May Bus Stop Deliverances
Elmira, Corning, NY

April 26, 27 Gathering of People (Meet Your Neighbors of Color)
Tioga County Boys & Girls Club, 201 Erie Street, Owego, NY Demonstration

April 5 Honoring an Escaped Slave
Benefit for the John W. Jones Museum,
an evening in poetry and song 171 Cedar Arts Center Corning, NY

March 22 Poetry Workshop at Steele Memorial Library Elmira, NY

March 23 Poetry Reading at Steele Memorial Library Elmira, NY

March 13 NAMING THE JOY - A Reunion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of ORDINARY WOMEN, an anthology of New York Women Poets (1978) Thursday, March 13, 7:30, At the Sol Goldman 14th Street Y344 East 14th Street, New York City

March 1 Reading with 171 Women's Chorale
171 Cedar Arts Center Corning, NY

March 2 Reading with 171 Women's Chorale
171 Cedar Arts Center Corning, NY

Talk
Books Sandwiched in at the Corning Area Public ibraray On the Empperor of Ocean Park, Janury 15 12-1 Workshops
I'm offering a writing workshop and handpapermaking workshops at 171 Cedar Art Center in Corning, NY. More info here

SPIRIT

at The Hamilton Hill Arts Center Jerry Burrell Gallery 409 Schenectady Street, Schenectady.

Clay and Glass

at Corning Community College includes sculpture, obejects and vessels in these media, December 6- Jan 2003

2002 Irving Berlin Revue
Singing performance at Irving Berlin Revue, July 13, Pleasant Valley Winery, Great Stone Room, Hammaondsport, NY

Art Chat and Papermaking Demo par moi
for the Fine Arts Society of the Southern Tier, June 17 at the 7:30 p.m. in the Vestal Library in Vestal, New York. ( 17/86 to exit 67 )

SEPT 11: ARTISTS RESPOND

Paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, fiberart, poetry, by 40 Ithaca-area artists were included in this sharing of responses to the September 11 attacks and their aftermath at the Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
The exhibit opened Friday, April 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. with performances by the Finger Lakes Women's Chorale and the Ithaca Trumpet Crew.
Two of my works, "The Fires This Time" (painting) and "Another Way" (sculpture) were included. The many visions and voices were both heart wrenching and healing.

I read at the Peaceful Gathering Coffeehouse, on Friday, March 22 at 7:30 in Corning, NY as a part of the annual DIALOGUE THROUGH POETRY WEEK and UNESCO's WORLD POETRY DAY held the week of 17, March 2002. Over 200 poetry readings in 150 cities were held worldwide to discuss "can poetry help create a culture of peace and non-violence in the world?"

I read at the Tombstone Cafe in Waverly, NY, on Friday, February 2, for Black History Month in Waverly, New York, (318 Broad St., between exits 60 and 61 Route 17/I-86). The program featured performances by husband and wife team Jasper and Sharon McGruder from NYC, presenting an evening of theater and song. They've performed at the Nuyorican, LaMama, and at the Edinburgh Scotland Fringe Festival.



I was an artist-in-residence at Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, September 17 - October 6, 2001.

My work was included in "Beans and Rice," an exhibit at the Hamilton Hills Art Center, Inc. in Schenectady, NY, September 9 thru November. More info here.


SoulShip,furnace cast glass, copper, Akua Lezli Hope

My first solo exhibition, SHIELD, was in Chicago at the Miles Aduwaa Gallery, May 11 to August 30, 2001. More info here.

I was on WSKG-Radio's program, on regional writers, "Off the Page," on August 14.

I performed in the Cole Porter Revue at Pleasant Valley Wine Company -- the Summer Performance Workshop conducted by Lynn Winters' Studio of Acting and Voice, in Hammondsport, New York, Saturday July 28.

I won a fellowship to the Hurston/Wright Writers Week July 15-22, at Howard University. Here are images of other writer participants, events and moments: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292460319

I performed my poetry with saxophonist Jesse Bennett on July 5 for the Diversity! Show Series at the Waverly Opera House Theatre, 7-9 p.m., 324 Broad St. Waverly, NY p.m.

My work was included in the Diversity! exhibit accompanying the performance series, opening July 5.

My work was included in the Glass Art From the Finger Lakes Region, June 8-22, 2001, Corning, NY and appeared in Marich Music's window. Images of the Glass Art Society Conference, of which this exhibition was a part, are in this online album: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292531353

2000

2000 started with the Millenium Woman Art Show for the Women's Center of the Southern Tier.

My sculptural debutwas at STUDIO2STUDIO, April 27 to May 27, 2000, CoolArts@The Gallery. A wonderful experience in a beautiful gallery with excellent lighting. Then I finished the year with a flourish at the Second Annual Holiday Bead Bash, exhibition and sale at Whitehouse Books, Dec.2-30, 2000 and the show and sale at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, December 7 to 13.

A recent class in 3-D paper sculpture was as inspiring as my class last century in vacuum forming.

1999

1999 began with the "Something Loving" Valentine's Day Poetry Reading Akua Lezli Hope, Charlie James, Karen Kirby, and Rhonda Morton with Len Vogler on Keyboards, Sunday, February 14, at The Rockwell Museum, Dennison and Cedar Street, Corning, New York, 2 to 4 p.m.

What I did with Summer 1997

I read at the Festival of the Lakes in June, debuted my PaperWorks at the Empire State Crafts Alliance Show in July, and read, spoke on jazz poetry and conducted a poetry workshop at the Chautauqua Institute in August. For details press here.

What I did with Fall 1997
I read at the inauguaration of the Sterling Brown Memorial Visiting Professorship endowed at Williams College and celebrated in Washington, D.C. For comments press here.