2022 NEA Big Read

The Swope is happy to be participating in the 2022 NEA Big Read. Vigo County Public Library is partnering with the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest for the sixth consecutive year to bring the NEA Big Read to the Wabash Valley. The NEA Big Read is designed to broaden our world, our communities, and ourselves.

Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved will be available for free at the Swope while supplies last. In Beloved, Sethe, her daughter, and her community struggle to move on in the present while being burdened by the past. Through VCPL programming, readers will be challenged to see hope even when circumstances are bleak. Visit vigo.lib.in.us to see a calendar of events and learn more about the 2022 Big Read.

 

Find the artworks with a QR code in the label to see works relevant to Beloved

Works with the QR code include:

Etaples, France 1911

William Edouard Scott (Indianapolis, Indiana 1884 – Chicago, Illinois 1964)

Oil on canvas, 34 ½ x 41 inches

Museum purchase, 1999.41

Nubian Princess, 1995

Angie Bellinger (born 1961)

Photograph on paper, 20 ¼ x 16 ¼ inches

Gift of Dr. Barbara Weinbaum in memory of Beatrice S. Hyman, 1996.02

Together and Alone, 1980

John E. Dowell, Jr. (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1941)

Lithograph on paper, 29 ½ x 22 inches

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, 1991.094 – .119

Incidents, 1980

John E. Dowell, Jr. (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1941)

Lithograph on paper, 29 ½ x 22 inches

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, 1991.094 – .119

Poised and Extended Forms, 1965

Richard Hunt (Chicago, IL 1935)

Steel formed and welded, 6 ½ x 39 ½ x 20 inches

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Museum Purchase Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, 1973.54

White Wheel of WTH, circa 1968

John E. Dowell, Jr. (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1941)

Aquatint etching on paper, 24 x 30 inches

Museum purchase, 1968.008

Man, 2003

Elizabeth Catlett (Washington, D.C. 1915 – 2012 Cuernavaca, Mexico)

Printer’s inks on paper, 17 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches

Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in honor of Kathy and David Brentlinger, 2014.2

Basin Street Swing, 1959

Noel Rockmore (New York, New York 1928 – 1995 New Orleans, Lousiana)

Oil on canvas

Museum Purchase, 1962.11