Art - 2009

TELLING A BOOK BY ITS COVER

Wendell Minor and the Art of Illustration
Wendell Minor, illustrator of the cover art for Warner Books’ popular edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, discusses how his art interprets text. Past President of the Society of Illustrators,member of the Children’s Book Council, and current trustee of the Norman Rockwell Museum,Minor’s program will include a slide show.

Downtown Library, Program Room, 3rd Floor
Sunday, March 22, 2:00 p.m.

TO ILLUSTRATE A MOCKINGBIRD

Student Art Competition Awards
Cash prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place winners of the contest to create a new cover for To Kill a Mockingbird by judges: Wendell Minor, Bill Thomson, and Andrea Wisnewski.

Downtown Library, Program Room, 3rd Floor
Sunday, March 22, 3:00 p.m.

MEMORIES TURBULENT OR TENDER

In collaboration with The Big Read, the Hartford History Center presents an exhibition from Hartford actress Gwen Reed’s personal scrapbook entitled “The Sincere Testimony to anxiety, labor, patience, time and cordial, constructive criticism and to Memories turbulent or tender of the Connecticut Federal Theatre October 1936 to May 6, 1939.” These files also chronicle the early development of African American theater in Hartford – the Charles S. Gilpin Dramatic Club (1922).

Scrapbook cover photograph:

Hartford actress and activist Gwen Reed’s scrapbook documents African American theatre in Hartford during the Great Depression.




GR Trilogy in Black photograph:

A scene from Trilogy in Black by Ward Courtney, performed by the Negro Unit of the Connecticut Federal Theatre at the Avery Theater in Hartford, June 1937.


Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Downtown Library
February–March 2009.

MEMORABILIA FROM THE 1930s

View collectibles from the era.

Albany Branch
March 9–13, 2009.

Park Branch
March 2–31, 2009