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Event name

Book Club

When

Mon 10 / 04 / 2021
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Where

Via Zoom

Who can attend

Open to all

Limited capacity: Registration Closed

Price

FREE

Title: Old in Art School:  A Memoir of Starting Over

Author: Nell Painter

Pages: 352 

Library Copies: 11 now Available at the Palisades Library

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school—in her sixties—to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.

 

How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what “An Artist” is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?