Kosciusko Literacy Services Offers Free Workshop
News Release
WARSAW – In conjunction with One State / One Story, Kosciusko Literacy Services is offering a free workshop on May 12.
The workshop, titled, This Place of Ours in Art and Literature: How can Hoosier writers and artists inspire you and your community to define a sense of place and find ways to celebrate it?
The event will be presented by Professor Kevin McKelvey, of the University of Indianapolis, at 1 p.m. May 12.
It will be both in-person with limited seating at the Warsaw Community Public Library and virtually on Zoom.
Participants will leave with ideas and plans for socially engaged art, cultural programs, community engagement, and placemaking and place-keeping.
Seating is limited. Call 574-267-5380 or email [email protected] to register or to join by Zoom. Deadline to register is May 11.
This workshop is part of Indiana Humanities’ One State / One Story statewide book read. The book selection is The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson.
Kosciusko Literacy Services received a grant from the Indiana Humanities to host the book read in Kosciusko County.
Two hundred years of art and literature in Indiana, from T.C. Steele to George Ade, Gene Stratton-Porter to Robert Indiana, Mari Evans to John Green and Adrian Matejka, serve as a jumping-off point for McKelvey’s discussion of Indiana’s rural townships, towns, suburbs, and cities.
Place is central to our identity and culture in Indiana, and McKelvey’s discussion will evolve into a collaborative workshop to identify historical or cultural assets in your area and brainstorm ways to use contemporary arts, literature, and humanities to directly engage and strengthen local communities.
Attendees will leave with ideas and plans for socially engaged art, cultural programs, community engagement, and placemaking and place-keeping.
McKelvey is place-based writer, poet, designer, and social practice artist. His poetry book, Dream Wilderness, was published last year, and another book, Indiana Nocturnes, written with Curtis Crisler, will be published this year. He is at work on a novel and regularly completes workshops, art installations, and placemaking projects around Indiana.