MAKING ART IN THE MODERN WORLD: Choreographer Kyle Marshall, above, will be joined by author Lorrie Moore and poet Paul Muldoon in an “Atelier@Large” event on October 10. (Photo by Tony Turner)

On October 10 at 7:30 p.m., Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts continues the Atelier@Large conversation series that brings guest artists and intellectuals to campus to discuss the challenges they face in making art in the modern world.

For the second conversation in the 2023-24 series, Princeton professor Paul Muldoon, director of the Princeton Atelier, will be joined by Bessie Award-winning choreographer Kyle Marshall and fiction writer Lorrie Moore. The event is held in Richardson Auditorium and is free, but tickets are required. Visit tickets.princeton.edu.

The Princeton Atelier was founded in 1994 by Toni Morrison. The Atelier brings together professional artists from different disciplines and Princeton students to create new work in the context of a semester-long course that culminates in the public presentation of that new work. Recent artists have included Stew, Laurie Anderson, the improv group Baby Wants Candy, and the Wakka Wakka Puppet Theatre.

The Atelier@Large series, established in 2021, is an extension of the Princeton Atelier that brings guest artists and intellectuals to campus to speak on art’s role in the modern world. Among recent guests were Hernan Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Joy Harjo, Sarah Hart, Jennifer Homans, Michael J. Love, Jonathan Majors, Darryl (Run DMC) McDaniels, Anais Mitchell, Suzanne Nossel, Lynn Nottage, Claudia Rankine, and Tom Stoppard. This year’s series is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books.

“Being an artist is tough enough at the best of times,” said Muldoon, “but it’s particularly difficult just now. Artists are coming under pressure from numerous orthodoxies, to both left and right, as to what they must or must not do. Most insidious, perhaps, is the form of self-censorship that has artists second guessing themselves. In addition to honoring some of our finest minds, the Atelier@Large series provides a rare enough forum in which some of these ideas may be aired.”