On January 23 from 12:00-1:30 pm, as part of MLK Week 2026, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program. This year’s theme is A Call to Consciousness. Readers will include WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors of WSU creative writing publications.

All students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to bring a poem to read during the open mic portion. Poems may be original compositions or selected from the work of another author, though they should engage with the themes of the day. Before and after the program, visitors are encouraged to view current museum exhibitions, including “Color Outside the Lines” and “Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins”, both from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation.

In collaboration with the Holland Terrell Library’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), the event will be accompanied by a letterpress printing of a relevant poem.

This program takes place live in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery and will be livestreamed on the WSU System YouTube channel.

Image | National Day of Racial Healing: Writers Give Voice Open Mic, January 16, 2025

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.