What drives artists to place creativity at the core of their existence? Is it \;a compulsion\, a calling\, or a stab at immortality? In her new memoir Art Above Everything\, Ste phanie Elizondo Griest weaves the sacrifices she has personally made for h er books into \;the narratives of scores of other women she has interv iewed around the \;world\, from a classical dancer in India to a playw right in Rwanda. Griest reveals how a cancer diagnosis at age 43 radically shifted her own \;perspective. Join us for a \;multi-media presen tation about global women artists followed by a frank discussion of the jo ys and torments of the creative life. \;
\n\nAbou t the Author:
\nStephanie Elizondo Griest \;is a globet rotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands. Her six books include&nb sp\;Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow\, Beijing\, and Havana\; < em>Mexican Enough\; All the Agents and Saints\; \;and \;A rt Above Everything: One Woman&rsquo\;s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life. \;She has also written for the \;New York Times\, Washington Post\, VQR\, The Believer\, BBC\, Orion\, \;and \;Ox ford American. Her work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation\, Henry Luce Foundation\, Princeton University\, and the Institute for Arts and Humanities\, and she has won a Margolis Award\, an International Lati no Book Award\, a PEN Southwest Book Award\, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. Currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the Unive rsity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\, Elizondo Griest has performed in cap acities ranging from a Moth storyteller to a literary ambassador for the U .S. State Department. Wanderlust has led her to 50 countries and 49 states . Her hardest journey was to Planet Cancer in 2017\, but she&rsquo\;s offi cially in remission now. She recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos\, a research grant for student journalists from the borderlands enrolled at he r alma mater\, the University of Texas at Austin&rsquo\;s School of Journa lism.
\nQuestions? Contact lizg@deschuteslibrary.org \;
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