Zoom call hosted by Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum featuring Jill Krutick, creator of “Coral Beliefs,” and Michele Navakas, author of Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America (Princeton University Press, 2023) on Friday, July 14th, 2023 at 4 pm EST

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84622657962

In a real life “coral reef” story…an artist and a writer both complete milestone projects on the fascinating topic of coral reefs during the summer of 2023. The artist — Jill Krutick — met the writer — Michele Navakas — during Krutick’s exhibition of the monumental 84-foot-long “Coral Beliefs” artwork at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum in Hamilton, Ohio. Navakas is a professor of English and an affiliate of the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at Miami University, located in Oxford, Ohio, just 30 minutes away from Krutick’s museum exhibition. Navakas just published a literary and cultural history of coral, Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America, TEN years in the making!