Conversation, Poetry and Sculpture

Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 2002. Painted wood and wire. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. © 2018 Joel Shapiro/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Hayden Visiting Artist Joel Shapiro and poet Peter Cole discuss the sculpture of poetry and the poetry of sculpture with Pamela Franks, Senior Deputy Director and the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Cole also reads poems inspired by Shapiro’s work. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Joel Shapiro: Plaster, Paper, Wood, and Wire.



Generously sponsored by the Hayden Visiting Artists Fund.