Poets' Gallery

03/22/2017

Calling all artists! Tule Review needs more art for possible selection as the cover as well as internal art. It is free and easy to submit through submittable on our website, and there is no particular theme or style we are looking for. The deadline is May 1st. Please spread the word and share your art!

also became the flagship publication of Sacramento Poetry Center Press, a project formed by local poetry professors Tim Kahl and Brad Buchanan. SPC Press currently publishes

11/10/2016

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02/28/2016

Submissions (free) are open to local women artists tomorrow at the Sacramento Poetry Center Art Gallery, 2-5 pm. Hope to see you there!

01/20/2016

Call to Artists! E-mail curator Bethanie Humphreys at [email protected] and she will send you the prospectus. No fee to enter. Work does not have to be for sale.

March 1-26 Woman in the Convex Mirror: Women’s Self-Portraits:

Submission date: February 28, 2-5 pm at the Sacramento Poetry Center
Second Saturday Reception and Panel Discussion: March 12

This show was inspired partly as away to celebrate Women’s History Month, and partly because of a series of conversations I had had with other artists on the particular psychological difficulty that women particularly seem to face, not only in creating but also in valuing and showing self-portraits.

It is the discomfort, and questioning the role gender plays in the intent and purpose of self-portraits as fine art that I’m interested in.

Do gender roles somehow alter the motivation an artist may have for creating a self-portrait in the perception of viewers? Do women and other repressed groups feel the need to justify creating one?

How have the ways we view and interpret self-portraits changed through time with new technology, most recently with the growing popularity of the “selfie?”

I’m hoping to have some artists and possibly art historians gather to talk about these questions at the reception. I’m also hoping the self-portrait concept will be explored in other areas of art-poems that are self-portraits, interpretive dance as self-portraits, etc. If you have an idea for something along these lines, please share!

Message me your e-mail and I will send you the prospectus. No fee to enter. Work does not have to be for sale.

11/30/2015

Just a quick reminder, on Tuesday, December 1st from 3-6 p.m. submissions are open to the public for the Sacramento Poetry Center fundraiser art show titled ART HAIKU: A Small Works Invitational.

Artists can submit up to 3 pieces, no bigger than 12x12". There is no fee to enter. Artists can opt to donate a percentage of any sales to SPC.

Bring your art to the Sacramento Poetry Center at 1719 25th Street (in the theater complex at R & 25th), Sacramento, CA 95814.

ART HAIKU will run December 1 thru December 30, 2015, with a Second Saturday reception on December 12th. If you would like more information or need another copy of the prospectus, please e-mail me at [email protected]. Please feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested.

11/12/2015

You (and/or your favorite artist person) are cordially invited to enter the Sacramento Poetry Center fundraiser art show titled ART HAIKU: A Small Works Invitational. Submissions (up to 3 pieces, no bigger than 12x12") are open to the public. On December 1st from 3-6 pm. Bethanie Humphreys, curator for SPC, will be selecting pieces at the SPC Art Gallery.

Art Haiku will run December 1 thru December 30, 2015, with a Second Saturday reception on December 12th. If you would like more information, please e-mail Bethanie at [email protected], and she will send you the details.

Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

11/10/2015

Please join us at the Sacramento Poetry Center on November 14th, 5-8 pm, for the Second Saturday Reception for Poetic Form and Disorder, a juried show of encaustic works by Sierra Wax Artist members. There will be light refreshments and live music provided by Mantra!

10/22/2015

You are cordially invited to enter the Sacramento Poetry Center fundraiser art show titled ART HAIKU: A Small Works Invitational, curated by Bethanie Humphreys. Submissions are open to the public, and there is no entry fee. ART HAIKU will run December 1 thru December 30, 2015, with a Second Saturday reception on December 12th. If you would like more information, e-mail Bethanie at [email protected], and she will send you the details. Please feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested.

10/11/2015

Doug Rice at his Second Saturday reception this evening. Thanks to everyone who came out!

10/10/2015

Second Saturday Reception this weekend at SPC!
Reception: 5-8 pm
Artist Talk/Reading: 6:30 pm

SPC Art Gallery Presents: Apparitions of Phenomenological Desire
Photographs by Doug Rice

Apparitions of Phenomenological Desire

Every breath destroys the breath that preceded it.

These photographs explore such moments of breathing. They explore memories that haunt our bodies, our muscles, our bones, our breath, and our blood as we go about living our daily lives. Memories that cling to our souls. These photographs reveal the desire and beauty that is still possible, and remains visible, even while carrying our past with us.

Often we look into photographs as if we are searching for something that has been lost, something that disappeared or was stolen. We hope the photograph can unleash memories that will protect us from forgetting.

But all living is forgetting. A photograph is only a forgery of loss.
A photograph never remains innocent; a person’s eyes are too violent for that, often seeing destroys what could have become visible in the moment.

These photographs call into question the conventional relationship between the photographs and what they represent—offering instead a more complex, because less obvious, set of relations between image and what the image ostensibly refers to.

Too often, what we hope to see is all that we are ever capable of seeing.

08/15/2015

The Second Saturday Reception for Natalie Sakurai's Eye Contact Exhibit was lovely. Thank you to all who came out!