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University Art Gallery Nine African American Quilters A display of boldly colored and asymmetrically designed quilts, which are on loan courtesy of a private collector in the New Haven area, represents the work of nine quilters from rural Alabama. These women worked primarily in Boykin, Alabama, an isolated area surrounded on three sides by the Alabama River. The collector, as a VISTA volunteer there in 1973, lived with a black family and attended local church services. He became fascinated with the quilts being created by area women, and he found parallels between the aesthetic characteristics of the quilts and the gospel music he heard in their churches. The quilts are on view in the Matrix Gallery of the American arts wing.
Center for British Art Cooking the Books: Ron King and Circle Press For 35 years, Ron King has worked with more than 100 artists, writers, and poets in his Circle Press, which he formed to “draw together a circle of like-minded people” to make books. A retrospective of the works of Circle Press, a complete set of which the BAC now holds, celebrates the gift from Ron King and his wife of archival material relating to Circle Press projects. This collection includes drawings, plans, prototypes, texts, posters, plates, cutting and creasing forms, and some wood and metal type, much of which is on view. Taken together, the books and the archive make the BAC’s holdings the most comprehensive collection of Circle Press works in the world, and they offer a glimpse of one way that the creative process works in book production. The display reveals how Ron King “cooks the books” by carefully documenting the myriad details of every publication—from his first doodle in a spiral-bound notebook through various permutations to its eventual emergence as a work of art.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library America Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest A display of approximately 100 books explores the variety and range of book collecting by Paul Mellon '29. The exhibit includes 16th-century accounts of early European exploration and examples of 19th-century children’s literature, along with works depicting American historical events, illustrated trade literature, and art and architectural manuals.
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival From July 5 through August 24, some of the world’s most acclaimed musical artists will descend upon this tiny town in the northwest corner of Connecticut to appear in the 61st annual Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. An arm of the Yale School of Music, the Festival coincides with the School’s summer session, which brings up-and-coming musicians to Norfolk for opportunities to study and perform as Fellows of the Summer School. Highlights of the 2002 season include a celebration of Richard Rodgers’s Centennial on August 2, five appearances by the Tokyo String Quartet, and a multimedia presentation illuminating the music of Ravel and Debussy with prints and paintings.
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