Flood Mission
Flood Fine Art Center is a non-profit contemporary art institution dedicated to advancing the careers of emerging and mid career artists, as well as educating the public and furthering the understanding of contemporary art and its importance within the community and beyond. We aim to provide a stimulating environment for artists so that they will successively enlighten, challenge, inspire, and elevate awareness for the necessity of art in contemporary culture.
Flood Fine Art Center seeks to be a vital cultural resource for Asheville through providing funding and space for innovative local and national artists as well as curators who stretch boundaries in all media. Through our extensive exhibition schedule, residency program, educational activities, presentations and publications we aim to serve a diverse audience that will in turn enhance quality of life and provide opportunities and experiences that would otherwise be unavailable.
Poetry readings
Please join us on April 27th at 12:00noon here at the Flood Fine Arts Center as we host one of the following Wordfest Events.
Reading in the Flood Gallery on the 27th will be: GLENIS REDMOND, SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS, LAURA HOPE -GILL, and MARK PRUDOWSKY
This Asheville Wordfest is an exciting and ambitious undertaking organized by Sebastian Mathews and Laura Hope Gills and includes among others the following poets:
Galway Kinnell, Coleman Barks, Kay Byer, Patricia Smith, Simon Ortiz,
Fatemeh Keshavarz, MariJo Moore,Glenis Redmond and Richard Chess.
Here is the schedule:
RICHARD CHESS, PATRICIA SMITH
Thursday April 24 7 pm UNC-A Humanities Lecture Hall
SIMON ORTIZ, MARIJO MOORE, KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER
Friday April 25 7 pm UNC-A Humanities Lecture Hall
GLENIS REDMOND, ALLAN WOLF, JIM NAVE, LAURA HOPE -GILL,
Re-Opening the Green Door: a Retrospective of the 1990's Performance Poetry Scene
Friday April 25 10 pm Malaprops Bookstore/Cafe corner of Walnut and
Haywood St.
COLEMAN BARKS
Saturday April 26 2 pm The Fine Arts Theater 36 Biltmore Avenue
WORDFEST AT MALAPROPS: RECEPTION AND SIGNING
Saturday April 25 4 pm Malaprops Bookstore/Café
FAT EMEH KESHAVARZ, GALWAY KINNELL
Saturday April 26 7 pm UNC-A Humanities Lecture Hall
POETIX LOUNGE
Saturday April 26 10 pm Bobo Gallery on Lexington Avenue
WORDFEST DREAM THEATER (see website for details)
LEE ANN BRO WN AND TONY TORN Saturday April 26 11 PM—
ALLAN WOLF POETRY WORKSHOP WITH CHILDREN
BOOKWORKS 11 AM 48 1⁄2 Haywood Road (reserve: 255-8444)
FLOOD GALLERY READING: GLENIS REDMOND, SEBASTIAN
MATTHEWS, LAURA HOPE -GILL, MARK PRUDOWSKY
12 noon. 109 Roberts St. at corner of Clingman and Roberts by the river.
LEE ANN BROWN, KATHY WAGNER, DEVIN JOHNSTON
This History Isn't Closed: A Protospective of The Black Mountain
College Legacy: Sunday April 27 2 pm Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center
WORDFEST LOCAL: JEFF DAVIS, DAVID HOPES, ROSE MCLARNEY, GARY COPELAND LILLEY, ALLAN WOLF, KEITH FLYNN, LEE ANN BROWN Sunday April 27 6 pm Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center