Phillips Educator Carla Freyvogel on Lou Stovall’s poetry, and the poetry it inspired. Many visual artists are also writers. Lou Stovall (1937-2023) was a touching example. He wrote love poems to his wife, Di. His commencement speech to the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s graduating class was delivered in the form of a poem. He also […]
April is poetry month. I love Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia written to a marvelous text by W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets. (I recently enjoyed a performance by the King’s College Choir.) The refrain to the patron saint of musicians reads thus: Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians, appear and […]
Members of the education department took a road trip recently to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to view current exhibition Van Gogh Up Close and meet our colleagues in Philly. Works by van Gogh are in the Phillips’s permanent collection, and I used the opportunity to study the painter and get to know a work […]
