Poetry Scores: 12 child artists respond to "Ever-Ready Bank Accounts" by Wole Soyinka

Friday, March 23, 2012

12 child artists respond to "Ever-Ready Bank Accounts" by Wole Soyinka

Yesterday I spent an hour with a group of children enrolled at a daycamp at SCOSAG, drawing pictures from imagery in the poem "Ever-Ready Bank Accounts" by Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate in Literature from Nigeria.

My daughter and I picked a favorite from each of the child artists. These drawings, or ones like them, will be curated into the Poetry Scores Art Invitational to "Ever-Ready Bank Accounts" on May 18 at Mad Art.

Each piece is titled by the phrase in the poem that inspired it, and they appear in the order their titles appear in the poem, which is how we hang our art invitational shows.