Live and Talking, Spoken Word Performance

Live and Talking, Featuring Francis Zaander and David Tortuga

In concert with our current exhibition, "Field Guide to North American Happiness: Paintings by Francis Zaander," we invite you to a free spoken word performance featuring David Tortuga and Francis Zaander on Saturday, March 19, from 3 to 5PM.

• David Tortuga, an award-winning poet and legendary furniture mover with a million unpublished pages and three children, will read his work.
• Francis Zaander will expound and illuminate upon a topic of his choosing.

About the Show

A landscape painter, artist Francis Zaander finds intrinsic connections between the natural and the man-made in paintings that combine a specificity of place with larger themes of belonging, spirituality, and reflection on where home is. His recent work follows a personal exploration of the American landscape, from the Midwest to the West Coast and back. His first solo-exhibition in Chicago, “Field Guide to North American Happiness” includes a selection of 25 paintings on paper and panel, many created on site in the Olympic Peninsula between 2018 and 2021. The exhibition will be on view through April 9, 2022. Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, noon - 5PM.