SHELLYNE RODRIGUEZ is an artist, teacher, agitator, and community organizer from the Bronx. These multiple roles have converged and have been in conflict in myriad ways throughout the years and have sown lessons as well as unanswered questions. Join us for a candid discussion of Shellyne’s experiences as a community organizer and an artist.

Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, Tubyez Cropper, and Michael Morand will speak on seven of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3m0Ap8R

Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, and Tubyez Cropper will speak on some of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/36uRjpw

Anya Montiel, curator of American and Native American women’s art and craft, jointly at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian, will speak on the artists’ books of Rick Bartow. Bartow (1946 – 2016), an enrolled member of the Mad River Band of Wiyot Indians, is considered one of the most important leaders in contemporary Native American art.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3mXjvYL

On the eve of election day, the weekly gallery talk series will feature a special set of readings by Yale faculty, students, and staff of prose and poetry from the collections that speak from the past, in the present, to the future. Drawn from library collections, readings will include works by Langston Hughes, Rachel Carson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Penn Warren, and James Baldwin, and selections from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.