Ars Poetica

Visual artists respond to poetry

April 3 - May 12, 2025

Jeanette Best Gallery

701 Water Street, Port Townsend

JOIN US FOR a conversation across art forms. Ars Poetica features artists and poets from across Western Washington, all on view together. Gallery hours are 12-5 PM Thursdays through Mondays — plus an art and poetry party open to the public Saturday, April 12, from 5-7 PM.

ARTISTS INCLUDE Susan Berry, Jaime Duyck, Teresa Greco, Angela Howard, Meg Kaczyk, Amy King, Andrea Mercado, Merilee Nyland, Steven Park, Kim Ramsey, Kate Schinhofen and Raea Stika.

GUIDED BY TEACHING ARTIST Meg Kaczyk in the February 22 Paint from Poems class at Northwind Art School, these makers responded to poems by Kelli Russell Agodon, Sharon Carter, Eve Epstein, Barbara Hoonan, Kristen Hotchkiss, Emily Jane Mockett, Diane Moser, Sharon Ostenson, Adam Rabinowitz, Jenny Sinanan, Eliza Soule and Gary Wood.

Pictured: Angela Howard's mixed media art responding to Haiku IV by Barbara Hoonan