designs created by students will be photographed each day and posted around the gallery - about 10 new photos will be added every day. An example of one of the photographs is; "You're a big mean yeasty elephant! Forgive me - I'm mad."
The original poems are posted beside the display for reference.
"Writing and revising, if you start out with literature, who knows what you'll come up with?" Cormier said.
"This show is something that we're most proud of because it's so interactive and so fun," Laurie Cella, co-director of the Writing Center, said. "The biggest goal [of the show] is publicizing the Writing Center ... [the Writing Center is] in the CLAS and CUE buildings."
The center helps advise students on their work during any point during the writing process, for more info check out www.writingcenter.uconn.edu.
"I think it's fun, I'm interested to see what people come up with cause there's so many possibilities," Sarah Culbreth, a 2nd-semester pharmacy major said.
Kate Bojanek, a 6th-semester English major from Long River Review said a lot of people have been coming through the gallery and the poems are rearranged twice a day and photographed.
By the middle of the reception, Dickinson, Plath and Williams had already been rearranged into lines such as, "I'm sweet with madness," "that probably means you're a lemur," and "I have eaten an elephant - I'm fat, forgive me."
"Look! Literature!" was co-sponsored by Long River Review and the Aetna Foundation.
The interactive show, which was collaboration between the student literary magazine Long River Review, the UConn Writing Center and the art department, is essentially a gigantic aluminum wall of magnetic poetry, consisting of words by famous poets. Emily Dickinson's "Much Madness is Divinest Sense," William Carlos William's "This is Just to Say" and Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" are the poems used. Each day, the poems begin in their original state, but are gradually rearranged by passer-bys throughout the day.
Ken Cormier of the Writing Center was one of the main organizers of the reception and show and explained how the gallery will progress until it is dismantled in mid-April. Cormier said lines and designs created by students will be photographed each day and posted around the gallery - about 10 new photos will be added every day. An example of one of the photographs is; "You're a big mean yeasty elephant! Forgive me - I'm mad."
The original poems are posted beside the display for reference.
"Writing and revising, if you start out with literature, who knows what you'll come up with?" Cormier said.
"This show is something that we're most proud of because it's so interactive and so fun," Laurie Cella, co-director of the Writing Center, said. "The biggest goal [of the show] is publicizing the Writing Center ... [the Writing Center is] in the CLAS and CUE buildings."
The center helps advise students on their work during any point during the writing process, for more info check out www.writingcenter.uconn.edu.
"I think it's fun, I'm interested to see what people come up with cause there's so many possibilities," Sarah Culbreth, a 2nd-semester pharmacy major said.
Kate Bojanek, a 6th-semester English major from Long River Review said a lot of people have been coming through the gallery and the poems are rearranged twice a day and photographed.
By the middle of the reception, Dickinson, Plath and Williams had already been rearranged into lines such as, "I'm sweet with madness," "that probably means you're a lemur," and "I have eaten an elephant - I'm fat, forgive me."
"Look! Literature!" was co-sponsored by Long River Review and the Aetna Foundation.