The Chicago Calligraphy Collective was founded in 1976 to promote the study, practice, and appreciation of calligraphy in all its historical and present-day applications.
Calendar
Monday, March 11, 2013 to Friday, June 7, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 to Saturday, July 6, 2013
In this exhibition you will see a small sample of rare and special books on religion, published from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries that the Newberry collected over the last two decades. In 1991, Newberry Trustee Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president Emerita of Mundelein College, arranged for the transfer of Mundelein’s rare book collection to the Newberry.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
4 – 5 pm
“This year’s Chicago Calligraphy Collective exhibit is particularly strong,” says Paul Gehl, the Newberry’s printing history and calligraphy curator. He will lead a gallery walk and explain, among other things, how he went about choosing the Newberry Purchase Prize. Please meet outside the Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery on the first floor.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
6 pm
Join novelist Sara Paretsky and journalist Rick Kogan as they talk about Chicago in Chicago literature.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Nancy Lee and Jonathan Kemper, Suzanne and Grant McCullagh, and David E. McNeel, 125th Anniversary Celebration Co-Chairs, invite you to join them to celebrate historian David McCullough.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
6 pm
When thinking about the relationship between Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, another musically talented brother and sister come to mind: Wolfgang and Nannerl Mozart. In the Mozart family, however, Wolfgang was clearly accepted as the superior musician. This was not the case, early on, in the Mendelssohn household.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
4 – 5 pm
The United States became a predominately green-tea consuming nation after 1800, and by the 1880s, Midwesterners preferred Japanese green teas. In the 1890s, India and Ceylon tea merchants began a campaign to convince Midwest consumers to switch to their black teas, part of a commercial battle that continued for several decades.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
6 pm
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created it.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Milton Seminar
12 pm
This talk will explore connections between Milton’s project in Paradise Lost and the efforts of seventeenth-century Baconians to erect a theodicy on the grounds of nature alone.
Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
6 pm
Join Lois Leveen, the Newberry’s 2013 Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellow, for a discussion of the research behind The Secrets of Mary Bowser, her novel based on the true story of a former slave who became a Union spy in the Confederate White House.