Booking and details
Dates Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 4:30pm
Tickets Free
Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows will share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by casual open conversation. Tea and coffee will be provided.
This is a free event. No registration required.
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
Speakers
Suzette Marie Martin
Suzette Marie Martin is a mixed media painter based in New England.
KhoKhoi (mary alinney villacastin)
KhoKhoi (mary alinney villacastin) is a movement-based artist and a plant, body & cultural worker.
See what our fellows are researching
Painting the birds of Shakespeare
Folger Artist Fellow Missy Dunaway shares what she’s learning while working on The Birds of Shakespeare, her project to paint the 65 birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s works.
Working Through the Tangle: Language, Archives, and Practice
What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?
Miscellaneous Race
Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany
Artist Elise Ansel Reimagines Macbeth
Ansel shares how her questions as an artist fellow about Fuseli’s take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth inspired her to create two abstract, large-scale oil paintings but this time from a woman’s perspective that celebrates the play’s sisterhood.
Anthony Burgess and Shakespeare
You probably know Anthony Burgess as the author of A Clockwork Orange, but did you know he was also a prominent commentator on Shakespeare’s life?