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I'm proud of my wife, Tisha. This weekend she's participating in 48 Hours of Art . From Cool Cleveland:

It's the art world's version of reality television when twenty-two artists convene at B.K. Smith Gallery for a weekend of creating art while living in the gallery for 48 hours starting Sat 8/30 thru Sun 8/31 from 12 Noon to 7:30 PM. The event is open all weekend to the public to meet the artists and discuss their work, giving audiences a glimpse into the complexities of generating art. Artworks produced will be installed in the gallery and remain on view through 10/3. This year's group includes painter and CIA Assistant Professor Daniel Dove; Cool Cleveland.com Senior Editor and poet Tisha Nemeth, plus several experimental and visual artists including conceptual installation artist Blake Cook, photographer Hadley Conner, filmaker Cindy Penter, and sculptor/performer Doug Meyer. An opening reception Fri 9/12 with artist discussions will be open to the public at the gallery as well. This event is sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council and by the Harriet B. Storrs Fund of The Cleveland Foundation. At Lincoln Fine Arts Center on the Campus of Lake Erie College. For info call Lyz Bly, Director, at 521-8582

It's one thing to write, it's another to publish, a third to read, but to share a space with 20 other artists, share your work (she's writing on the gallery walls) and have people follow the progress is a unique experience. It takes her to a whole new level in her career. If you have time, please stop in for a visit. Make sure you put the reception on your calendar as well.

Tisha Nemeth, a poet once stationed in Boston and Los Angeles has set down roots in Cleveland. With a BA in art history, her poetry is based on her work experiences in art galleries and museums: The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Harvard's Fogg Museum, and the Frick Collection in NYC. Her poems have appeared in: HazMat Review (Rochester, NY) Peralta Press (College of Alameda, CA), RiversEdge (University of Texas), Curbside Review, This Hard Wind, Poet Magazine, Unknown Writer, Brutal Imagination, Cleveland's own ArtCrimes, and other literary reviews. In 1997 she was one of fifteen poets selected nationally to present her manuscript to U.S. poet laureate, Richard Wilbur, at the Key West Writer's Workshop in Key West, Florida. Currently, she's the lit-obsessed Senior Editor for Cool Cleveland.com. Aloft by Tisha Nemeth (based on the works Terpsichore by Antonio Canova, and Erato by Charles Meynier at the Cleveland Museum of Art) The eyes' disjunctions travel Over skin fluid as poured milk, Where the lyre is hung, beauty lies And the muse belies its high cost From which men slake thirst's ache over Her marbled horizon; taken up Positions among the periphery Of life to orbit her with distant eye, Speechlessness is her recompense. Costly is her complex inspiration; Charts its course absorbed in men's Curved cornea, her arms and legs Hardened, bare like colonnades Leave them ravenous, all at once The poem's words fall like accidents Their worship is undue, They are all her wounds, old and new. She deserts her true self where Their continuing longing clangs its praise Until she sees their banishment, she will not rest Not one beautiful thing escapes unpunished. © 2003 Tisha Nemeth