Join us for what is bound to be an enlightening talk about writing, making art, the creative process and what moves these two creatives to make what they do. Light refreshments provided.

Kerry Hirth is a visual artist who paints music. Her colorful, linear, pastel paintings are presented in gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally. She collaborates with composers and performers, including the creation of new compositions, backgrounds for live performance, and a program on improvisational jazz and visual arts. Locally, she performed a live demonstration with the Missouri Symphony Society and has a large-scale work installed in the Bond Life Sciences Center atrium. She has numerous private, public, and corporate commissions. Kerry has a special interest in bat conservation and uses her skills as an artist to promote understanding of bats and awareness of their extinction, including a show of her work at Mammoth Cave National Park. Kerry believes that music arises from our life experiences, and her paintings seek the source of music in the many different ways we process, value, and communicate our experience of the world around us. She lives and works in Columbia, Missouri.

Andrew Mulvania is the author of a collection of poems, Also in Arcadia, published by the Backwaters Press (an imprint of The University of Nebraska Press). Recent poems have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review and Smartish Pace. He has twice been a writer-in-residence at the Chautauqua Institute and was awarded an Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He lives and writes in Columbia, Missouri.