gallery - Marcy Rae Henry's Portfolio

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August 2019. Chicago Artists Coalition.

June 2019. Chicago State University. Gwendolyn Brooks Day.

Nora Brooks Blakely (Gwendolyn Brooks' daughter) gave an amazing, inspirational...

happy birthday Ms. Brooks, Prince, "Nikki" Giovanni Jr.

April 2019. New Orleans Poetry Fest.

March 2019. Reading with Yesenia Bello for her show: My...

March 2019. From the FB page: "Drawing on the exhibition's...

March 2019. More of Yesenia's work.

January 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Poetry Marathon and Benefit.

January 2019. Milwaukee, WI. Woodland Reading. 'Dedicated to the families...

November 2018. 'Island of Abundance' reading. Next to the painting 'Petroglyphs,'...

November 2018. 'Island of Abundance' reading. Next to the painting...

October 2018. Performance at Notre Dame. Blake Nemec, Jen Karmin and...

Laura Goldstein.

Sara Goodman at Notre Dame Performance.

September 2018. 100,000 Poets for Change Reading with Char Lee...

August 2018. National Poetry Slam's "Station to Station" open mic water taxi...

July 2018. Sitting with high school friends before doing stand up...

May 2018. Jennifer Karmin and Blake Nemec, Women and Children First...

April 2018. New Orleans Poetry Festival group performance. Douglas Kearney, second...

April 2018. NOPF. Courtesy of Laura Vena.

when poets wax humble.

April 2018. NOLA after MOTD spontaneous performance.

January 2018. Poetry Marathon, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI....

Fall 2017. Forthcoming on the cover of a brujeria/witch magazine. ...

Fall 2017. 100,000 Poets for Change.

Spring 2017. HWC students performed with me at Red Rover Series' 100th...

2015. Red Rover Performance, In Defense Of... Members of the audience...

2015. About to take a bow with students after our...

After bow with HWC students.

2014. Returning to Chicago for Museum of Contemporary Art Rules...

2008. Barbara's Bookstore Reading with Greg Borzo, whose book in on...

Reading/Book signing. Albuquerque, NM. I was told, 'Go sit by...

CTA Reading with Greg Borzo. [CTA book wouldn't have had...

Unedited promotional pic for The CTA Chronicles. Courtesy of Tom Guagliardo....

2007. Women and Children First Bookshop with my colleague Prof. Amanda...

2006. CTA Chronicles Book Release. Con mi colega, Prof. Margarita Chávez....

2004. 1st Chicago Reading

2004. Reading with 1st Chicago writer's group: NOLT (Night of...

Rockin out at Patricia Barber's cabin in MI.

1986. Award-winning performance with mi mami.

The Attempted Erasure of 1848. Acrylic and crayon on canvas....

todas las lineas no son iguales. acrylic and watercolor on...

When Browns Get Mixed Up. Journal entry, July 2016. Watercolor...

pinches paredes. Leftover house paint on found wood.

Dirty print/dirty poem. Photo taken in India ca. 1996, ink...

The Patriarch. Found photo, scotch tape, paint.

Saudade. Watercolor, charcoal and the ex's makeup on used packing...

Detail: woodcut prints, prints of torn love letters and found...

buried memories. Paint, crushed clay, earth from Chimayó and water from...

Mother, Daughter and The Holy Conch. Watercolor and pencil on...

flag caught on barbed wire. watercolor.

Gnome Chompsky. Ink on paper.

From Indian haiku series. Watercolor and makeup on recycled paper.

From Indian haiku series. Watercolor on recycled paper, text on recycled...

Indian haiku series. Recycled paper.

blue as the lagoon. for iceland. accompanies poem by the same name. ...

blue as the lagoon2. for iceland. accompanies poem by the...

strangers become lovers become strangers once more. painted to accompany...

bailadora y boobs

Prototype for novella Soles Cracked from Sun and Snow.

Heart [with eye and finger] prototype 2 for Jesú Estrada's...

DNA. Ink, lead, fingerprints. One of various images made for...

i only caught the tail end...

Chalk sketch of Kullu, one of a couple of sketches...

mick is sick. for mick. double haiku with watercolor and...

Where the Wild Things Went. Albuquerque, NM. Pastel put to paper for...

Screen. Lake Geneva, WI. Polaroid of woven strips of celluloid attached...

Made at Pottery in Paradise Studio, Coral Bay, Virgin Islands—which was very...

stoned homer or play-doh v. homer. Washington, D.C.

2014. Student-made vagina piñata for music, movement, spoken word performance at Poonie's...

Detail. Donations from Poonie's acquiescings + hauntings performance supported the Duncan...

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