L. Renée shares her artistic process as the 2026 Mountain Artist in Residency at West Virginia University Libraries. She researched more than 600 pages of environmental, geological and community archives on mountaintop removal coal mining at the West Virginia and Regional History Center. Her culminating project, “Remain,” is an interdisciplinary poetry and performance exhibit. L. Renée documented her process of making “Remain” in her studio, while she was in residence at UCROSS in Wyoming.
L. Renée reads poetry and shares conversation with Sean Murphy, executive director of 1455, a literary arts organization based in Winchester, Virginia, in partnership with The Peter Bullough Foundation for the Arts.
L. Renée responds to a piece of art in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art collection at Indiana University, and shares a poem about her selection. She also joins poet Just Duléa, in conversation with Laura Scheper, the museum’s interpretation and public experiences manager.
L. Renée shares work on three episodes of the Poets Weave, a weekly program of poetry readings hosted by Romayne Rubinas Dorsey, produced by WFIU Public Media from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
L. Renée shares poems and materials from her family collection during an artist roundtable conversation with poet Just Duléa and visual artist Christina Elem. The gathering, sponsored by the Indiana University Arts & Humanities Council, celebrated Juneteenth.
