The Art of Memory: A Conversation with Dale M. Kushner and Viviane Silvera
Event Details
Date
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time
5-6 p.m.
Location
Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art
Description
Join novelist and poet Dale M. Kushner and filmmaker and artist Viviane Silvera for a conversation exploring the intersections of storytelling, neuroscience, and visual art. Centered around Silvera’s film See Memory—composed of over 30,000 hand-painted frames—the conversation will be moderated by Michelle Wildgen, author and Writer-in-Residence at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-263-2246 or email events@chazen.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Thursday, April 9, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.