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The Ground Beneath Us Lecture Series: "A Path Through the Woods: A conversation with Michael Brophy and Peter Rock". Building Five Creative Director Daniel Duford moderates this conversation between painter Micheal Brophy and writer Peter Rock. With Forest Park overlooking Building Five, they will discuss the influence of this landscape on their work, how places like Forest Park and the Willamette Valley become characters in the art work and the power and perils of working from a specific place.

Michael Brophy is a painter whose work is about place and the interconnectedness of human, natural, and cultural histories. He has exhibited widely in the Northwest and his work is in numerous collections, including Seattle Art Museum and Portland Art Museum. Publications include the artist’s book Terry’s Map (2018); the monographs Here There Nowhere, with text by Jonathan Raban and William L. Lang (2007), and Michael Brophy Paintings, with text by Charles D’Ambrosio (2003); and The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy (Tacoma Art Museum, 2005).

Peter Rock is the author of the novels Passersthrough, The Night Swimmers, SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves and This Is the Place, as well as a story collection, The Unsettling. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Alex Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award, he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College.

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Danny Wilson and Tracy Schlapp designed a program that assembled more writing from people who are incarcerated. An editorial board at Oregon State Penitentiary works with the two mentors to solicit writing, select, and edit it. Schlapp and Wilson produce on-site workshops at prisons around Oregon to encourage submissions, along with a monthly newsletter for interested writers. The collection is published online at the ponyXpress, a platform that encourages subscriptions — sections are released weekly. Schlapp and Wilson will present writings and workshop techniques with recently released writers.