Join us on Sunday, September 11, at 2PM for selected stories and poems read by the authors of Five Artist Writers: Our Pens, The Muse & Togetherness.  Please note this is an IN-PERSON event.

Five Artist Writers: Our Pens, The Muse & Togetherness was written and illustrated by a group of accomplished artists who met and wrote together weekly for many years. By using a creative writing method based on Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow, they were freed from traditional writing restrictions and self editing. Their topics ranged from daily life, shared experiences, memoirs, travel and culture in this country and abroad.

Zoom and COVID allowed them to meet online and to find a way to share their art and writing. The book is entertaining, enlightening and hopefully inspiring for all who enjoy a good read. 

About the Authors:

Betty Barry - a former photojournalist, elementary/middle school technology teacher, and student pilot, now is an avid gardener and puppy parent. She guided us forward as we tackled the job of designing and publishing a book together.

Cynthia Nelissen-Nihart - a Fine Artist, painter and photographer who taught studio art at high school and college levels. She spent three years in Ivory Coast as a Peace Corps Volunteer and has experienced living in a number of different cultures including Northern Europe.

Edith Loring Thomas - a creative, much accomplished multi-media and collage artist, conservator of Fine Arts, and teacher who lived and studied many years in Europe.

Sara Cohen - a high energy, multi-talented, much-travelled writer, artist and documentary videographer.  She taught art in the Boston School system for three decades.

June Cluett - trained in Fine Art as a sculptor. Much travelled she is a portrait artist, poet and writer. She also lived the cruising life for ten years, journaling and painting, recording their experiences aboard their sailing boat - a 48ft ketch.