In the darkness of the Science dome, the art of painting and the art of words are fused together to make something different.

Students from Heather Frankland’s English 107 and David Roholt’s art class embarked on an adventure to combine poetry with paintings. Frankland’s students created found poems (Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems)   for the project with Roholt’s art students.

The art students will now have a few weeks to create a painting based on the found poem.

There will be a gallery walk of the finished product March 4 on the 2nd floor of Olympic building. There will be food and beverages to be shared. A few students will be selected to talk about their poems and paintings.

Sample of the

found poetry

It’s like walking up stairs in the dark

Thinking there is one more step

Until your foot falls through the air

— Gabrielle Garwick