ethyrical artist & writer
I was accepted into an Artists Residency program in Southern Spain and attended in October, 2012 where I met Krystyna Lenkowska, who was an Artist-in-Residence at Valparaiso for poetry and translation. She was translating Emily Dickinson’s poems into Polish (Lenkowska’s native tongue) for an upcoming book. Lenkowska frequently asked for […] Read more »
Donia had 2 paintings accepted into the Pastel Artists of Hawaii 10th Annual Open Juried Show, with one of her paintings – Primordial Memory, a mixed media work of art from her Evocations series – receiving a Juror’s Merit award. The art exhibition can be viewed from October 7th […] Read more »
The artists’ reception for the Kauai Museum Preview Exhibit Donia has been organizing for the Women Artists of Kauai 2nd Annual Open Studio Tours was last night. The exhibit will be at the Kauai Museum until Oct 31. The Studio Tours are Oct 12 & 13 for Lihue to Waimea […] Read more »
One of my poems was featured by AROHO for their Radical Brief Poetry (#radbrief) online: Mother’s Balloons your balloons floated away today: you lost hold of them somewhere on Second, followed them with your eyes as they traveled down Center, abandoned them to the sun at 30,000 feet. and now, as I sit […] Read more »
Kauai artist Donia Lilly’s abstract pastel painting “Blue Violet II” (from her Evocations series) won Honorable Mention in the Pastel Artists of Hawaii 2012 Annual Juried Show. The show took place in Honolulu on Oahu, so unfortunately Donia was unable to attend the Awards Ceremony or the exhibition itself. The juror was award […] Read more »