JENTEL PRESENTS: Comes to BuffaloResidents at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner will be featured in a public event at Sheridan County Library Inner Circle, 335 West Alger, Sheridan, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 6-7:30 p.m. What does a Western landscape have in common with Saudi Arabia? These are just two of the topics that inspire current residents at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, who will be featured in an event open to the public at DeerFieldDeerfield Boutique and Espresso Café in Buffalo on Tuesday evening, July 1st from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. “Jentel Presents” is a community outreach program that features slide presentations and readings by the visual artists and writers at the residency. Presenters include Dennis Bertram, Buffalo, NY, a painter who takes his tripodeasel out into the hills at daybreak at the residency for paintingplein aire studies; Anne Sanow, St. Louis, MO, a writer who is working on a collection of stories set in Saudi Arabia; Sarah Manguso, Brooklyn, NY, a poet with aboutmany published pieces including a collection of poetry entitled, “The Captain Lands in Paradise”; Mary Henderson, Philadelphia, PA, a painter who currently has a solo exhibitionshow in Chicago utilizing family photographs in an extraordinary style; and David Harmon, Osceola, IN, quite often paints on location using watercolors and pastels and exhibits his work nationwide. Presenters include sculptor Kate Clark, New York City; painter Elaine Defibaugh, Rochester, N.Y.; conceptual artist Charles Gute, New York City; essayist Meredith Hall, Pownal, Maine; ceramic artist Alison Reintjes, Helena, Mont.; and fiction writer Liza Ward, Duxbury, Mass. . The event is free and refreshments will be served. FMI: Lynn Reeves, 307-737-2311.

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