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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:
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
July 2nd, 2025
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has delighted audiences for over 400 years, humoring us with the impish Puck, the regal gods Tatiana and Oberon, and the buffoonish Rude Mechanicals, but as with all of Shakespeare’s plays, the metaphors of the poetry belie the surface readings of the four intertwined tales.
In this lecture, Executive Director Preston Metcalf will show the folk art traditions underlying the words,
and how they would be elevated from images of local traditions to art of Royal justification.