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Deupi, Jill J

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Fairfield University DigitalCommons@Fairfield ekphrasis i - Ephemera ekphrasis i: Jeanne deLarm-Neri (MFA '12) 5-11-2011 ekphrasis i Press Release Martha Milcarek Fairfield University, mmilcarek@fairfield.edu Jill J. Deupi Fairfield University, jdeupi@fairfield.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/ekphrasis-i-ephemera Recommended Citation Milcarek, Martha and Deupi, Jill J., "ekphrasis i Press Release" (2011). ekphrasis i - Ephemera. 4. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/ekphrasis-i-ephemera/4 This item has been accepted for inclusion in DigitalCommons@Fairfield by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Fairfield. It is brought to you by DigitalCommons@Fairfield with permission from the rights-holder(s) and is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@fairfield.edu.  Media Contact:  Martha Milcarek  203-254-4190 mmilcarek@fairfield.edu   Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum of Art Launches  New Summer Exhibition June 15   ekphrasis provides a wonderful opportunity to collaborate across the curriculum FAIRFIELD, Conn., May 11, 2011 - Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum of Art will launch an exciting new summer exhibition, ekphrasis, on June 15, 2011.  Taking as its premise the ancient technique of responding to visual works of art through the written word (“ekphrasis”), this show provides a unique platform for graduate students in Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing program (http://www.fairfield.edu/mfa) to showcase newly created “ekphrastic” works of poetry and prose.  Envisioned by museum director, Jill Deupi, J.D., Ph.D., as an annual event, ekphrasis i highlights the work of poet and author Jeanne Delarm-Neri (MFA 12), who has created six new poems that respond directly to works in the Bellarmine Museum’s collections. From a delicate 14th-century French ivory diptych (on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters) to plaster casts after masterworks from the Parthenon frieze, DeLarm-Neri engages with a broad cross-section of objects in the museum. Deupi said: “Such writings give voice to a very personal aesthetic experience, which in turn provides our visitors with new points of departure for their own interpretations and musings. For example, Ms. Delarm-Neri writes of an 18th-century work, by the Neapolitan master Paolo de’Matteis, Andromeda and Perseus:  ‘They fly to the twisted city./They deposit the heads of monsters.’ Such evocative language encourages us to focus on details in the painting we might otherwise overlook, and to think anew about the myths, legends and episodes from history with which we may already be familiar. These poems similarly remind us of the close ties that have bound the literary and the visual arts throughout history; above all, during antiquity. Perhaps most importantly ekphrasis provides the Bellarmine Museum with a wonderful opportunity to collaborate across the curriculum, a key component of Fairfield University’s Strategic Plan.”    Professor Michael White, program director of the MFA in Creative Writing and distinguished author of six novels, including “Beautiful Assassin” and “Soul Catcher,” concurs, noting: “The museum is an untapped resource permitting our students not only the pleasure of viewing, but the inspirational vehicle to enter into the creative act themselves.”   DeLarm-Neri’s poems will be displayed throughout the museum’s galleries next to the objects they address.  They will also be posted on the BMA’s website together with images of the relevant works.  ekphrasis i: jeanne delarm-neri (mfa ‘12) continues through September 15, 2011. For further information, please see www.fairfield.edu/museum.    The Bellarmine Museum’s Summer Hours are as follows: June, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., no appointment necessary. July and August, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., prior appointment necessary.  Phone: 203-254-4046 or email: museum@fairfield.edu).        -###- Fairfield University offers its students and the regional community a wide array of opportunities to enjoy the arts and enrich their lives through study, performance, appreciation, and thought.  The annual Arts & Minds season of events at Fairfield provides an outstanding array of cultural and intellectual events that include the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts season, the popular Open VISIONS Forum lecture series, professional and student performances, art exhibits, special lectures, and a myriad of other lifelong learning opportunities. For further information check www.fairfield.edu/arts. Vol. 43, No. 302    

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