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Art Museum Community Day!
October 5, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Come explore the Art Museum! Visit our galleries and make art inspired by pioneering photographer Gordon Parks.
Open to all, including SU students as well as children & families- Free Family Guide available for the Gordon Parks exhibition!
Schedule of events:
Drop-in art-making: noon-4 p.m.
Story Time: 12:30 pm & 2:30 p.m.
Poetry reading & workshop with Kofi Antwi: 1-2 p.m.
Kofi Antwi is an African American writer, composition professor at SUNY Cortland, and assistant editor of Aquarius Press/Willow Books. In 2018, Kofi completed an MFA in Creative Writing. During the summer of 2020 Kattywompus Press published Kofi’s debut book Tidal Wave. Kofi is the assistant editor of BLACK FIRE – THIS TIME and Black Fire This Time Volume 2 published by Aquarius Press/Willow Books. Kofi Antwi’s writing has been published by various journals, magazines, and literary reviews. To encourage diversity and inclusion of black voices and writers in Central New York, Antwi has assembled a Poetry workshop for the youth and at Community Folk Arts Center.
Antwi’s verses in Tidal Wave were featured in Poetry Foundation Open Door Reading Series, an exploration into one’s identity through the lens of creative expression, while pushing the boundaries of poetic intent. Also, Antwi’s poem vintage was nominated for Best Poem on The Web. Kofi’s writing has been published by No, Dear, Rigorous, Stone Canoe, and various literary magazines and journals.