About
In Allan and Mary Kollar’s new book, A Season of Vision and Voice, we find winter distilled to imagination and experience. For four decades, Allan and Mary Kollar have reached out to friends and family over the winter holidays with a card to epitomize winter’s charm and alarm.
Allan’s art evolves from his training as a printmaker, having received both BFA and MFA under the mentorship of such artists as Jacob Lawrence and Keith Achepohl. An ornithologist by avocation, much of Allan’s work depicts bird life on the Pacific Northwest’s Hood Canal.
In the tradition of ekphrastic poetry, Mary Kollar writes for the images a poem that the cards inspire. Mary publishes in literary magazines. Her collection Something Borrowed: Poems of a Daughter and Mother reached readers in 1996. The Kollars value their beginnings together in high school classrooms where they taught their art. The side-by-side poems and images are followed with discussions by poet and artist about their craft.