September 17, 2026 | 6p - 7p

Tickets: $10  |  MMAM Members + Students: $5

This event is part of MMAM’s Third Thursday event series

Join us for an evening of conversation, connection, and community as award-winning authors Anna Farro Henderson and Tamara Dean take the stage alongside local community voices for a timely discussion on climate, creativity, and collective action. Through their acclaimed essay collections, Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Motherhood and Politics and Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless, Henderson and Dean weave science, policy, and personal experience into powerful reflections on our relationship to the natural world and one another.

This engaging program explores how art, storytelling, and community can help us navigate climate anxiety and imagine meaningful change. Community organizations will also host booths where guests can learn more about local climate issues, clean energy, healthy soils, and ways to get involved close to home. Discover how turning toward each other may be the most powerful response to an uncertain future.

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About the authors:

Tamara Dean is a widely published author whose latest book, Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), invites readers to step into the Driftless Area and consider how we tend the earth in times of uncertainty, what we owe our neighbors, and ways we thrive in community. Reviewers call Shelter and Storm "luminous," "fascinating," and "a revelatory study of person and place, entwined" (Star Tribune). Her award-winning essays and stories have appeared in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She teaches workshops independently and through writing centers across the nation. More at tamaradean.media.

Anna Farro Henderson is a PhD climate scientist who worked as an advisor in the U.S. Senate and to Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton. Her book, Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood, was a 2024 INDIES Foreword winner and a 2025 Clara Johnson Finalist. She has done over 50 book events across the country, including a series of events in rural communities supported by a Minnesota State Art Board grant. She teaches at The Loft Literary Center. You can find her online at www.annafarrohenderson.com

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