What Artists See: The Violence Within
Join Mason Exhibitions and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center on November 15, 6-8pm at Mason Exhibitions Arlington for a book launch of two authors, Megan Doney's Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir and Amanda Newell, Postmortem Say.
This event is in collaboration with Faces and Figures: Identity Through Printmaking Between South Africa and DC. Themes of the exhibition respond to violence, reconciliation, and the spirit of Ubuntu (I am because we are).
Mason Exhibitions Arlington is located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA, across the street from the Virginia Square Metro station, and paid street parking is available.
Please email Alissa Maru with questions/concerns (mailto: amaru@gmu.edu)
Free and Open to the Public
About the Books
Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir
After surviving a school shooting, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, this memoir is about how to live with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.
Postmortem Say
Love and death, poetry's immortal themes, are interwoven throughout Amanda Newell's Postmortem Say. Death is everywhere-in the fields and forests, on darkened roads, in the delivery room-but there is also love, the kind that defies convention and outlasts death itself. These poems confront, without flinching, hard truths about what it means to be a woman, a mother, a wife, and a lover.
-Sue Ellen Thompson, author of Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems
