Creative Insights | Gallery Talk with Laura Simms
Award-winning storyteller Laura Simms blends ancient myth with personal narrative in a gallery talk tied to the Come Together exhibition.
Why we picked this
Laura Simms has spent decades recovering the connective tissue between ancient myth and lived experience. This talk puts that work directly in dialogue with a 3,000-year survey of storytelling.
Laura Simms is the artistic director of the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Series in Central Park and one of the most celebrated storytellers working in the United States. Her practice draws from world mythologies and oral traditions, threading them through personal true-life narrative in ways that feel both archaic and immediate.
This gallery talk is part of the Morgan’s Come Together exhibition, which traces storytelling across 3,000 years of human culture. Simms is one of the few living practitioners whose work genuinely spans that scope — from ancient myth cycles to contemporary autobiographical performance — making her an unusually fitting voice to bring the exhibition to life.
Admission is free. The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue, New York.