Join celebrated artist and writer Maira Kalman, the Library’s Spring 2025 Cultural Fellow, for an evening of art, words, and wit. She’ll share insights into her singular career spanning illustration, storytelling, and design, present her latest book, Still Life with Remorse, and screen her short film on Alice B. Toklas.
In conversation with American Library in Paris Curator of Cultural Programs, Rachel Donadio.
This offsite, ticketed event will take place at Maison de la Poésie (157 Rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris).
About the speaker:
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York City with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. She now lives in Manhattan.
Kalman has written/illustrated over 30 books for adults and children. She has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the New Yorker. She has created textiles for Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade and sets for Mark Morris. Other collaborations have been with Nico Muhly, Alex Kalman, Michael Pollan, David Byrne, John Heginbotham and Gertrude Stein. Her watch and clock designs appear under the M&Co label, the design studio created by her late husband Tibor Kalman.
She has won many awards and given numerous talks, including several TED talks. Her art has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.
Maira Kalman is the American Library in Paris Spring 2025 Cultural Fellow.
