In her “Aphorisms on Futurism,” Loy wrote: “BUT the Future is only dark from outside. Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light.” Working a century before us, Mina Loy embodied a profound optimism about the possibilities for gender, feminism, and literary experimentation as revolutionary forces generated through aesthetic production and self-consciousness.

Join the artist and designer Megan Heeres and the scholar Suzanne Churchill for a generative hour where we enjoy a playful exploration of Loy’s ideas through hands-on design, art-making, and conversation.