North Pulaski Branch hosts a Women’s History Month art exhibit in March.
These are acrylic paintings on paper handmade by Inara Cedrins using onion skins, manila envelopes and turmeric rice to give the paper a golden hue. Cedrins was a teacher in China for five years, having gone there to learn to paint in Chinese ink on silk. She uses espresso and Chinese ink as a tint to give a dark border to paintings relating to night. She is a writer and often uses fragments of poetry in her works.
Cedrins will give an artist talk at 1 p.m. March 1 at the North Pulaski Branch.
The artist will also give a poetry reading from her newly published Baltic Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Three Books for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia at 6 p.m. March 6 in the Chicago Authors Room on the 7th floor of the Harold Washington Library Center.
