Sunday, July 31 at 4 p.m.—ROCHESTER—From Wednesday, July 20 through Saturday, Aug. 13, Putney resident Erika Lawlor Schmidt will show her recent work in the Projects Gallery at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Inspired by the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y. in 1848, Schmidt’s collages combine pictures of American furnishings with repurposed paper doilies and stitched thread. In a series of mono-prints, Schmidt explores her feelings about being in and on bodies of water, both shallow and deep.
On Sunday, July 31 at 4 p.m., Schmidt introduces her show with an artist’s talk, followed at 5:30 p.m. by novelist Susan Choi and poet Peg Boyers reading from their work in the Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series 2016. Choi, the author of four novels, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She teaches at Yale. Boyers has published three poetry collections and resides in Saratoga, N.Y., where she co-edits with her husband the literary magazine “Salmagundi.” She teaches at Skidmore College.
BigTown Gallery is located at 99 North Main St., Rochester. For more info, visit bigtowngallery.com.
