Ars Poetica

Visual artists respond to poetry

April 3 - May 12, 2025

Jeanette Best Gallery

701 Water Street, Port Townsend

JOIN US FOR a color-drenched conversation across art forms.

Ars Poetica features works by artists and poets across Western Washington, all on view together.

Come to the gallery during regular hours — 12-5 PM Thursdays through Mondays — and during Art Walk Saturdays April 5 and May 3.

Ars Poetica participating 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. Several of their artworks are available for purchase at the gallery or here on our website.  

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 artwork responding to Haiku IV by Barbara Hoonan, and Teresa Greco's piece inspired by Sharon Carter's poem To the Window Box Owner.