Poster Image
Item#: 2026SYR04
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
A framing coupon, good for a 20 percent discount at Edgewood Gallery, a custom frame shop at 216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Poem Inspiration Location
Quarter After Now
poster information
Description
Quarter after now,
Waiting for the announcement.
Yahoo! A Snow day!
I taught art in the Syracuse City School District for twenty-three years before retiring to concentrate on my own art. While teaching, a snow-day was always an unexpected gift for the teachers as well as the students. I am not a poet or writer. I think this poem worked because it came from personal experience.
I’ve lived in Syracuse for my entire career; first as an art teacher, and since as a fantasy and steampunk painter. I’m currently working on a book that combines my paintings with haikus, as well as participating in various art fairs and exhibits in order to sell my work.
I grew up in Central New York and currently live in Central Massachusetts where I teach elementary school art. I chose to illustrate Izzy Dugger’s poem, because (even though I have always loved school) it reflected the excitement I felt as a child and now as a teacher when a snow day is declared.
Since the Poster Project theme this year is “quarters,” I painted a few extra details like the cuckoo clock set at 6:15, ¼ cup of orange juice on the shelf, and quarters ready to be saved in the collector’s book. I included Major, my Basset Hound, wishfully looking out at the snowy scene, listening to the radio set to WSRS for the list of school cancellations, and hoping for an unplanned day of fun.