When: Tues, July 21, Doors Open: 6:00p | Presentation begins at 6:30p
Where: The Historic Clark Chateau Museum & Gallery
Cost: Free
Join us at the Clark Chateau for an artist presentation, performance, and conversation with Open AIR's Summer Artist-in-Residence Jory Mickelson. All are welcome!
Topics Covered: tbd
Snacks & refreshments will be provided.
Let us know if you'll be joining us with the optional registration form.
Register for the event here: https://form.jotform.com/261244498893168
About the Artist:
Jory Mickelson is an award-winning writer and storyteller living in Xwotʼqom / Whatcom / Bellingham on the homelands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples.
They are the author of three books of poetry: Picturing (2025, End of the Line Press), All This Divide (2024, Spuyten Duyvil Press), and Wilderness//Kingdom (2019, Floating Bridge Press), which won a 2020 High Plains Book Award. Their work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, the Rumpus, Mid-American Review, and other journals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. They have received fellowships from Dear Butte, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, The Sitka Center of Art, and Ecology, the Jack Straw Writers Program, and the Lambda Literary Foundation.
A fourth-generation Montanan, they love the state's beautiful people and the land which they share.
Find out more about Jory: https://jorymickelson.com/