$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 Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” read by Sandra Seoane-Serí in the exhibition gallery.
Toni Morrison(1931–2019) was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and professor. Celebrated for her powerful and richly expressive examinations of the experience of Black women in an unjust world, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved (1987). In 1993 she became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, as an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” President Barack Obama awarded Morrison the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. In a prolific and varied writing career, Morrison only wrote one short story, “Recitatif,” which will be read at this program.
Sandra Seoane-Serí is an award-winning actress based in New York, Providence, and Boston. Sandra received her BA in Theater and Film at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a proud alum of Shakespeare & Company’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive. During their time in Western Massachusetts, she learned the importance of collaboration, discipline, and humility. They enjoy being on stage, behind and in front of the camera. Sandra hopes to be a part of stories that challenge stereotypes and spark conversations over neglected subjects.
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