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About Me
I was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in a rural area outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I received a B.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, a Certificate Francaise from The Sorbonne, Paris, France, and an M.F.A. from The Maryland Institute, College of Art. Later in life I studied poetry with Jeanne Marie Beaumont, David Yezzi and Glen Maxwell at the 92 Street Y; Erica Wright at New York University; Marie Howe and Marie Ponsot at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Afaa Michael Weaver at the renown Frost Place Poetry Workshop in New Hampshire. I am the author of three books of poetry, “Being a City Girl, I Screamed”, "I Call Myself Island", and "Wordviews" , and most recently I have written a pictorial memoir/archive documenting my 20 years of making visual art in New York City called "Sculpting a Life", available through Amazon in three formats, Blurb, as well as Apple Books.
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About My BooksPOETRY
My poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in U.S. 1 Worksheets, The Edison Literary Review, Podium, The Literary Journal of the 92 Street Y and Pens On Fire. I presented my poetry at Manhattan’s Kiva Café, Brooklyn’s Arcadia Studio and Princeton University. In October of 2012 I began writing one or more haiku a day as a Facebook Project. I wrote 2200 haikus with over 900 of them posted on Facebook, many accompanied with an original photograph. On November 14, 2014, six of my poems were put to music by composer David Sisco and sung by soprano Marie Mascari at Carnegie Hall. VISUAL ART For some 20 years I worked as a sculptor in New York City. In my book "Sculpting a Life", I pictorially document those years including images of all the art work, accompanied with a memoir text. These books are linked to at the right and below. |
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About My Visual Art
During 20 years of making visual art, my main theme was the juxtaposition of organic and inorganic on Earth, as industrialization intruded into Nature. I went through numerous bodies of work, beginning with a reconstruction of organic imagery using synthetic materials, ending with constructions which juxtaposed organic (sand, bones, dirt...) and inorganic materials (extruded acrylic rods, synthetic mylar, AstroTurf...). My artwork, large-scale constructions, sculptures and two-dimensional pieces were exhibited at P.P.O.W., ArtMart, and Grace Borgenicht Gallery in New York City.
In addition to writing and making visual art, I taught Drawing, Color and Design at Rutgers University.
All photographs, artwork and poetry are property of Danita Geltner
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