Jodi Drinkwater received her MFA degree in Creative Writing--Poetry from Wichita State University with distinction. As a poet, Jodi has read and published her work in many venues. The significance of Jodi's work as a poet is that her education in creative writing greatly informs her work as a self-taught painter. Jodi intentionally avoids an education in art in order to maintain a spontaneous, 'naive' quality to her work, while at the same time drawing on her education as a writer in ways that further her work as a painter. Jodi paints large, abstract (and sometimes folk...more
