FMS Mitchell Lecture Series presents Krista Franklin

Writer and artist Krista Franklin presents on her cross-disciplinary practice of writing, papermaking, performing, recording, and collage. Franklin will focus on her work in papermaking and the ways she activates it as vessel, sculptural material, and archive.

Krista Franklin is a writer, performer, and visual artist, the author of Solo(s) (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black  Body (Willow Books, 2012). She is a Cave Canem fellow, a recipient of the Helen and Tim Meier Foundation for the Arts Achievement Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has exhibited at Western Exhibitions, DePaul Art Museum, Poetry Foundation, Le Crédac, Konsthall C, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, and as set dressing for television programs. Her writing and art is in the collections of DePaul Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections, and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection + Archive. She is published in Poetry, Black Camera, The Offing, Vinyl, and a number of anthologies, literary journals, and artist books. 

Image Credit: Developing Black, 2019, Collage, watercolor, and ink in handmade paper/DePaul Art Museum

The Two Thousand & Thirteen Narrative(s) of Naima Brown, 2013, Mixed media, installation photograph/Emily Evans