presents
writer David Matlin
visual artist Chris Morrey
Saturday, January 19, 7 pm, Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Admission: $5; Students $3
David Matlin is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His collections of poetry and prose include the books China Beach, Dressed In Protective Fashion, and Fontana's Mirror. How the Night is Divided, Matlin's first novel, was nominated for a National Book Circle Critics Award. His newest book, Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America, is based on his nearly ten year experience teaching in one of the oldest Prison Education Programs in the nation in New York State. This extended essay is a discussion of the crisis of prisons, the invention of surplus populations, and how, in making prison our largest growth industry, we are mining our own civil disintegrations at an unprecedented level. Matlin received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he studied with Robert Creeley, John Clarke, and Angus Fletcher. He lives in San Diego.
Chris Morrey was born in Edmonton, Canada and attended the Kansas City Art Institute. He is a painter and sculptor who has worked with wood, carbon fiber, found objects, stone, and concrete; his work reflects interests in human and animal anatomy, natural history, and building, furniture, and tool design. Selected exhibits include New Art Mix: New Works by Member Artists, Dinnerware Gallery; Assemblage, Found Objects and Sculpture, Apparatus Gallery, Tucson; Installation and performance at The Green Room, Austin, Texas; The Seven-Year Anatomy, Arttrek Gallery, Flagstaff; the Kansas City Art Institute Gallery; Group sculpture exhibit at the Sedalia Fairgrounds, Sedalia, Missouri; and a group video exhibit, Pumpkin Etiquette, at the Kansas City Art Institute Gallery. Morrey’s public sculpture includes the Coronado K-8 School ballfield improvement and the Purple Heart Park Phase III skateboard park. He is currently President of Dinnerware Cooperative Gallery.
POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Extended University Writing Works Center, The University of Arizona Department of English, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, and Chax Press.
We also thank the following POG supporters: Patron Austin Publicover; Sponsors Maggie Golston, Mary Rising Higgins, Tenney Nathanson, and Frances Sjoberg.
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