January 2019
Creative Community: Senior Social
Join us for coffee, conversation and connection while learning about the art on view. Enjoy engaging docent-led tours of Outrageous Ornament: Extreme Jewelry in the 21st Century and mingle over coffee and treats.
Find out more »Creative Community: Imagine It After School
We invite families to drop-in and enjoy interactive pop-up activity stations, gallery games, and art projects around the KMA. Get inspired by Outrageous Ornament: Extreme Jewelry in the 21st century and experience the exhibition in a new way. Recommended for all ages. Member price: Free Non-Member price: Free with Museum admission
Find out more »April 2019
Poetry Reading: Major Jackson
Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (2017) Holding Company (2010) and Hoops (2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry and Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. He is also a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner…
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Poetry Reading: Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro has published over ten books of poetry, most recently Life Pig (2016); Reel to Reel (2014), a finalist for the Pulizer Prize; Night of the Republic (2012), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize; and Old War (2008), winner of the Ambassador Book Award. A memoirist, essayist, translator, and novelist, as well as a poet, Shapiro has also authored the memoirs Vigil (University of Chicago Press, 1997) and The Last Happy Occasion (University of Chicago Press, 1996). He published his first novel, Broadway Baby (Algonquin Books), in 2012. Shapiro has…
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