Reception: The Brautigan Poetry Project: Paintings by Courtney Blazon

Missoula artist and illustrator Courtney Blazon shares a body of work inspired by her lifelong passion for Richard Brautigan’s poetry.
As an adult artist, “I recognized that the only way I could express my complete devotion to the words of Brautigan and to the meaning they had had in my life for nearly 30 years was to make a body of work about my own personal, feminine experience, through the lens of the wild, sometimes misogynistic, idiosyncratic, and truthful words of his poetry.”
The reception also includes Brautigan’s Willard and His Bowling Trophies, read in its entirety, with a live score by Don De Vore (Collapsing Scenery, Ink and Dagger).
The evening will end in the premiere of Kansas Bowling’s short film, “Curiously Young Like a Freshly Dug Grave.”