Fishtrap and Oregon Humanities will present a special interactive event with educator and spoken word artist Jason Graham, aka MOsley WOtta, 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21. The audience will engage in a discussion about creativity, expression and how artists must take risks.

Fishtrap is at 400 E Grant St., Enterprise. Admission is free.

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today’s artistic economy, to what extent is exposure — to other people and of the creative self — desirable? 

This is the focus of “What We Risk: Creativity, Vulnerability and Art,” a free conversation.

Graham is a Chicago-born, Oregon-based artist and educator. He is a former slam poetry champion for the state of Oregon and is currently an art ambassador for Rise Up International in association with the U.S. Department of State. He has been featured multiple times as a TEDx speaker and performer. Most recently, he worked as a journalist in Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia, for Vice magazine.