CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/12/2026

MASS MoCA R&D Store presents 'three six five' author Lucy Ives in conversation with Lauren Levato Coyne

Saturday, September 12 at 5 PM, R&D Store at MASS MoCA presents a conversation with the creator of three six five, a generative guide to exploring the writerly self, moderated by Lauren Levato Coyne. Order tickets here.

In three six five, writer Lucy Ives presents prompts, acts and divinations for both aspiring and experienced authors. Ives' collection of writing exercises opens the door to a new world of possibilities to imagine, think, remember and write. In this inspiring book talk, Ives Traces the lineage of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, and invites the reader (and writer) to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time, to inhabit multiple, other and conflicting perspectives, to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints, to write by drawing, walking, listening and by being distracted.

Lucy Ives is a novelist, poet and critic. Her essay collection, An Image of My Name Enters America, won the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. She has taught at Brown, Cornell, and New York Universities and received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Lauren Levato Coyne is an artist, writer and educator who teaches drawing at Williams College and is a visiting critic at RISD. Her writing is published internationally and can be found in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Art; Boston Art Review; Berkshire Eagle; Brooklyn Rail; Sculpture Magazine, among others. She is the 2026 recipient of the AICA-USA Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism.

MASS MoCA R&D Store
'three six five' with Lucy Ives and Lauren Levato Coyne
Saturday, September 12, 5 PM
1040 MASS MoCA Way
North Adams, MA 01247
413.662.2111

$5 admission fee can be applied to your book purchase at the event.
Your ticket/reservation guarantees you a seat. Standing room may be available on a first come first serve basis.