Writers@Grinnell Welcomes Riva Lehrer, Thurs., Oct. 27, 2022, 8 p.m., Grinnell College Museum of Art

4:15 p.m. Roundtable; 8 p.m. Reading; Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022

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August 30, 2022

Thurs., Oct. 27, 2022, 8 p.m., Grinnell College Museum of Art

Riva Lehrer is an innovative and award-winning artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized.

Lehrer’s work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian; Yale University; the United Nations; the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; the Arnot Museum; the DeCordova Museum; the Frye Museum; the Chicago Cultural Center; and the State of Illinois Museum.

Awards include the 2017 3Arts MacDowell Fellowship for writing; the 2015 3Arts Residency Fellowship at the University of Illinois; the 2014 Carnegie Mellon Fellowship at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges; and the 2009 Prairie Fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation. Grants include the 2009 Critical Fierceness Grant, the 2008 3Arts Foundation Grant, and the 2006 Wynn Newhouse Award for Excellence, (NYC), as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the University of Illinois, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published by the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House in October 2020. Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University.

Also, join Lehrer for a Roundtable event at 4:15 p.m. in HSSC, S1325.

Grinnell College welcomes the participation of people with disabilities. Accommodation requests may be made to Conference Operations.

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This venue is equipped with an induction hearing loop system, which enables individuals with hearing aids set to T-Coil to hear the program.

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