CREATE with Elaine Bleakney and Rachel Meginnes
• – • The Grey Eagle
About the speaker
Rachel Meginnes is a visual artist and creative life coach. Her paintings, made from found and deconstructed textiles, are artifacts of intention, acceptance, and time. As a trusted mentor attuned to the difficulties of being an artist and feeling that call, she has guided artists through growth and challenge, offering them insight, clarity, and the momentum they need to move forward. Rachel lives and works from her home in Bakersville, North Carolina where she first arrived for a three-year residency at Penland School of Craft in 2012 and where she remains part of an interdependent community of artists, connected by craft and the natural surrounds of the Blue Ridge mountains.
Elaine Bleakney is a poet and writer living in Hot Springs, North Carolina. Her book of poems,Take the Exit Then Exit, is new from Understory Books and was a National Poetry Series finalist. Elaine's previous books include For Another Writing Back, an avant-memoir in lyric prose (Sidebrow Books, 2014) and the chapbook 20 Paintings by Laura Owens, an ekphrastic conversation (Poor Claudia, 2013). Her writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Believer, the Yale Review, Literary Hub, and other publications. She has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and the Little Brown Mushroom Camp for Socially Awkward Visual Storytellers. Elaine has taught writing to artists as a guest at Penland School of Craft, Warren Wilson College, the University of North Carolina in Asheville, and elsewhere.
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