Spoken Word with Ty Chapman, Keno Evol, & Andrea Jenkins

Join us for an afternoon hour of spoken word with Twin Cities based poets Ty Chapman, Keno Evol, and Andrea Jenkins, as part of a series of related events for the exhibition, A Picture Gallery of the Soul at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery. RSVP is required: https://z.umn.edu/RegisRSVP.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ty Chapman is the author of SARAH RISING (Beaming 2022,) A DOOR MADE FOR ME, written with Tyler Merritt (Worthy Kids 2022,) & LOOKING FOR HAPPY (Beaming 2023); as well as multiple forthcoming picture books through various publishers, and a forthcoming poetry collection. A previous version of the collection was long listed for Button Poetry’s Chapbook contest, and Frontier Magazine’s 2021 New Voices contest. Ty’s accomplishments also include being named a Loft Literary Center Mirrors & Windows fellow, Mentor Series fellow, and attending Vermont College of Fine Arts in pursuit of his Master’s Degree in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Keno Evol is a writer, arts organizer, and the founder of the Black Table Arts cooperative—a pay what you can art co-op for black artists in Minnesota located in south Minneapolis. He is editor of A Garden Of Black Joy: Global Poetry From The Edges of Liberation And Living. His work hones in on the literary arts and the black radical tradition as curriculum for the future. Evol has been published in Split This Rock, Radius Lit, and Vinyl. His essays are available at MNArtists.com, through the Walker Art Center.
 

Andrea Jenkins made history in 2017 as the first African American openly trans woman to be elected to office in the United States. Now serving as Council President, she is also a writer, performance artist, poet and transgender activist. Jenkins worked as a staff member on the Minneapolis City Council for 12 years before beginning work as curator of the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota’s Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. She is a 2011 Bush Fellow to advance the work of transgender inclusion and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships.
 

This exhibition is proudly part of TC Arts week October 12-16, 2022. Learn More.