MOUNT VERNON — Enjoy an afternoon of poetry on Friday, Nov. 15, 5-6 p.m. at the Buchwald Center’s Schnormeier Gallery, downtown Mount Vernon, when David Sapp will give a reading titled “Portraits” in conjunction with an exhibition of his art and writing. An artist, writer and Mount Vernon Nazarene University alum, Sapp will exhibit his drawings and poetry, Nov. 4 through Dec. 6 in a show titled: “Drawing and Study, Poem and Draft.”
Sapp commented on the nature of the show: “This exhibition places drawing studies next to finished works of art and drafts of writing next to finished, published poems so that the viewer might discover and appreciate the development and realization of a work of art or a poem over time. It will show viewers how artists and writers initiate ideas and find final resolutions in works of art.”
Sapp is a 2018 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award grant for poetry and received a 2018 Akron Soul Train Fellowship for visual art and poetry. He is a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee. Sapp is a Professor of Art and the Director of the Little Gallery at Bowling Green State University, Huron. His Master of Fine Arts degree was completed in Drawing at BGSU. Sapp attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and he is a 1987 graduate of Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Art and Psychology. He is a native of Knox County and a 1978 graduate of Mount Vernon Senior High School.
His poems have appeared widely in a number of venues across the United States, in Canada and the United Kingdom: Poetry Salzburg, University of Salzburg, Austria; Stand Magazine, University of Leeds, England; Pennine Platform, Bradford England; Dalhousie Review, Nova Scotia; Queen’s Quarterly, Kingston, Ontario; and in the US: The Alembic, Cape Rock, Willard and Maple, Tulane Review, Roanoke Review, Chattahoochee Review and The Journal at Ohio State University. His publications also include articles in the Journal of Creative Behavior; chapbooks Close to Home and Two Buddha; and his novel, Flying Over Erie.
His artwork has been exhibited in numerous shows such as the Sandusky Cultural Center, the Carrington Gallery in Sandusky; Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin; The Sculpture Center, Cleveland; The Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston; and the Toyohashi City Museum, Toyohashi, Japan.
A reception will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public. Gallery Hours are 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturdays.
