Artist Talk with Kass McGowan & Eugene Provenzo (Virtual) Sunday, August 17, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm. Kass McGowan and Eugene Provenzo will discuss how the library and The People’s Archive inspired their works in the Washington Sculptors Group 40th Anniversary exhibition Looking Back - Look Forward: Sources of Artistic Inspiration. The third in a series of artist talks presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back – Look Forward: Sources of Artistic Inspiration on View at the Martin Luther King Jr. Menorial Library through September 7, 2025 Register HERE Related Events & Programming Artist Talk with Jeffrey Jenkins, James Mallos, Vienne Rea Thursday, August 28, 2025, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, more info |

Kass McGowan Suggested Dinner Conversation Encyclopedia Series, Various books A – Z, 2022, vintage Damask napkins, various encyclopedia pages, bees wax, wood, fishing line, 13” x 69” x 27”

Eugene Provenzo DC Punk Archive , 2024, acrylic maquette for 6' figure made of rusted sheet metal 24” x 12” x 2”