BELLEFONTE — ‘Word and Image: The Poetry of Robert Lima” will be featured during April at the Windows Gallery of the Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte.
An opening reception takes place from noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 2.
The exhibition will include 20 to 25 poems by Lima and a variety of images that will illuminate the subject of each poem. The accompanying art works are by many different artists, as well as Lima, and employ several mediums.
Mounting the exhibition is a result of the multidisciplinary nature of the Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, according to a press release. As a “celebration of the human spirit,” the museum promotes both visual creativity and the written word with art shows, poetry sessions and dramatic readings.
Lima has published nine books of poetry and has been awarded numerous prizes. He began writing poetry as an undergraduate at Villanova University and spent some time in Greenwich Village as a poet. He is a professor emeritus of Spanish and comparative literature and fellow emeritus at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Studies at Penn State.
Lima has been recognized for his contributions to language and poetry and was named knight commander in the Order of Queen Isabel of Spain. He is academician of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
The exhibition is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
