Join us for the launch of Word 2024 with the annual Word.Art exhibit of visual art that includes or relates to the written word. Featured work is by Kristie Billings, Marechal Brown, Stu Kestenbaum and Susan Webster, Buzz Masters, Claire Millikin, Leslie Moore, Margaret Rizzio, Amy Tingle, Caroline Sulzer, Heidi Daub, and Patricia Wheeler. Karin Spitfire, Millikin, and Billings will read during the opening at 6 pm, joined by Elizabeth Kirshner, one of two winners of the first Word Festival Writing Contest.

As part of the show, Leslie Moore, a poet and printmaker, will show prints at BHPL throughout October, along with an exhibit of Kristy Cunnane book art in the Howard Room glass cases.

Free event