“Roadside Haiku Project” NM Museum of Art and Axle Contemporary Co-Host

CELEBRATE THE "ROADSIGN HAIKU PROJECT" SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1:00-3:00 p.m. FUN EVENT FOR ALL AGES

The New Mexico Museum of Art will host a special event to celebrate the completion of Axle Contemporary’s “Roadsign Haiku Project,” on Sunday, September 25, 1:00-3:00 p.m. The event is appropriate for audiences of all ages.

1:00-2:00 p.m., in the museum galleries

Jerry Wellman, of Axle Contemporary, will lead “Read and Draw” in Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, and

Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate, will lead “Write what you see,” an ekphrastic poetry exercise in How the West Is One. Ekphrastic Poetry is poetry that comments on another art form. Visitors are welcome to participate in either or both activity at their own pace.

2:00 p.m., in the Museum’s Patio A reading by “Roadsign Haiku Project” poets, followed by an “open mic” for anyone who wants to read their poems written in the Museum galleries.

Following the readings,Ellen Zieselman, Curator of Education, will host the first-ever “NM Museum of Art Speed Haiku Event”. Participants will have 2 minutes to write an original haiku on a randomly selected theme.

The Roadsign will be outside the NM Museum of Art for the day. This will be your last chance to take a photo with a piece of Santa Fe Art History! Axle Contemporary will also be parked at the Museum that day.

Axle’s book on the project will be available throughout the event.

“We were honored to be a site for the “Roadsign Haiku Project” this summer,” said Zieselman. “It’s been a real treat to drive around Santa Fe and come across such imaginative poetry. We wanted to celebrate the project by bringing all the poems and poets together for a fun afternoon at the Museum.”

The Museum is open for free on Sundays for New Mexico Residents; admission for non-residents is $9. Admission for children under 16 is always free.