Join us on Monday, May 6th at 6pm at the Castle for Presentations by Director’s Guest Lewis Hyde (USA) & current Fellow Nengi Omuku (Nigeria).
Lewis Hyde,
Writing, USA, Director’s Guest
Lewis Hyde is an essayist and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His most recent book, A Primer for Forgetting, explores the many situations in which forgetfulness is more useful than memory—in myth, personal psychology, politics, art & spiritual life. A MacArthur Fellow, Hyde taught writing and American literature for many years at Kenyon College. Now retired, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman. Hyde is a trustee of MacDowell and a founding director of the Creative Capital Foundation.
Nengi Omuku,
Visual Arts, Nigeria
Nengi Omuku lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria and London. She received her BA and MA from the Slade School of Art, University College London. Recent exhibitions include Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO ; and a solo institutional exhibition, The Dance of People and the Natural World, at Hastings Contemporary. Collections include Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Whitworth, Manchester; Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Monday, May 6th, 2024
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Presentations
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