Author Talk: The Cause of Art
Date: Jun 19
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Jeff Webb’s new book shares the story of the curators and artists who built a new art gallery at Memorial University in the 1960s – a gallery that would eventually become a provincial institution and advance access to art in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The gallery was more than a place to hang pictures. It was the site of an awakening of visual culture as part of the Newfoundland Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s. Webb explores the conflict, collaborations and a cast of passionate and strong-willed characters who were part of the early gallery history including Christopher Pratt, Peter Bell, Edythe Goodridge, John Perlin, and many others.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms Members. Get your tickets online or by calling (709) 757-8090.
Events & Programs
How do place, identity, and art intersect, and what do their points of intersection tell us about this place we call home?
In this talk, Rhea Rollmann will explore the significance of queer and trans art in Atlantic Canada with particular emphasis on the work of Erica Rutherford as well as iterations of queer and trans art in NL. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.
About the Presenter:
Rhea Rollmann (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John's, NL, and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She is a founding editor of The Independent NL and her journalism has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC, Xtra Magazine, Chatelaine, PopMatters, Riddle Fence, Macleans and more. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of Work and Society, Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Screen Bodies and elsewhere. She also has an extensive background in labour organizing and queer/trans activism, and she is Station Manager at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John's.