Event Calendar
| Date(s) Sort descending | Event | Event Type | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 18, 2025 - September 19, 2025 | Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 explores the early months of 1775 in Massachusetts, the battles of April 19, and their immediate aftermath, giving an account of the events that ignited a nearly eight-year Revolutionary War between the British Empire and its American colonies. In addition to original historical letters, documents, maps, and artwork from the Clements Library's holdings, the exhibition features never-before-exhibited manuscripts on loan from the collection of Dr. Gary Milan. Mon - Wed, & Fri 9am - 4:30pm William Clements Library Ann Arbor, MI More info |
Exhibits | Midwest |
| April 19, 2025 - November 9, 2025 | Open + Shut: Celebrating the Art of Endpapers
Endpapers are the unsung glory of contemporary children’s publishing. Once a purely functional form—sturdy pages glued to the inside of a book’s cardboard covers—endpapers today are often full of wit, surprise, and even deep emotion. As one of the first (and last!) visual elements readers encounter when interacting with a book, endpapers set the mood for the story inside. These can extend the main story, offer a conceptual take on a theme or action, or provide additional visual and narrative information. Original work by more than 30 artists. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 Central Gallery Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| May 30, 2025 - September 14, 2025 | Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron explores the path-breaking career of photography’s first widely recognized artist. Cameron (1815–1879) was born in Calcutta modern day Kolkata) to a French mother and an English father; in 1848, with her husband and children, she moved to England, where her sisters introduced her to the elite cultural circles in which they traveled. Residing on the Isle of Wight, where she was close neighbors with the poet Alfred Tennyson, Cameron acquired her first camera at age 48. In only eleven years she would create thousands of exposures and leave an enduring image of the Victorian era as an age of intellectual and spiritual ambition. Cameron’s prodigious drive helped her become a probing portraitist of leading writers, artists, and scientists, such as Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, G.F. Watts, and Charles Darwin, while her absorption with fine art, notably Renaissance painting, led her to create staged tableaux in a mode that has been perpetually rediscovered by photographers down to the present. Most distinct of all was Cameron’s wholly personal handling of her medium. Heedless of contemporary conventions of technique, alert to the happy effects of accident, and indifferent to critical scorn, she embraced a style of spontaneous intimacy that distanced her from the photographic establishment of her time and class. Motion blur, highly selective focus, and even fingerprints on the glass negatives (which required developing before their emulsions dried) are among the idiosyncrasies of her singular oeuvre. Cameron was quick to exploit publishing and promotional opportunities: at London’s South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum) she secured not only an exhibition in 1865 but, a few years later, studio space, and she was the first photographic artist to be collected by the institution. Arresting Beauty features prints from its initial purchase and from subsequent additions to its holdings, which have grown to number nearly one thousand. The exhibition includes Cameron’s large camera lens (all that survives of her apparatus), pages from her unfinished memoir manuscript Annals of My Glass House, and portraits she made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) after Cameron and her husband moved there in 1875. Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat & Sun 10:30am - 5pm The Morgan Library & Museum New York, NY More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| June 14, 2025 - January 4, 2026 | The Art of Grace Lin: Meeting a Friend in an Unexpected Place
A prolific writer and artist, Grace Lin’s twenty-five-year career spans board books, early readers, and middle grade novels, garnering Caldecott, Newbury, and Geisel honors along the way. Lin is a dedicated advocate for diversity in children’s book publishing, with a popular TEDx talk, “The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child’s Bookshelf” and created the video essay, “What to do when you realize classic books from your childhood are racist?” for PBS News Hour and New England Public Radio. This career retrospective of more than 80 works will celebrate all aspects of Lin’s creativity with original art, sketches, manuscripts, and videos. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 East Gallery Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
