Wyoming Arts Council

Echo Roy Klaproth conducts children's creative writing workshop May 16 at Brinton Museum

Featured News | May 12, 2015

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The Brinton Museum in Big Horn will host Wyoming Poet Laureate Echo Roy Klaproth on Saturday, May 16, for a two-hour children’s creative writing workshop held on the museum grounds. This event is presented in conjunction with Science Kids and is offered as a free program to children.

A first-ever collaboration with Poet Laureate Echo Roy Klaproth and Science Kids, this special outdoor writing workshop uses the fascinating world of science to explore the creative soul, poetically, by taking a micro and a macro look at life-forms that abound all around us. A walking tour of The Brinton Museum’s beautiful Quarter Circle A Ranch will explore its fields and meadows as well as Little Goose Creek that runs diagonally through the property, and Trabing Creek to the east. From tiny organisms that live in the micro world of a small pond to the expansive forests in the tallest canyons of the Bighorn Mountains, Echo will bring to life how poetry and science relate artistically.

Participants will be guided by Echo to discover patterns and colors in nature and express their meanings in various short essays or poems. Suggested ages are 9 to 12. Space is limited. Please call Science Kids Executive Director Sarah Mentock at 307-763-0976, to register in advance. Participants will meet at 9 a.m. on the south patio of the Main Ranch House. Admission to this event is free.

Echo Roy Klaproth will be available following the workshop to meet museum visitors in the Reception Gallery. Echo is a resident of Shoshone and a fourth-generation Wyoming rancher, retired teacher and ordained minister. She is the author of “Echoes in the Wind”, “Echoes of Days Gone By”, and “Words Turn Silhouette,” all collections of prose and poetry. She also produced “A Nameless Grace”, a CD of poetry dedicated to ranch women, as well as “Scattered, Lasting Remnants”, a collections of “fine lines” from 20 years of cowboy poetry gatherings from around the United States.

The Brinton Museum located in the foothills of the majestic Bighorn Mountains is a fine arts museum devoted to preserving the art and history of the West through permanent exhibits in the historic Quarter Circle A Ranch House once owned by Bradford Brinton. The Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Building at The Brinton Museum opening in June will feature an extensive collection of historic American Indian art as well as Western art of the late 19th and early 20th century and offers contemporary shows in various media by living artists.

FMI: http://www.thebrintonmuseum.org

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