Art and Poetry at the Gale Free Library

The Holden Library is hosting an art exhibition featuring watercolors by Mary Zywar and my photographic art. The exhibit will run through the month of July at the Gale Free Library in Holden Massachusetts. An art reception will be held on Thursday, July 9 from 6-7pm. Art can be viewed in the Lobby and in the Program Room on the second floor. The exhibit can be viewed anytime that the library is open provided there is no other activity going on in the Program Room. Check with the library if you want to be sure you can view the exhibit when you show up. See the flyers attached for the exhibit info for the watercolors and the photographic art.

John Zywar’s poems will feature selections from a combined poetry and photographic art project based on his work during two summers at Northampton State Hospital while he was in college. Photography is from a repurposed mid-19th century insane asylum in Athens Ohio. The former asylum is now a part of Ohio University. Photos from that facility have been published in the New Ohio Review, the University of Akron’s Rubbertop Review and Welter Magazine at the University of Baltimore. A poem from this project was included in the 2024 edition of So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum. Another poem along with two photos were published in the on line magazine Dipity Literary.

Plenty of additional free parking across the street from the library and behind the Holden Town Hall.