$25 Not-yet-Members
$20 Museum and Mount Members
5 pm Anita Kunz Exhibition open for viewing
6 pm Reading at Rockwell in the Galleries
Cash bar is available. Space is limited, please reserve your tickets.
In partnership with The Mount, the Norman Rockwell Museum presents Readings at Rockwell, featuring local actors reading stories by writers highlighted in Anita Kunz’s exhibition Original Sisters, which honors trailblazing women.
This program will highlight a reading of Edith Wharton’s “The Rembrandt” read by Anne Undeland in the exhibition gallery.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an author, designer and journalist. Born into the rigid upper class of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton defied societal norms by pursuing a literary career at a time when women of her background were expected only to marry well and raise a family. Wharton’s sharply observed stories, such as her best-known work, The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, explored the complexities of upper-class life and the hypocrisy and moral decay of the elite social circles she knew so well. While Wharton’s literary prose dealt with the limitations and constraints of women of privilege, her shrewdest observations were reserved for those women who fell out of favor from the society to which they once belonged. These shattering tales of social realism led Wharton to great acclaim as one of America’s most consequential writers of the 20th century
Anne Undeland is a theater artist who has worked throughout the Northeast. In addition to acting, Anne has developed living history programs, run oral history projects, narrated audiobooks, puppeteered, and played roles in productions for BBC radio and WBUR/Boston. Lately she’s branched out into playwriting; her most recent play, Wharton Between the Sheets, was produced by Great Barrington Public Theater, Boston’s Gloucester Stage, and is slated for production by the Middlebury Acting Company in May. www.anneundeland.com
ABOUT THIS SERIES
In partnership with The Mount, Readings at Rockwell will take place on the first Wednesday of each month, March to May, in the galleries of the Museum. Each program will begin with a short talk about the author and the featured story. The program will begin at 6:00 pm, doors will open at 5:00 pm for viewing of the Anita Kunz exhibition.
ABOUT THE MOUNT
The Mount is a National Historic Landmark and cultural center that celebrates the intellectual and artistic legacy of Edith Wharton. Located in Lenox, MA, the property offers a wide range of cultural programming, including lectures, exhibitions, and outdoor events. The Mount’s gardens and grounds are open to the public year-round, free of charge. For more information, visit www.EdithWharton.org.
ABOUT Original Sisters
Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women. To create the series, award-winning illustrator Anita Kunz carefully researched, wrote about, and portrayed each subject, sometimes compiling scant available information to establish a more complete picture. Her portraits present famed and lesser-known women in the fields of art, science, technology and invention, education, history, and politics, offering a needed expansion and revision of the historical record. For more information, visit www.nrm.org/2024/09/anitakunz/
AUTHORS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS SERIES