When it comes to the creative life and more generally to crafting a beautiful life, so much of the dance is one between inspiration and drought, motivation and complacency, flow and wrestle. Whether it’s the life of a working artist like our three panelists, or any individual, from college students to new parents, a young professional to a retiree, one who desires to live a life with purpose must confront these dynamics, to navigate them, and perhaps even to relish in the push and pull, and perhaps more importantly to do the work, through action and reception, of shaping our souls. 

Join the Collegium Institute on Friday April 11th for a panel conversation exploring these questions and more. We’ll be joined by poet & sewist, Amy Bornman, composer & musician, Joshua Stamper, and painter, Lee Nowell-Wilson, moderated by the director of our Ars Vivendi Arts Initiative, Jess Sweeney, herself a painter and writer.

Panelists:

-Amy Bornman, poet & sewist

-Joshua Stamper, composer & musician, 

-Lee Nowell-Wilson, painter

Date: April 11, 5:30-7pm

Location: Penn Newman Center (111 S 38th St, University City Philadelphia)