ATTLEBORO – The Attleboro Arts Museum’s Art Lovers Book Club presents “In Sunlight or in Shade: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper” on Saturday, September 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the museum.
Guest speaker Juliana Roth will give a live presentation via Zoom and take questions from the audience. Roth is the former chief narrator of the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center. She will discuss select images from the book and focus on Hopper’s wife, Jo Nivision Hopper, and her influence on the artist’s career.
In Sunlight or In Shadow is an anthology of 17 stories by Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Lee Child and Robert Olen Butler, to name a few. Readers are presented with a Hopper painting and the author’s interpretation of that artwork.
There is an eighteenth painting in the book, “Cape Cod Morning,” that does not have an accompanying story. The unaccompanied painting provides book club participants with an opportunity to try their hand at creating a story inspired by this Hopper painting in advance of the September 21 meeting. Authors are asked to present their content during the book club.
The event is free and open to all, but space is limited. Reservations are required by September 20: 508-222-2644 x10 or [email protected].
The meeting is sponsored by ATT-Texins.
