Kim Stafford Presents Lecture and Workshops as Anderson Endowment Speaker
February 09, 2006
Kim Stafford, founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, will give a public lecture at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art. Following his lecture, Stafford will host a workshop in 201b Patterson Building as well as a second one on Friday, February 17 at 11:30 a.m. in the same location. His lecture and workshops are sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts John M. Anderson Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and are free to the public.
Stafford’s lecture, titled “The Artist as Scribe to the Prophet,” will be a celebration of the arts of listener, observer and benign thief of images and ideas. Following this talk and conversation, the workshop on Thursday will be titled “Things I Learned Last Week,” a time to practice the art of sweeping one’s most recent and quirky learning into a sense of abundance for the creative process. On Friday, the workshop will be “De Que Te Dedicas?” (‘to what do you dedicate yourself?’), an exploration of one’s most lasting devotions in the life of art, and practice in honoring essential gifts.
Kim Stafford has taught at Lewis & Clark College since 1979, where he directs the Northwest Writing Institute and the William Stafford Center. He has taught writing for artists at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, and served as visiting writer at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. His most recent books include The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft, and the edition Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War.
Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu