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Parallel Stories

Parallel Stories is a literary and performing arts series that pairs art and artists with award-winning authors and performers of regional, national, and international acclaim. This series functions as a multidisciplinary lens through which to view the Museum's collection and special exhibitions.

Upcoming Events

Parallel Stories – Film Screening - In a Whisper (2019)

promotional poster for film showing line drawing of two heads facing away from one another as the lines feed into the title treatment

Sunday, April 12, 2026
3 pm
Mary Craig Auditorium

Parallel Stories – Memory Rehearsal: Eleni Sikelianos

side by side photo of a woman in a white coat with her arms crossed standing in front of an old structure with big columns and on the right the cover of a book titled Memory Rehearsal featuring two female figures facing each other

Thursday, May 21, 2026
5 – 6:30 pm
Mary Craig Auditorium

Parallel Stories – No Way Home with T.C. Boyle

Thursday, May 28, 2026
5 – 7 pm
Mary Craig Auditorium

Parallel Stories – Roberto Tejada on the Poetry of Latin American Photography

a portrait of the author in glasses and a dark suit side by side the cover of his book

Sunday, June 14, 2026
11:30 am
Mary Craig Auditorium

Maggie Nelson: “The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift”

photo of woman with red lipstick and a grey sweater looking into lens

Sunday, March 8, 2026
2:30 – 4 pm
Mary Craig Auditorium

Building a House with Cellophane Bricks

diptych featuring a portrait of the artist in a dark coat staring into the camera on the left and a cover of the featured book on the right

A Reading and Conversation with Jonathan Lethem

Book signing to follow.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025
5 pm

Sea of Ice, Ocean of Sand Part 2: The Bordered Self and the Slow Grief of Time with Tony de los Reyes and Forrest Gander

triptych of event speakers flanking the cover of Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander

Sunday, June 29, 2025
2:30 – 4 pm