Three Things: The Spotlight Edition

This Wednesday, we’re inviting you (yes, you!) to step into the spotlight* (or at least, stand in front of our microphone) and read your work at our third Words at WAM. Co-hosted by yours truly and our dear friends, the WAM Collective, this third iteration of Words at WAM will feature writers Katie Sisneros and Dobby Gibson, and however many more of you we can get through in an hour and a half (get there early to sign up!).

Intimidated, ever-so-slightly, by the idea of a spotlight? Don’t worry, it’s much easier than you think. It won’t be anything like the following three performances. Unless, of course, that’s what you want. In which case, it will be exactly like that.

Pablo Picasso, Curtain for the ballet “Parade”, 1917. Tempera on canvas. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

Lisa Swerling, portion of All the World’s a Stage. Mixed media; shadowbox sculpture. www.glasscathedrals.com

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, 1924. Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

* We don’t have an actual spotlight. Sorry, folks.