REVERBERATIONS 2024
Reverberations is now closed, thank you all for your attendance and enthusiasm for this incredible exhibition.
Reverberations 2024 invites you into an immersive art exhibition, merging world-renowned art with ekphrastic poetry. Ekphrastic poetry creates an evocative description of a work of art to affect and expand the artistic experience.
Sebastopol Center for the Arts (SebArts) is bringing together 56 rarely-seen works from curated Sonoma County collections along with 56 original ekphrastic poems written by some of the Bay Area’s most notable poets. These works offer an intimate adventure into realms of visual and literary art, shown side-by-side, supporting and enhancing meaning and expression.
View art from Saif Azzuz, Ruth Bernhard, Pamela Boden, Lee Bontecou, Dorr Bothwell, Colin Brant, Joan Brown, Ernesto Burgos, Vija Celmins, Enrique Chagoya, Warrington Colescott, Jose Luis Cuevas, Roy DeForest, Willem de Kooning, Maria de los Angeles, Sonia Delaunay, Richard Diebenkorn, Terry Fox, Lucian Freud, Wally Hedrick, Barbara Hepworth, Camille Holvoet, Edward Hopper, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Sahar Khoury, Dorothea Lange, Fernand Leger, Alfred Leslie, Hung Liu, Alicia McCarthy, Nancy Mintz, Robert S. Neuman, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Elizabeth Peyton, Martin Puryear, Joseph Raffael, Gregory Rick, Monika Rosa, Georges Rouault, Ed Ruscha, Judith Shea, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine Shemesh, Matt Small, Ginny Stanford, Pat Steir, RufinoTamayo, Masami Teraoka, Wayne Thiebaud, Claude Venard, Emilio Villalba, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Kara Walker, Edward Weston, William Wiley
To learn more about our Corporate Sponsorship Program, which includes group tour opportunities, please contact spalandech@sebarts.org.
See our upcoming special exhibition in this 138-page, beautifully printed catalog for Reverberations 2024. It includes high-quality art reproductions together with poets’ response, a preface on “The Art of Ekphrasis” by Tamsin Spencer Smith, and bios. price includes shipping via media mail
Thank You to Our Special Sponsors
Charlie Pendergast, RiskPress Foundation
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Kevin Connor,
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Alan Porter + Paul Hoge
Yana + Len Goldfine
Linda Loveland Reid
C. Vogel + D. Luperini
Poetry Reading Sponsor:
Rumi's Caravan
Poetry Reading Sponsor:
Blue Moon Poetry Collective
Poetry Reading Sponsor:
Monday Poets
Reverberations Artists Deeper Dive
Saif Azzuz “Saif Senussi Azzuz “Everything Has A Name”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NoyoqTdU0M0&pp=ygUKU2FpZiBhenp1eg%3D%3D
Lee Bontecou “Modern Women: Veronica Roberts on Lee Bontecou”
https://youtu.be/Q2GRHDuGr04?si=e8h4PMcL9goclzqW
Vija Celmins “Time”
https://art21.org/artist/vija-celmins/
Enrique Chagoya “Enrique Chagoya: The Idea Artist”
https://youtu.be/A-AJApz32HU?si=NU6llUAfn99vEeQn
Richard Diebenkorn “Green” by Richard Diebenkorn: The Making of a Print, Crown Point Press, 1986”
https://youtu.be/F0Di0eU9fr4?si=Vccth726XyZDovg3
Terry Fox “75 Reasons to Live: Sarah Roberts on Terry Fox’s Pendulum Spit Bite”
https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/75-reasons-to-live-sarah-roberts-on-terry-foxs-pendulum-spit-bite/
Lucian Freud “UNDOING EVERYTHING HE KNOWS/ Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait”
https://youtu.be/3YKX6ZrWKWY?si=xrKN1ZMbbMgGny8x
Barbara Hepworth “BARBARA HEPWORTH on SCULPTURE”
https://youtu.be/WUNtgt9IqBM?si=jH8avi5AJFV2smac
Camille Holvoet “Open Your Eyes Wide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZQpztVNsQ
Mildred Howard “Artist Mildred Howard Changes Landscapes”
https://youtu.be/tZeC3RA35hU?si=2H8hu54NmWJZLkzE
Robert Hudson “Meet Robert Hudson”
https://youtu.be/WL22CNhA_dQ?si=FiBcHCz8L4ji6b4g
Fernand Leger “Fernand Leger’s Radical Cubist Vision”
https://youtu.be/TNLwKTw_WPw?si=kchwYg55fABqow_u
Alicia McCarthy “How ORFNs Graffiti Inspires Alicia McCarthy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI3f64sXIvk
“Alicia McCarthy: Visually listening to bands of colors”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePww_nfwnnw
Hung Liu “KQED Spark-Hung Liu”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8e43K2zCI
Martin Puryear “Time”
https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/martin-puryear-in-time-segment/
Gregory Rick “Gregory Rick: Forgiveness”
https://youtu.be/vWFiG0KVNzY?si=Rhf_SZBtp0CmYq3k
Lorraine Shemesh “Lorraine Shemesh: The Space Between Us”
https://youtu.be/QfIYcPv7d4s?si=GRlcTLjyZVe92Ooc
Lorna Simpson “Lorna Simpson: Everything I do comes from the Same Desires”
https://youtu.be/dNk098ffjLM?si=ttMdolVmemx3mLLx
Matt Small “Street Art Interview with Matt Small”
https://youtu.be/o9i4M3guCTg?si=PPZyegDnEG8Rif7A
“What is England to UK artists Matt Small”
https://youtu.be/nkj441APRL4?si=uORpzbg00lYKsKwx
Pat Steir “Pat Steir, Painter and Printmaker”
https://youtu.be/ijb-UZcKCBo?si=UeIzHYeVEEXWMA7s
Masami Teraoka “Masami Teraoka: A Conversation with the Artist”
https://youtu.be/j1q607TGdl4?si=F9qzN6AIWUYvT3CM
Ursula von Rydingsvard “Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVcbHNXl0hs&rco=1
Kara Walker “Kara Walker and Jason Moran: Sending Out A Signal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JKVgfHfrQo
Reverberations 2024 will wow you.
“Sebastopol Center for the Arts is launching one of the most sophisticated exhibits it's ever done.”
LAURA HAGAR RUSH, Sebastopol Times
https://www.sebastopoltimes.com/p/reverberations-2024-will-wow-you