CURRENT NEWS!

555 is located at 4884 Grand River Ave. at Warren in Detroit, MI. The fundraiser began at 6:00 PM and ended at 2:00 AM. Donations of $10, $20, $40, $100 can still be made at www.555arts.org. Neri's scene was directed by John Jakary. Find more about the inspiration for Neri's new performance play at The Williams Wing.

Barbara Neri judged performances and taught workshops for the Michigan Thespian Festival 2007 on Friday November 30 & Saturday December 1, 2007 at the Warren Consolidated School for the Performing Arts located at 12901 Fifteen Mile Road, Sterling Heights, MI. Contact John W. Rutherford for more information: Email jr08bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us Phone: 248-203-3580. The Festival is a project of the Educational Theater Association of Michigan.

Neri's latest article was published in May 2007, "Cobridme de flores: (Un)Covering flowers of Portuguese and Spanish Poets in Sonnets from the Portuguese," in the 2006 Bicentenary issue of Victorian Poetry devoted to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Click here to Access this article and issue online.

Visitors can now go to you tube: http://www.youtube.com/ and type 'Stilnovisti' into the search window and find video excerpts of the art and performance of Barbara Neri.

Visual art work by Barbara Neri from The EBB Project was exhibited in "Venus of Willendorf: Redefining the Goddess" an exhibition sponsored and curated by Feminist Artist Project Michigan. The two works by Neri juried into the show were "Sonnet 1 (Minerva Descends)" and "Isis & Sylvia (Plath): Mirror Image." The exhibition was held at the Duderstadt Gallery in the Duderstadt Center on the North Campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The exhibition opened February 9 and continued till February 26, 2007. The Feminist Art Project Michigan is part of a national effort to recognize the aesthetic and intellectual impact of women on the visual arts and culture. The national project is administered at Rutgers University and can be explored here http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/.

Click here to read Neri's Artist Statement for the show and see images of the work.

Ms. Neri is currently at work on her contribution to a new edition of EBB's complete works forthcoming in 2009 (Pickering and Chatto). Click here to go to the Publishers Site. She is an associate editor of the edition contributing her research on EBB's "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Below are the 44 Sonnets in Neri's studio. Neri is also working toward a book length project of art/criticism on EBB's 44 Love Sonnets.

The Visual Art and Installation work of The EBB Project is now listed in the Michigan Humanities 2006 - 2009 Touring Guide. Go to Michigan Humanities Site to learn about available grants to assist nonprofit groups and schools in hosting The EBB Project.

Ms. Neri was honored recently when The Fund for Women Artists chose her photograph for their fund raising video. Seen below, the photo was taken during a performance of "The Consolation of Poetry" at the 2005 NY International Fringe Festival. Click here to see more photos of this performance.

Barbara Neri's "Matter of Life & Death (Bolero)" was featured in and on the cover of London based e-zine STIMULUS-Respond. Go to Writing to download a free PDF of this article or the entire issue # 13.

An installation from the piece featured above, "Matter of Life & Death (Bolero)," was exhibited at the Work Gallery September 2006 in Ann Arbor, MI. Click here to read the statement Neri wrote for this exhibit see images and learn how this earlier work connects to her current work.