Joan Emilie Schirle: 1944-2022
By
North Coast Journal Staff
on
February 4, 2022 at 8:00AM
Her new chamber opera, “Bird of the Inner Eye”, with composer Gina Leishman, was based on the letters of American painter and conscientious objector, Morris Graves, and was produced, after a pandemic delay, at the Arcata Playhouse in 2021. She continued an international collaboration with Danish sculptor Marit Benthe Norheim on her “Life-Boats”, a sailing sculptural installation on women’s lives and migration.
