Visiting Writers Series

Elizabeth Kerlikowske is the author of 8 chapbooks and the larger book, "Art Speaks", with painter Mary Hatch.  Her latest chapbook is The Vaudeville Horse. She is past president of Kalamazoo's Friends of Poetry and The Poetry Society of Michigan. She was awarded the Community Medal for the Arts in 2017. She loves the deer and hates the deer that frequent her Kalamazoo backyard.

(Bio taken from The Thimble, https://www.thimblelitmag.com/author/ekerlikowske/)

Mary Hatch

Artist's Statement:

My work begins with little fragments of life unintentionally stored away
Tiny bits of memory – much too insignificant to notice
Until oddly they come together forming narratives
Familiar
As if they have always existed
The big things have a way of staying separate and need no further explanation
The small things we take for granted, finally emerge intuitively
And paste themselves together.

Hatch’s work has been shown in over 30 one-person exhibits in as many years and is included in more than 300 public and private collections throughout the US and Canada.