Join Dr. Paul Werner, from the School of Visual Arts in New York, as he will give a demonstration and lecture on medieval illuminating techniques adopted by the modern illuminators highlighted in the accompanying exhibition. For more information, please contact Nina Rowe at 847.467.2501. The exhibit presents rare images of 1940s Bronzeville and places them in an historical and artistic context for a broad audience. The photographs, taken by Ebony magazine photographer Wayne Miller between 1946 and 1948, have been exhibited at museums in California and have been edited into a book recently published by the University of California Press. These photographs, however, have never been shown in Chicago.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sharon Alter's Road Scholar program , at the Mount Prospect Public Library. Warren Brown's Road Scholar program , at the Watseka Public Library. The book addresses the common struggle of any society to overcome the natural world, as keeping house is considered from the perspective of transience. Such a dissolution of socially-constructed boundaries challenges our notions of what it means to live in the world. The series is free and open to the public, will be held every other Saturday morning, and the library will provide books for the discussion.