Chris Semtner 9/20/24
Artist, author & curator of The Poe Museum
Chris Semtner is the curator at The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. He has curated critically acclaimed exhibits for museums and galleries across the country, including his Library of Virginia exhibit Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster, earning the praise of The New York Times. His latest exhibit, Mystery of Mysteries: Paintings by Chris Semtner, runs through October 26 at Visual Arts Studio in Richmond.
His exhibits for The Poe Museum earned awards and honors from TIME Magazine and USA Today, among others. Using innovation to bring Poe to new audiences, Semtner has collaborated on performances with a diverse variety of groups, including ballet, historians, and even cemeteries.
Chris regularly speaks about a variety of unusual, obscure, and macabre subjects to groups of all ages around the country and as far away as Japan. His book, The Poe Shrine: Building the World’s Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection, tells the strange but true stories behind The Poe Museum’s artifacts.
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