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| Image source: Tennessee Cove by Tom Killion |
Capturing the beauty of the California coast through woodcut prints and prose, California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History is a new traveling exhibition appearing at Pleasanton’s Museum on Main from March 28 to June 25. The exhibition features artist Tom Killion’s Japanese-style woodcut prints, which vividly portray the coast’s ever-changing moods and diverse formations. From Southern California to Humboldt County, Killion’s work colorfully captures the meeting of land and sea.
Deepening the experience are complementary writings by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, chosen to provide a rich history of the coast through poetry and prose. Other perspectives on the California coastline come from Native Californian traditional stories, accounts of travelers, and poems by past and present California writers, including Robinson Jeffers, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, and Jaime de Angulo. Continue reading
Originally Posted: Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:00 am
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