On Drawing: Renee Gladman

The poet, novelist, and artist Renee Gladman joins the Menil Drawing Institute Assistant Curator Kelly Montana for a talk exploring how and why Gladman’s recent turn to drawing emerged from a long-established writing practice.
About the artist:
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of thirteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians-"Event Factory" (2010), "The Ravickians" (2011), "Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge" (2013), and "Houses of Ravicka" (2017)-as well as "Calamities," a collection of linked auto-essays on the intersections of writing, drawing, and community, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Her drawings have been collected in "Prose Architectures" (2017), "One Long Black Sentence" (2020), and "Plans for Sentences" (2022). She has been awarded fellowships, artist grants, and residencies from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Lannan Foundation, among others.
About the series:
"On Drawing" is an initiative of the Menil Drawing Institute. Each year, several programs address topics ranging from the history, theory, criticism, and materiality of drawing. Leading academics, curators, and experts in the field are invited to participate alongside Menil curators and conservators.
Visit menil.org/events to learn more about upcoming programs.
Public Program of The Menil Collection, Houston, TX. September 22, 2022.