Please join us for a unique event featuring poet Josie Emmons Turner & MoNA's Executive Director Stefano Catalani!
The program will begin in the Benaroya Glass Gallery with a walkthrough of selected pieces from William Turner: Conversations with the Elders. The second half of the event will invite visitors to a personal, poetic space in the upstairs galleries as Josie Emmons Turner reads her poetry, which pays homage to William Turner while exploring the universal themes of art and why we create.
This day will also mark the launch of the William Turner: Conversations with the Elders exhibition catalogue, which will be available for purchase in the MoNA Store, along with Josie Emmons Turner's book More Blue.
Photo credit: Trina Jones
Cost: Free for members | Suggested $15 donation for non-members
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About Josie Emmons Turner & More Blue:
Josie Emmons Turner's is a contributing writer to West Sound Magazine, and her poetry has been well published, including in The Madrona Project: The Empty Bowl Cookbook; The Madrona Project: Art in the Public Voice; The Examined Life, A Western Washington Poets Network Anthology; Collateral; California Quarterly, High Shelf Press X; and Poets Choice: Now That You Are Gone From This World. She served as a Poet Laureate for the city of Tacoma 2011-2013, and she regularly teaches writing workshops. Turner received her MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and has worked in the fields of arts and cultural administration for the government and non-profits, as well as in public education. She also administers the artistic legacy of her late husband Northwest painter, William Turner. Josie Emmons Turner resides on a salmon spawning estuary that feeds into the Salish Sea.
“More Blue by Josie Emmons Turner takes your imagination on a world tour with stops in India, Sudan, Egypt, Spain, Vienna, Paris and the US West Coast. And in doing this, she writes with the grace of “a caressing wing” about a loving couple navigating the stark terrain of mortal illness, a compelling and stirring reminder that “Now//is the best we have.” As throughout certain novels by William Faulkner or poetry collections like Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt, this book offers several points of view. Turner gives voice to her late husband the artist, to a wife in love then in mourning, and to that husband during a war which was enough to make anyone “think/the whole damn world [had] gone just/completely nuts.” The tenderness this couple shared is echoed in the language (of every poem) that is at once intimate, mournful, sincere and joyous.” — Allen Braden: Author of “A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood” (University of Georgia Press)
General Amenities and Accessibility Information
The facility is wheelchair accessible and an elevator is available in the back of the building
A wheelchair is available for visitors
Limited seating is provided throughout the galleries and studio space
Restrooms are available on both floors of the museum. Changing tables are available in the restrooms on the 2nd floor and an all-gender restroom is available on the 1st floor of the museum
Please email us at info@museumofnwart.org or call us at (360) 466-4446 if you have questions or need additional information about accessibility