One enchanted evening...

Karen Faris,  poet/writer/visual and experimental artist with bill berry, jr., CEO/Publisher aaduna Inc.

Currently, as a small city resident who is a Bronx transplant originally from the diverse, bustling and never sleeping New York City, a significant part of my current creative sensibilities {over the past 22 years} have been focused, rightfully so, on local creatives who can easily be artistically engaging on a larger platform. 

Interestingly, there are two such creatives whose work prompt me to deal with my own emotional upheaval and exhilaration that I do not expect when I see their work.  I just wonder, how did these two individuals become a critical core of my imagination. How did two women ignite my sense of wonderment? How did two women, one African-American and one white Canadian create an upsurge in my appreciation for what creatives give to the public?

Without denigrating or lessening other creative and innovative folks who continue to spark our  imagination and help us to see the nuances and myriad complexities of life through their words, visual art, music, dance, etc., we salute Ellen Blalock, visual artist/photographer/writer based in Syracuse, NY, and Karen Faris, poet/writer/visual and experimental artist who resides in Rochester, NY.

This particular blog posting celebrates Faris and her current exhibition that opened this afternoon/evening at the historic and community beloved Cayuga Museum of Art and History in Auburn, NY.

Many aaduna followers and readers know Karen's "words." 

Her literary ability to transport her audience to mystical worlds marked by motherly experiences, aliens, broken relationships, celebrations and disappointments as well as "prayer" beads of acknowledgement and rigorous notions of achievement that can overcome temporary adversity has propelled several of us to tackle our personal demons and unexpected anxieties.   

Since some of us may not know Karen Faris as a compelling visual artist and photographer with a keen eye for the unusual idioms of life, the Cayuga Museum offers us an unique opportunity to experience the visual perspective of her creative sensibilities.  

Jack Hardy, board member/Cayuga Museum and bill berry, jr.

We encourage you to check out:

CNY Emerging Artist Project 

Cayuga Museum Of History and Art

203 Genesee Street

Auburn, NY 13021

315.253.8051

Faris Exhibition is from June 20th to  July 14th.

It is a show worth seeing!

Have a grand, safe, and blessed weekend.

bill

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