October 2024
WI Book Festival Author Event: Still: The Art of Noticing (Mary Jo Hoffman)
10/19/24 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Arts + Literature Laboratory Presented in partnership with Arts + Literature Laboratory, the Wisconsin Science Festival, and FlakPhoto Projects. Every day since January 1, 2012, Mary Jo Hoffman has made a photograph of found nature. That’s nearly 4,400 consecutive days—not a single day missed. Over more than a decade of STILL—the title Hoffman gave to the project—this daily ritual cracked open profound revelations about the importance of place, the passing of time, the connectedness of all things, and the…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Nature’s Writers: Mentored by the Land (Donald Clark)
10/19/24 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Arts + Literature Laboratory Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. Since 2019, Donald S. Clark has documented the places that have been instrumental in influencing the lives and words of both historic and contemporary nature and environmental writers throughout the United States. While we have always felt their passionate connection to their own environments, no book has ever made this visual connection between writers and their land before—the relationship between prose and place. Featuring…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Feed the Planet (George Steinmetz)
10/19/24 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Arts + Literature Laboratory Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. In Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food, acclaimed photographer George Steinmetz documents the global effort that puts food on our tables and transforms the surface of the Earth. Do you know where your food comes from? To find out, Steinmetz spent a decade documenting food production across thirty-six countries on six continents, twenty-seven US states, and five oceans. In striking…
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