October 24, 2016 – December 16, 2016
Museum of the White Mountains, Main Gallery
Opening Reception: October 26, 5-7pm
This exhibit pairs contemporary professional New England regional poets and printmakers with PSU student work with the common theme of responding to the White Mountains as a place.
Parker Potter, Co-Curator statement
One of the great joys of hanging an art show is setting up “conversations” between and among the individual pieces in the show. The special joy in hanging this show was coming to realize things about the subject of the show — the White Mountains — that I hadn’t really thought about before. For one thing, the works in this show made me think about perspective.
One common perspective on the White Mountains is the perspective of the hiker, who experiences the mountains along a trail, one step at a time. That perspective is well represented in this show, occupying one whole wall.
There are also prints and poems in this show that take a much grander view of the White Mountains, from a philosophical or even god-like perspective. And then there are artistic views that focus much more closely on the smallest of things that may be found in the mountains.
Among the different perspectives represented here, is an idea of movement and interaction. Perhaps the most unexpected revelation may be seen on the opposite long wall, which is filled with images and poems that focus on water and waterfalls. Those views reinforce the idea that even as they are solid and imposing, the White Mountains — like all mountains — are anything but static; they are at all times dynamic. Hikers climbing up, water flowing down, and all of it captured here, on paper, in words and images.
Cynthia Robinson
Lesson Plans (pdf)
- Exhibit Visit Experience
- Pass the Paper and Print hands on activity
- Aesthetic Scanning: Lesson Plan Information for Teachers
- Aesthetic Scanning worksheet
- Responding with Words and Images
Poetry
Finding Place on Paper: Contemporary Poets Explore the White Mountains (pdf)
The MWM is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
