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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:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
April 2nd, 2025
We all know the story of young star-crossed lovers, destined for a tragic end, but what about the meaning behind Shakespeare’s words and his commentary on the religious rift tearing his country apart?
Celebrated as the pinnacle of tragic love stories, it is, in reality,
one of the most controversial social and political commentaries of its time.
Please join Executive Director Preston Metcalf as we look at the deeper meanings of Shakespeare’s doomed lovers, and how artists of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation would thereafter grapple with the religious divisions throughout Europe.