BETWEEN EARTH & HEAVEN

New work by SEAMUS LEONARD

September 9 - October 28

OPENING RECEPTION- Saturday, September 8, 2006, 5-9pm

"-I tell stories through pencil, pen, pictures, and words-"

It is the aim of Seamus Leonard to create contemporary visual and written mythologies. To tell linear and non-linear stories of past and contemporary mythologies. To create poems, prose, and short stories, mixed into contemporary medieval manuscripts, artist made books, publications, illustrations, comic books, installations, films and performance. Come spend some time with this work. You will be richly rewarded.

The titles, in order, are Chime, Mining,Flight,Thought,Vault,War Booty,Containment,Question,Deck,Stories,Assimilation of Stuff and Return.

IN OCTOBER

TALKING IMAGE CONNECTION

The Gods Must be Cranky

poetry & text by Michele Campbell, Haley Lasche, Seamus Leonard, Jen March and Ace Moore response to the work of Seamus Leonard

MICHÈLE CAMPBELL grew up in Southern California‹in Orange County, the city of Orange, on Orange Street. Her parents drove an orange Toyota Corolla hatchback during her formative years. As a result, she often wonders if there is any way around that rhymes with orange rule‹it is possible that this is what led her to begin writing. She has been a lover of words and self-important emotional pronouncements all her life, so her primary genre is creative non-fiction. She once said in an interview, ³Creative non-fiction is where I get to talk about myself all I want and no one can stop me. All I have to do is figure out how to make my life sound interesting.² Michèle now teaches high school French in Minneapolis because you should never underestimate the power of a captive audience. She lives in the Longfellow neighborhood.

HALEY LASCHÉ is a graduate student at Hamline University and a founding member of West Egg Literati. She has been on the steering committees of two college based literary magazines and has worked on Water~Stone Review as a student editor. She writes primarily poetry and criticism. In addition to her literary career, she is a college instructor, a professional post-modern dancer, and a punk rock fashion model. She lives in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood.

JEN MARCH is a poet in the MFA program at Hamline University. She was on the editorial board for the 2006 issue of Water~Stone Review, and has interned with Lit 6 Project, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and is currently interning with Graywolf Press. Her work has appeared in The Northridge Review, Freshwater, and is forthcoming as part of the mnartists.org and Magers & Quinn series ³What Light: a poem a week². She lives in the Corcoran neighborhood.

ACE MOORE is currently in the MFA Program at Hamline University. His prose and poetry have appeared in such publications as Wandering Hermit Review, Pearl, Spleen Quarterly and Point No Point as well as in the anthologies Jack Straw Writers Program 2000, Vox Populi and Nobody's Orphan Child. His words have been heard on the radio at KUOW in Seattle and Valley Voices in Michigan. He lives with his wife, Meghan, and son, Xavier, in various locations throughout western Wisconsin and Saint Paul._ He doesn¹t really have a neighborhood (his official residency is in Wisconsin), but he knows people in Dinkytown and has in-laws in Highland Park.

tic stands for talkingimageconnection, an organization, started by writer-animator Alison Morse, that connects emerging poets and writers with adventurous visual artists in ways that entertain all kinds of audiences. A talkingimageconnection reading is designed to make adventurous conceptual art more accessible to everybody. Funny and dramatic storytelling and bold or lyric language can connect you to artwork in concrete, entertaining ways.Funny and dramatic storytelling and bold or lyric language can connect audiences to artwork in concrete, entertaining ways. TIC readings have been held at The Soap Factory, The Frank Stone Gallery, and the SooVac Visual Arts Center.