HONEY, BABY’s gonna be a swore-ay for eyes and ears! There will be POETRY with SEAN SINGER and LAURA ROCKHOLD! And there will be ART by EMILY DONOVAN, RITA KIRSCH Dungey, and ALLISON JOHANSON!
PAINTERS
EMILY DONOVAN is a Minneapolis-based artist who uses natural materials in her art and explores interactions in nature and the origins of color and pigments. Emily studied natural sources for color internationally in Europe and Peru and enjoys collaborating and foraging materials locally. Her award-winning work is shown nationally in galleries and art centers. She holds degrees in Visual Arts and Art History from the University of Minnesota.
RITA KIRSCH DUNGEY's non-representational paintings combine bold forms, colors and textures intuitively and expressively to create lush, free, energetic images. Rita devoted herself to creating art 16 years ago after a career in clinical social work and yoga instruction. Helping others remains 1he foundation of her artistic practice-she sees art as a life-giving force and conduit for health and healing. Rita's work has been exhibited and collected locally, nationally, and internationally.
ALLISON JOHANSON creates large-scale paintings in her MinneaP,olis studio in the Northrup King Building. Her intuitive artworks are rooted in the natural world, influenced by the Northern Minnesota lakes and landscapes of her youth. Allison communicates emotion through her use of color, raw textures, and energetic brushstrokes to create work that ins 1res connection. Her most recent lyrical and tonal compositions explore movement, stillness, solitude, and delight.
POETS
JENNIFER L. KNOX is the author of five books of poems, most recently Crushing It (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Pushcart Prize 2020: Best of the Small Presses, and five times in The Best American Poetry series. Jennifer lives in central Iowa, where she teaches poetry writing classes online and runs a tiny spice blend company.
LAURA ROCKHOLD is a poet, visual artist, and inventor of the golden root poetic form. She is a recipient of the Bring Back The Prairies Award, the Southern MN Poets Society Award, and several International Academy of Visual Arts and Hermes Creative Awards. Her work is published internationally and will be exhibited at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2024. Previously, Laura was an art gallery director at Veronique Wantz Gallery in Minneapolis.
SEAN SINGER is the author of Discography, (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America· Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022) which won the 2b22 National Jewish Book award. He runs a manuscript consultation service at
