Let’s Talk About Sculpture and Poetry

The Leiber Collection will present “Something About Sculpture and Poetry,” a special event with artist Monica Banks and poet Philip Schultz on Saturday, August 31, at 4 p.m.

Please join The Leiber Collection as Monica and Philip talk about how the visual image and written word have inspired both of them long before they met each other, and how it has intensified and affected their lives together and their family.

Monica Banks’s work is held in several permanent collections including the Parrish Art Museum, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at U Mass Amherst, The Islip Art Museum, and LongHouse Reserve. Her work has recently won awards from the New Britain Museum of American Art and The Heckscher Museum of Art. She created “Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture which stood in Times Square from 1996 to 2009, for which she won an award from The Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Her permanent public works are located in the Bronx, Binghamton, and Charlotte NC.

Philip Schultz is the author of eight books of poetry and two memoirs, including “Comforts of the Abyss,” where he discusses how his early life influenced his writing and the founding of The Writers Studio. His collection, “Failure,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, visit leibercollection.org, email info@leibercollection.org, or call 631-329-3288.