The Madison Arts Commission is inviting the public to attend the opening reception for the 2024 Madison Municipal Building Art Exhibition, titled “Everything but the Dinosaur: Art With & About Youth,” and meet the city of Madison’s newest youth poet laureate, Justin Festge Russell, on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Russell is the third youth poet laureate for the city of Madison and will serve a one-year term, giving three public readings alongside the current Madison poet laureate during that time.
Russell’s poems will be published in the national youth poet laureate annual anthology, and Russell will have the opportunity to apply for the national youth poet laureate role in the fall. To be eligible, applicants must be between the ages of 13 and 19 at the time of selection and must reside within the city of Madison.
The Madison Municipal Building Art Exhibition will include work by Jennika Bastian, Angela Johnson, Meghan Johnson, Poornima Moorthy, Roberto Torres Mata, and Sonia Valle. The reception will be held from 4:30–6:30 p.m. in Room 206 on the second floor of the Madison Municipal Building at 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
