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Book Club
Monthly meetings on the first Wednesdays of each month 9:30 - 10:30 AM PST at the Triton Museum of Art. (doors open at 9:00 a.m. for coffee and donuts; presentation begins at 9:30 a.m.)
We invite you to read selected novels about art or famous artists before we meet, and then join us on the first Wednesday morning of each month, for an art history presentation about that month’s novel, the portrayed artist, and related art, as presented by Triton Museum Executive Director Preston Metcalf and Triton Museum Associate Curator Vanessa Callanta. Learn how the novel does — or doesn’t — comport to the actual history of its subject, and hear more about the artwork and the artists’ times in which they were created.
Admission to the monthly book club art history lectures is free for Triton Museum of Art Members ($5 donation requested for non-members), and all are welcome, whether you have actually read the book or not. Coffee and pastries will be served.
Discussions are held safely distanced & in person at the Triton Museum of Art Free for TMA members, $5 suggested donation for non-members
Take a look at what we'll be reading for 2025!
OPENING SOON
This Upcoming Month's Book:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
March 5th, 2025
As one of the leading Surrealists, Salvador Dali explored the images and machinations of his mind, giving us a wealth of fantastical masterworks. Not content to view always inward, he also mined inspiration from great writers, particularly works that were themselves literary dreamscapes.
In this lecture Triton Curator and Dali scholar, Vanessa Callanta will explore Dali’s art inspired by works such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and his collaboration with Walt Disney, the animated film, Destino, based on the written lyrics of Armando Dominguez.
Each of these literary sources cast their protagonists in dreamlike — some might say Surrealist — settings. Join us on a journey through the surreal worlds of Dali, Carroll, and more.
