Franz Werfel and Kinga Araya, two artists whose political exile occurred fifty years apart, are the subject of this Penn Library exhibition. Werfel, a Prague-born writer fleeing Nazi Germany, settled in a community of artists in California. Kinga Araya, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum this year, fled communist Poland in 1988 to become a mixed-media artist. Join us for a conversation between curators and Dr. Araya, with videos exploring identity and homeland, displacement and loss, exile and relocation.

Exhibition runs 16 January – 13 April 2007.