Tue, Apr 28
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Megan O'Grady, How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves
A vital testament to how art makes us who we are—and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. In conversation with Lucy Lippard, writer, feminist, and activist.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 28, 2026, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Pre-order How It Feels to Be Alive ($29.00, hardcover, publishes April 21) online from CWB here or call the store to pre-order (505) 988-4226.
Barbara Kruger once defined art as “the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive.” Testing that claim, How It Feels to Be Alive braids criticism with personal narrative to consider art’s intimate effects and how it might help us find clarity in an uncertain world.
When Megan O'Grady was a teenager, she saw a photograph in a museum that changed her life. At the end of an early marriage, art stoked new ways of thinking about connection and transformation. As a new parent, it guided her to confront vulnerability and shame. Whether seeking a home or contending with personal, political, and ecological crises, art was a critical…