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Mondays at Beinecke: Rick Bartow's Artists' Books with Anya Montiel

Anya Montiel, curator of American and Native American women’s art and craft, jointly at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian, will speak on the artists’ books of Rick Bartow. Bartow (1946 – 2016), an enrolled member of the Mad River Band of Wiyot Indians, is considered one of the most important leaders in contemporary Native American art.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3mXjvYL

Art & Protest: Victoria Lomasko on a Trip to Minsk

Victoria Lomasko is an artist, journalist and writer who has described her preferred genre or medium less as documentary comics or graphic novellas than live “graphic reporting.” Born in Serpukhov, Lomasko graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts with a specialty in in graphic art and book design. A fixture at Moscow’s protests and political trials, Lomasko exposes the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia’s many voiceless citizens.

Mondays at Beinecke: Words for the Nation - Readings from the Collections

On the eve of election day, the weekly gallery talk series will feature a special set of readings by Yale faculty, students, and staff of prose and poetry from the collections that speak from the past, in the present, to the future. Drawn from library collections, readings will include works by Langston Hughes, Rachel Carson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Penn Warren, and James Baldwin, and selections from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Mondays at Beinecke: Jean Toomer and "A Drama of the Southwest" with Vinson Cunningham

Vinson Cunningham, staff writer for The New Yorker, will discuss Jean Toomer and his unproduced play from 1935, “A Drama of the Southwest.”
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3nQEZb0
Toomer was, in Cunningham’s description, amodernist poet, novelist, religious omnivore, and occasional playwright .”

Mondays at Beinecke: The Songs of Cole and Johnson Brothers with Lisa Williamson

James Weldon Johnson, along with his brother, musician J. Rosamond Johnson, and showman Bob Cole, made up one of the most successful songwriting teams of the first decade of the twentieth century. The trio actively worked to elevate Black stage performance away from minstrelsy, the only avenue available for Black performers at the time, by challenging societal expectations at the turn of the century through their popular songs and stage shows.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/2GIZw06

Mondays at Beinecke: Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder’s Wedding Photos, Westport, 1955, with Frank Mitchell

Public historian and curator Wm. Frank Mitchell will discuss the 1955 wedding photos of Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder by Saul Mariber from the Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. The photographs (for an example, see: https://bit.ly/3ivQEs4) document the wedding of De Lavallade and Holder at Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, and their reception at Clarence Derwent House.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/2GEL6OT

Mondays at Beinecke: Amos Beman Scrapbooks with Charles Warner, Jr.

Mondays at Beinecke (online) gallery talks continue on Monday, October 12, with a discussion of the scrapbooks of the Rev. Rev. Amos Gerry Beman, a Black minister in New Haven, Connecticut, and a national leader during the mid-nineteenth century. The presentation will be led by Charles Warner, Jr., Chair of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church, where the Rev. Beman was pastor from 1837 to 1857.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/2HK9W0l

Mondays at Beinecke: Edwin C. Schroeder on Dorothy Porter Wesley

Mondays at Beinecke returns, virtually! Mondays at 4:00 pm during the academic year, all are cordially invited to gallery talks, online for now, with Beinecke Library staff, researchers, and friends.
Monday, October 5, 4 pm: Beinecke Library Director Edwin C. Schroeder will speak about the Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers. Zoom registration required: https://bit.ly/2Eu6vcG

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