DVAA Weekly Art Challenge: Write a spring haiku
Narrowsburg, N.Y. Celebrate the season by trying your hand at haiku. The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance's "Weekly Art Challenge" aims to keep everyone creatively connected while we are socially distanced.
| 08 Apr 2020 | 01:09
"Darkness at the Edge of Town," a new painting by Eileen Curtis Israel, expresses the artist's anxiety about the COVID-19 crisis and living with type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. Still, a small scattering of lights in the distance hints at hope on the horizon. (Gouache on board.)
The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance's "Weekly Art Challenge" aims to keep everyone creatively connected while we are socially distanced.
This week's art challenge celebrates the arrival of spring. Send the DVAA your spring haiku capturing the essence of the season by sharing and tagging them on Facebook or Instagram. Tag the DVAA at @dvartsalliance and use the hashtags #dvaaartchallenge #creativelyconnected #springhaiku.
Haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables written in a 5-7-5 syllable count, like this one by Patricia L. Cisco titled "Transformation of the Seasons":
Winter fights to stay.
Sweet spring always wins her way.
Flowers bloomed today!
This project is made possible in part by the Arts for Sullivan Decentralization Grants program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts and administered by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, and the the Sullivan County Arts & Heritage Grants program, a regrant program funded by the Sullivan County Legislature and administered by DVAA.
Call for creative expression
The DVAA wants to hear from you. Share your imagery, writing, videos, amd any other creative expressions (recipes too!) that you are producing so that DVAA may share with its Arts Happenings' audience.
Send submissions to info@delawarevalleyartsalliance.org with the subject line “for Arts Happenings.”
Due to the volume of submissions, not all submissions may be featured.
RiverVibes online performances
RiverVibes at The Cooperage in Honesdale is hosting online Facebook performances from artists they have hosted or were cancelled due to COVID-19. Check them out at facebook.com/RiverFolkConcerts.