Art as Poetry, Poetry as Art: A Craft Talk about the Nexus of Literary and Visual Art

The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host a craft talk by mixed media artist Lauren Wolk and poet Brett Warren, based on their collaborative BothAnd exhibit (November 19, 2026 – February 28, 2027). The talk will focus on the crossover between visual and literary art, including processes, layers, revision, and physical composition.

The talk will be followed by time in the exhibition spaces, where Warren and Wolk will discuss specific linkages between the “BothAnd” poems and artwork and answer questions. Free with admission to the museum.

BothAnd is a collaborative exhibition of poetry by Brett Warren and visual art by Lauren Wolk that invites viewers to venture beyond the habits of binary, “either/or” thinking and embrace a more expansive “both/and” perspective, one spacious enough even for opposites. BothAnd reflects how those opposites can coexist side by side, interconnected—old and new, broken and whole, birth and death, grief and joy, presence and absence, seen and unseen. The exhibit encourages this perspective through literary and visual images that work both independently and together, inspiring contemplation and discovery of their layered meanings.