Kalamazoo, Michigan writer Lynne Heasley’s residency with the Glen Arbor Arts Center is bat-centric, and a springboard for writing about the natural world and how it intersects with the human world. Heasley will talk about her essay-in-progress at a public presentation on August 21, 10 am. The program is open to the public at no charge.
During her residency, Heasley will “develop a creative nonfiction environmental essay titled ‘I Remember the Bat Room’ ,” she said. The piece is the prologue for “reconsidering my grandparents’ dilapidated, never-painted, 1900 farm house in the 1960s and ‘70s — what its smells taught and might still teach about our relationships within more-than-human worlds; about transcendent meanings of ‘home’; about biodiversity in even humble places.”
The GAAC has been hosting visiting artmakers as part of its residency program since the 1990s.
