Exhibition Opening with Christopher Myers and Jacqueline Woodson

GRAND LOBBY 

BPL Presents welcomes you to the opening of the exhibition Christopher Myers: Unbound, featuring a conversation with two award-winning powerhouses: visual artist/author Christopher Myers and author Jacqueline Woodson. 

Myers’ new works set loose the pages of books into the space of the library. Two 40-foot tapestries feature a montage of characters and settings from often banned literary works, like George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. In recreating vivid stories, the tapestries both convey and counter the weight of ongoing book bans and challenges across the United States. These works are shown alongside stained-glass panels from his forthcoming children’s book, Night Ride (Penguin Random House, 2026). This spirit of defiant curiosity, of travel and worldbuilding that imagination and the arts endow us with is the message and medium of this exhibition. 

The conversation between Myers and Woodson gives us a window into the experiences and sensibilities of two visionaries as they navigate the current encroachments on artistic and literary expression and find ways to uplift their audiences and uphold their work.

Refreshments will be served.

About

Christopher Myers (b. New York City in 1974) is an artist and writer whose work across disciplines is rooted in storytelling. Myers delves into the past to build narratives that speak to the slippages between history and mythology. His diverse practice spans textiles, performance, film, and sculptural objects, often created in collaboration with artisans from around the globe. He has worked with traditional shadow puppet makers in Jogjakarta, silversmiths in Khartoum, conceptual video artists in Ho Chi Minh City, young musicians in New Orleans, woodcarvers in Accra, weavers in Luxor, metal workers in Kenya, and textile printers in Copenhagen. These collaborations are driven by his interest in understanding the ways in which globalization is intimately intertwined with notions of self and community. A playwright as well as a visual artist, Myers has an enduring interest in the theatrical. Myers notes of his multidisciplinary practice, “I am interested in speaking as many languages as possible to reach as many people as possible.” 

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