Join us at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Orr Street Studios for creative writing by Donald Quist and paintings by Mike Seat.

DONALD QUIST
Donald Quist is author of the linked story collection For Other Ghosts and the essay collection Harbors, a Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner and International Book Awards Finalist. His writing has appeared in AGNI, North American Review, The Rumpus, and was Notable in Best American Essays 2018. He is creator of the online micro essay series PAST TEN, and co-host of the Poet in Bangkok podcast. Donald has received fellowships from Sundress Academy for the Arts and Kimbilio Fiction. He earned his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is currently a Gus T. Ridgel fellow in the English PhD program at University of Missouri.

MIKE SEAT
Artist Mike Seat paints plein air landscape, portrait, figure, and still life oil paintings. Savoring the beauty of our world motivates him to express on canvas what one might ordinarily pass by unnoticed or take for granted. In this way, he feels grounded, peaceful, and happy -- all feelings he wants to share with others through his paintings. Most of Seat's work is done from life. In the Impressionist tradition, his landscapes are painted outdoors and completed in the studio, as Monet did. Figures, portraits, and still lifes are usually painted with the subjects present.