The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery.

Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. Stools...

A “hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones), Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant--sometimes with songs. Tatarsky experienced fleeting fame as Andy Kaufman’s daughter and used to perform as a mound of dirt. They are currently touring their falling apart bildungsroman about wanting to die, Sad Boys in Harpy Land, and their compost clown lecture-performance Dirt Trip. MATERIAL, an improvisational...

Iowa (Mason City) native Josiah Hesse will read from his new book, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right – a Personal History. A blend of his personal story about the trauma of growing up within a strict evangelical family and the story of Mason City as a community, On Fire for God describes Hesse's "fear, shame, and poverty" and includes a researched exploration of the Christian Right's historical and political influence on America's working class. This...

Daniyal Mueenuddin will read from his new novel, This Is Where the Serpent Lives. Described as a "stunning new work," This Is Where the Serpent Lives takes place in contemporary feudal Pakistan, "following the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters whose lives are linked through violence and tragedy, triumph, and love." Publishers Weekly praises it as "a profound and revelatory portrait of Pakistan’s class divisions," while Booklist says: "Intricately layered. . . . Mueenuddin writes...

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, The New York...