In a conversation and reading, Emily Rapp Black, award-winning author of “Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World,” explores art and disability in her most recent book “Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg,” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23 at an in-person event at Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium.
The reading is part of the museum’s Parallel Stories Controlling the Narrative: Both/And series.
With elegance and tenderness, and without sentimentality, Rapp Black deconstructs the mythologies of words like bravery and resilience and recognizes in Kahlo a twin at the art of creating to silence pain.
Joining her will be colleague Alex Espinoza, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside and author of novels “Still Water Saints,” “The Five Acts of Diego Léon,” and the recent nonfiction book “Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime.”
Cost to attend is $5 for museum members/$10 non-members. Purchase tickets at tickets.sbma.net.
Visitors to events in SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium must show proof of being fully vaccinated or, in some cases, supply a negative COVID-19 medical test result (taken within 72 hours prior to each event), along with an official photo ID, before entering the venue.
Visitors must follow SBMA’s mask policy and wear a mask in accordance with recommendations of the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and California’s Department of Public Health’s mask guidance. Capacity limited to 50 seats.