Tag: poet-in-residence
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Messages from a Bottle
Poets Eithne Longstaff and Ann Cuthbert have collaborated on a renga, a call-and-response form that engages two or more poets in a collaborative journey of imagery and associations threaded together in couplets and haiku. ‘Messages’ was made over a number of weeks, by email, to reflect the Bottle of Notes associations of messages sent and…
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Messages from the Bottle
We’re delighted to announce our two MIMA poets-in-residence for 2025 will be Ann Cuthbert and Eithne Longstaff, with a collaboration inspired by the Bottle of Notes sculpture. MIMA are hosting a whole exhibition of work by the Bottle’s creators. The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen considers the role…
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AI Call to Action: Empowering Creatives to Tackle Algorithmic Bias and Shape a Sustainable Future
As creatives, writers and visionaries, we hold a unique power to shape the future of technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new creative tools, but it also presents profound challenges – particularly with algorithmic bias, where AI systems reflect and amplify biases already present in society and within ourselves.
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A poetic job application
This autumn, our poet-in-residence at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art is Sarah Crutwell. This is our fourth residency at MIMA, and it was the hardest yet to between talented and passionate applicants. With a brief to respond to the Towards New Worlds exhibition of art by disabled and neurodiverse visual artists, it was clear that…
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Pottery Poetry
Up on the top floor of MIMA, there is a shiny white room full of display archive cabinets, where a gorgeous collection of contemporary ceramics sit quietly behind glass. Delicate, paper-thin bowls and substantial stoneware vases, crazy spouts and glazed sculptures – and a flat screen spinning images of the wonderful vessels you can see,…
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Behind the scenes at a bookshop residency…
Stockton was buzzing, or maybe growling, about Home Secretary James Cleverley MP, and his very public comment about Stockton being a sh*thole.
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Rebellious joy!
Caroline Walling, the Curious Ink-Smith, is about to be the very first TWP poet-in-residence at DRAKE the Bookshop, so we thought we’d ask her what’s it’s all about and how people can get involved… What does a bookshop poet-in-residence do? I wasn’t entirely sure at first, but I had a LOT of ideas about things…
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A Child’s Eye View
How does a poet-in-residence turn the conversations they have with the public into a body of original work? Read on for reflections from Audrey Cook, thinking about her three poems in MIMAzina issue #32 and how they came about from working with children at MIMA’s Art Trolley during the exhibition People-Powered: Stories from the River…
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These little tributaries of ideas…
We are nearing the end of our first poets’ residency at MIMA, which will culminate in Audrey Cook and Sara Dennis performing new work written in response to the art and audiences of the People-Powered exhibition at MIMA’s Art Social #13 this Thursday 26th November, from 5pm-7pm. As our poets prepare to share their work…
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People-Powered Poetry!
This summer and autumn, we will send two poets to be in residence at MIMA, responding to their ‘People Powered’ exhibition.
Tees Women Poets 