Artists bring color to Poetry Festival

Meet Skagit River Poetry Festival artists Alfred Currie and Anne Schreivogl, who created the Festival poster and cover for this year’s student anthology, respectively.

Lifelong artist Alfred Currier spent his formative years in southern Ohio. He received his formal education at Columbus College of Art and Design and the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where he earned his degree in fine art. He is an artist member of the prestigious Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago.

Currier is noted for his use of brilliant color and texture, as well as his focus on the figure, specifically in agriculture. He has an interest in uplifting the lives of migrant farmworkers and has been active in advocating and assisting outreach programs.

His works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. We welcome Al to the Skagit River Poetry Foundation Family.

As a spontaneous, creative and intuitive artist, Anne Schreivogl seeks to capture the unnoticed delights in life onto canvas, in a whimsical colorful style.

Born and raised in Seattle, Schreivogl received her formal education at Western Washington University and the Seattle Academy of Fine Art (now GAGE) where she attended as an arts grant recipient of the Anacortes Arts Foundation.

She has always carried a pen and sketchpad – whether she has studied in France, taught English in Japan or during her travels by bicycle across the U.S. “With my art I seek to transmit the joy I see and feel in everyday moments onto canvas.

My last name ‘Schreivogl’ means ‘screeching bird’ and birds often find their way into my art.” We welcome Anne to the Skagit River Poetry Family.

The 10th biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival is from May 17 to May 20. Tickets: [email protected], 360-399-1550 or skagitriverpoetry.org.