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Watts Program in the History and Culture of the Book
By Donna DiMichele | March 28, 2011
The Watts Program in the History and Culture of the Book at the John Carter Brown Library is presenting two public events in the month of April. These will be the final events of the year for the Watts Program. Please come and bring a friend.
Monday, April 4, 5:30 PM Moveable Books and Book Collecting
Margaret B. Stillwell Prize Evening with Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Brown ’01) the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago who will give a talk on moveable books in the Renaissance with comparisons to books today. The Stillwell Prize evening is co-sponsored with the John Russell Bartlett Society. It is a prize awarded by the Bartlett Society to RI undergraduates for their book collections. Ms. Karr Schmidt won the prize in 2001. Open to all. Venue: John Carter Brown Library.
Wednesday, April 27 6:00 PM Watts Pecha Kucha
The Book in My LIfe – An eclectic evening of very-short talks by professionals and students to close the Watts Program series on Transformations of the Book.
A wide variety of practitioners and students reveal their thoughts on “The Book in My Life” in a series of Pecha Kucha-style presentations. 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide – the clock is ticking. Expect tales of literature, shelving and entertaining reflections on the eccentricities of paper and ink. Ideal for anyone who’s ever liked a book a little more than they really should have. Moderated by Andrew Losowsky, Watts Program Provocateur-in-Residence. Open to All. Venue: John Carter Brown Library.
For information, contact Lisa Long Feldman
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