Opening Reception: Gillespie Curatorial Fellows : College of Humanities & Fine Arts : UMass Amherst

Gemini said Event flyer for "Shakespeare’s Stopped Mouths" by Katharine Cognard-Black. A halftone, stylized image of a person's nose and lips is partially covered by a bright pink horizontal bar containing the title. Details: Host: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. Event: Opening Reception on April 9 at 4:30 PM. Context: A Gillespie Curatorial Fellow Exhibit, Spring 2026. Features: A QR code is located in the bottom right corner.

Opening reception with Katharine Cognard-Black and Abbi Andrews, 2025-2026 Gillespie Curatorial Fellows in Shakespeare & the Book

Shakespeare’s Stopped Mouths
by Katharine Cognard-Black

Shakespeare’s Stopped Mouths foregrounds a single phrase that recurs throughout his work, spanning genre and time. By tracing the gendered stakes of social union, nation-building, and revenge as they are refracted through the repeated phrase, “I’ll stop your mouth,” this exhibit invites visitors to ask: What do we silence when we stop women’s mouths?

Shakespeare and the Colonial Imagination
by Abbi Andrews

This exhibition encourages visitors to engage with familiar texts and images through a lens of Indigenous representation. The plays and travel narratives displayed here are not simply reflections of colonial appetites, they are active participants, shaping how audiences understand the empire and their place in it.

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Opening Reception: Gillespie Curatorial Fellows

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Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies