Reading Club: Witness / Rose B. Simpson

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Reading Club: Witness / Rose B. Simpson

Thursday, August 11, 2022 @ 5:30 pm

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Art@Bainbridge

Please join a visit to Witness: Rose B. Simpson and a discussion of themes related to the exhibition including nature, creation and cultural traditions with excerpts from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Milkweed Editions, 2015, pp 3-10 and 341-347. Readings can be found here.

Free registration here.

Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Joshua R. Slocum, Class of 1998, and Sara Slocum; and Barbara and Gerald Essig. Additional support is provided by Stacey Roth Goergen, Class of 1990, and Robert B. Goergen; and the Morley and Jean Melden Education Fund for Prints and Drawings

LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this program has been provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation. 

sculpted bust with visible fingerprints and pieces of clay on face, headpiece sticks out to right
Rose B. Simpson, Femme, 2020. Collection of Emily and Mike Cavanagh. © Rose B. Simpson / courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco / photo: John Wilson White