The Clifton Arts Center presents “Poetry, Paintings & A Story” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Linda Hillringhouse from Wednesday, September 20th to Saturday, October 14th. 

On Saturday, September 23rd from 1pm-4pm there will be a Meet & Greet reception opening for the artists. 

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an award-winning, nationally known poet with more than twenty books to her credit, the latest being When the Stars Were Still Visible, published by the Stephen F. Austin University Press. She is Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at Binghamton University, SUNY. 

Linda Hillringhouse has exhibited her work at the Newark Museum, Yale School of Art, Ben Shan Center for the Visual Arts at William Paterson University, among other venues. She is included in the 20th Century Self-Taught Artists Archive at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. She was a first-place winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award and second-place winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her book of poetry, The Things I Didn’t Know to Wish For was published by the New York Quarterly Press.

The Clifton Arts Center is located on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex on Well Road.  For more information visit www.cliftonartscenter.org