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<\/a>The project will highlight Camosun\u2019s art collection. College students who write poetry will choose a piece of art and write a poem about it. That poem will then be taken by a student artist, who will create a new piece of art inspired by that poem.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve picked 25 pieces of art in three buildings on Lansdowne, and Nancy\u2019s been taking writers and poets and anyone who is interested around the collection,\u201d says Penner.<\/p>\n
After the poems are submitted, an English teacher will mentor two students, who will do the blind jurying and editing of the selected poems into a poetry chapbook. A similar situation will be happening on the art department end of the project, leading up to a gala event in the library.<\/p>\n
\u201cA student will work with an instructor to curate the pieces for the event and install those pieces in the library alongside the poems,\u201d says Penner. \u201cI just have the feeling that the event is going to be a night full of exciting conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penner also hopes that the event will bring a renewed interest to the art collection at Camosun, which she says is a beautiful and varied set that needs some love.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some pretty famous artists,\u201d says Penner, \u201cand there\u2019s everything from sculpture to native carvings to painting to collage and printmaking, so there\u2019s really quite a range in the collection, and it would be good to see it displayed in a way that people are responding to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penner says that she hopes the event might become an annual occurrence, possibly even expanding outward to other Camosun faculties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time for thinking in silos is over, and it is important to collaborate and think laterally across disciplines,\u201d says Penner. \u201cIt would be wonderful to think a project like this could expand to biology or chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n