MISSING DEPARTMENT, a collaborative exhibition by artist Ligia Bouton and writer Matt Donovan, uses visual art and poetry to respond to missing person ads that were placed in pulp fiction magazines from the early 20th-century. The show features drawings, paintings, sculptures, and collages created from the magazine’s original paper, as well as letterpress poems made from erasures of pulp fiction stories. Through elaborate interventions with the magazine’s material and language, this expansive exhibition interrogates desire, empathy, and loss.

In addition to the displayed artwork and poems, this exhibition culminates in a reading at A.P.E. by student poets from Mount Holyoke and Smith College during ARTS NIGHT OUT on Friday, December 9th, 7-9pm