In this combination art/poetry workshop, you'll learn how to create art inspired by poetry as well as poetry inspired by art! We'll look at some examples from famous as well as local artists. Jesse Brunette of Scrappy Hour Art will guide you in creating a piece of scrappy collage art based on a poem; then Sheboygan Poet Laureate Anneliese Finke will show you how to write a poem based on a piece of visual art.
All supplies are provided, including paper for collaging and poems. However, if you have a favorite poem, feel free to bring a copy (that you don't mind cutting into!).
My style is a sort of literal surrealism or magical realism, and yet I believe very strongly in clarity. If I could ask one thing of a reader or listener, it would be to really try to picture what I’m describing in my poetry. Like Chagall’s figures who float through the air, I am trying to capture a world that is both clear and real but also strange and magical – ordinary and extraordinary all at once – as though perhaps these two things are not as different as we assume.
I received a BA in creative writing from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland. I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan; I have also worked as a teacher, a librarian, a bookkeeper, and as the archivist for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. My work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Ruminate, The Georgetown Review, the anthology The Lake Is Mother To Us All, and Creative Wisconsin.
Jesse Brunette is a Sheboygan resident who stumbled into collage art as a "scrappy accident" in early 2025. After seeing a collage workshop event on Facebook, she got curious and decided to try to make one of her own. Over a glass of wine while watching Jeopardy, she created a fictional character, Iris.
From that night on, she was obsessed, pouring a glass of wine and sitting down each evening to create a new portrait, each with a fictional bio, storylines often subtly overlapping. She shared her creations with family and friends on social media. Before long, she started creating pet portraits, landscapes and more, and her brand "Scrappy Hour" was born.
She now offers commissioned pieces, teaches collage workshops, and mobile collage party workshops, Scraps on Tap.
Jesse is a Registered Nurse who left healthcare in 2024. She and her husband own a construction company and an outdoor adventure rental business. She has 4 children and 2 dogs, and an unhealthy obsession with thrifted books and art.
Saturday, 4/18, 1-3 PM
$50