Challenged by Art

About this event

Join us for a special poetry reading inspired by artworks in the Kemper Art Museum’s collection. Writers pursuing doctoral studies in Comparative Literature and Thought as part of the International Writers track will read a selection of poems and prose written in response to gallery visits, artwork on view, and their own creative interests.

Contributing writers:

Elise Bickford

Elijah Frydman

Dabin Jeong

Winniebell Xinyu Zong

Matthias Goeritz, PhD, Professor of Practice of Comparative Literature

During this program, the Museum will also highlight a limited-edition artist book created in collaboration with students from the Sam Fox School’s MFA in Visual Art program. Over the course of the semester, participating students have met across their departments to collaborate, share ideas, and respond visually and verbally to selected artworks at the Museum and to one another’s artistic practice. A selection of the poems read in this program are included in the limited-edition book, along with original artworks by the visual artists.

Contributing visual artists:

Cecelia Grant

Jiwoo Kim

Sabrina Kliza

Alina Senchenko

Sophie White

Christopher Woodward

Emma Xhaxho

From Kemper Art Museum at WashU