(More-Than-A-Book Study) Yield: An Artist's Journal

Join Kari Reiquam in reading and responding to the art journal of Anne Truitt, an American artist whose bold use of geometry and color signaled a new direction for modern sculpture.  You are invited to creatively respond to each reading (be it through writing, poetry, drawing, watercolor, etc) in advance of our weekly Thursday evening digital gathering. The cost of the book is not included in your registration, please order or reserve it as soon as possible.

Gathings will take place over Zoom from 6:00-7:30 Pacific Time.  The groups will meet on February 9, February 16, March 2, March 9, and March 16.

Each week, we will connect with one another, discuss the reading, and share (as you are comfortable) our creative responses.  This is a series that invites you to consider the relationship with your creative process through the journal of an acclaimed artist.  The average number of pages read between meetings is 40 pages.

From the back cover:

“In the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines other than to “let the artist speak.” These writings were published as Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982). Two other journal volumes followed: Turn (1986) and Prospect (1996). This book, the final volume, comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death.

In Yield, Truitt’s unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. Truitt illuminates a life and career in which the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of family, friends, motherhood, and grandmotherhood are ultimately accepted, together with those of a working artist.”

The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants upon registration.