Our monthly book club is for a free event for ART-FULL MEMBERS ONLY. Each month, we pick a different book related to the arts and discuss via zoom.
You must sign up as a member here in order to get the call-in details and attend. Members can register for the book club discussion here.
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Because this book is so long, I'm separating into two discussions, so we'll discuss parts 1 & 2 on Tuesday April 27th.
About Ninth Street Women:
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come.
Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.
Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.
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More about the Art-full Membership
The Art-full Membership is designed to help you add even more art & community to your life by more deeply engaging with the Women of Culture programming. It is a great option if you are interested in expanding your social network, broadening your knowledge and understanding of the arts and staying inspired, connected and empowered now and into the future.
The Full Art-full Membership includes:
- 1 members-only small group in-person outing per month, usually a themed dinner at one of NYC’s best restaurants
- 1 members-only art-based book club meeting & discussion session/month
- Priority/early access to and 10% off all art-full walks and other in-person events (offered at least 1x/month)
- Priority/early access to and 5% off all Weekend of Culture trips (held quarterly, if circumstances allow)
- Priority/early access to and 10% off all Sisterhood of Discovery women’s circles (held 4x/year)
- Access to private, members-only Facebook group, with weekly art-based discussion prompts
All for: $29/month OR $313 for the year (10% savings)
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Online-Only Art-full Membership Levels Include:
- 1 members-only art-based book club meeting & discussion session/month
- FREE access to all virtual connections sessions & online programming (offered at least 1x/month)
- Access to private, members-only Facebook group, with weekly art-based discussion prompts
All for: $15/month OR $160 for the year (10% savings)
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