An Invitation
June 11, 2016
Dear friends and fellow history-lovers,
You are invited to join a large-scale collaborative art installation titled: Writing in Stone. The project highlights the most transformative and inspiring history of Wisconsin with the heart and soul of the message coming from people like you.
Writing in Stone invites you and your book-club to read any of the books on the enclosed list and share your responses. As you read, keep an eye out for quotes or passages you find particularly inspiring and which represent significant ideas from our Wisconsin heritage. The passages you select may be used for the project in the following ways:
Some texts will be engraved on the 25 sculptural monuments. Shorter is best for this purpose.
Some texts will be spoken by living “speaking statues” and “speaking trees”.
Some texts will be read at live-microphone events at art exhibit venues.
Some texts will be included in reading materials and a companion book.
Your discoveries can be less than a page or shorter. Spoken texts can be up to 5 pages.
I believe we will find that the best ideas are timeless, in that they bring those who have gone before into a place of shared humanity with those who are living today, and those who are yet to come. Some ideas will be quite serious—but humor and beauty figure mightily. Let us not overlook great fish stories. I can’t wait to see your findings!
Please send your selections in on or before September 1, 2016 so we can incorporate them into the project. Contact Dory with any questions or additional book suggestions you may have. Please include the author, title and page of your selections.
See the Writing in Stone book list. Happy reading!
Terese Agnew,
Project Artist/Organizer
Dory Domanowski: Literary and Historical Text Director
Send entries to Dory: writinginstone9@gmail.com
Writing in Stone
P.O.Box 175 Elroy, WI 53929
