Artists Connect: Fatimah Asghar

Chicago poet Fatimah Asghar responds to artwork in the Art Institute of Chicago's galleries for Islamic Art. Artists Connect is a new series of in-gallery programs that highlight the creative process. Artists, poets, dancers, and musicians engage with works of art, making connections to their own practice and inspiring new ways of understanding the Art Institute’s collection.

Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. Fatimah Asghar is the author of the poetry collection If They Should Come for Us (One World/Random House, forthcoming 2017) and the chapbook After (2015). She is also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. In 2017, she received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Presented with the Art Institute of Chicago