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    Smart Reads: Love is the Way

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Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads!

In our April Smart Reads selection, Love is the Way, Bishop Michael Curry offers an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. We invite you to read along with us and engage in two thought-provoking conversations with host Dorian H. Nash.

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FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. If needed, the Smart Museum can pick up the cost of the book for participants in this reading group. Instructions will be provided with your registration confirmation. 

Smart Reads is presented by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with Seminary Co-op Bookstores.


About Smart Reads

The Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads, aims to foster care within our community during an unprecedented time of collective social anxiety and separation. Over the next year, we invite you to delve into books surrounding love, art, culture, politics, relationships, and more. Each book selection features a series of small group conversations hosted by Dorian H. Nash.


Schedule

Please register to receive the Zoom links for each session.

Part I
Thursday, April 15, 6 pm

Part II
Thursday, April 22, 6 pm

Smart Reads will return in June 2021 with a new book selection—stay tuned!


Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

by Bishop Michael Curry and Sara Grace

As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further.

The way of love is essential for addressing the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing the world today: poverty, racism, selfishness, deep ideological divisions, competing claims to speak for God. This book will lead readers to discover the gifts they need in order to live the way of love: deep reservoirs of hope and resilience, simple wisdom, the discipline of nonviolence, and unshakable regard for human dignity.

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If needed, the Smart Museum can pick up the cost of the book for participants in this reading group. Instructions will be provided with your registration confirmation. 

 
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On-site public programs have been suspended until further notice. Unless noted, the programs listed below will take place online. Advanced registration may be required. 

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    Smart Reads: Love is the Way

    Thu. April 15 • 6:00 PM

    Join our virtual book club for a two-part reading and discussion of Bishop Michael Curry’s Love is the Way.

  • In a detail of a Renaissance painting, the figure of Daphne flees her pursuer Apollo, looking back over her shoulder. Her arms are raised above her head, in the process of transforming into the branches of a laurel tree.
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    Ovid over Lunch (Part I)

    Thu. April 22 • 12:00 PM

    Take a poetic trek through ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses with a lunchtime reading and discussion, co-presented with the Poetry Foundation.

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    Amplify Teacher Workshop: Virtual Resources

    Thu. April 22 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

    Teaching virtual or hybrid? Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Oriental Institute for a preview of the resources offered to K-12 students and teachers for virtual learning.

  • Lorna Simpson's photo tryptic Three Seated Figures installed on a gray gallery wall
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    Health Humanities in Times of Crisis

    Fri. April 23 • 10:45 AM - 5:00 PM

    The first Health Humanities Symposium at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art explores the relationship between health, healing, and crisis.

  • Sitting cross-legged on the floor in the museum, Jo McEntee reads from a homemade book surrounded by elementary school students.
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    Take Care with Art After Dark: A Book for All Ages

    Wed. April 28 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

    Join in from home for an evening of art exploration and creative bookmaking, led by Lead Museum Educator Jo McEntee.

  • In a detail of a Renaissance painting, the figure of Daphne flees her pursuer Apollo, looking back over her shoulder. Her arms are raised above her head, in the process of transforming into the branches of a laurel tree.
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    • Adults

    Ovid over Lunch (Part II)

    Thu. April 29 • 12:00 PM

    Join in a drawing workshop and take a poetic trek through ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

  • Luca Cambiaso, Venus and Cupid, c. 1570, Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection, 1942.290.
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    Gender and Sexuality in Early-Modern European Art

    Thu. May 6 • 4:00 PM

    Jill Burke (University of Michigan) and Patricia Simons (University of Edinburgh) discuss the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art.

  • Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen, Venus at the Forge of Vulcan (detail), 1617
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    The Apocalyptic Renaissance

    Thu. May 13 • 5:30 PM

    Renaissance historian Ada Palmer (The University of Chicago) explores the relationship between war, strife, and artistic production.

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