Monmouth College’s first art exhibition of the academic year brings together photos and poetry to give focus to a current environmental issue.
“Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields” features photographs by Steven Rubin and poems by Julia Spicher Kasdorf. It will be on display through Sept. 15 in the Len G. Everett Gallery in Hewes Library.
Based on their book of the same title, “Shale Play” features 22 of Rubin’s photographs and 12 of Kasdorf’s poems that sketch the complex circumstances and the people affected by the fracking of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania.
The exhibit is the first of two “Visions & Verse” events that celebrate collaborations between artists and poets. The second exhibit will be on display in the Everett Gallery during the spring semester.
Kasdorf visited campus for a gallery reception and poetry reading from 6-7:30 p.m. on Sept. 9. Kasdorf also met with student writers and artists and talked with students and faculty interested in learning about fracking and its environmental and human effects in Pennsylvania and beyond.
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