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Triple Crown
Publisher to Visit
Main Library
Currier and Ives, American Express Train, lithographic print.
Library’s Original American Prints
Focus of Main Library Exhibit
This spring from May 10 to August 20, discover the richness and variety of the Library’s
original American prints collection in the Joseph S. Stern, Jr. Cincinnati Room at the Main
Library. With views of 19th-century Cincinnati, fine examples of the American Etching
Revival movement, Currier & Ives lithographs, and full-color commercial prints, these
images depict the search for and birth of an American style. The exhibit, Inventing an
American Style: Prints from the Library’s Collection 1880-1910, is timed to coincide with the
annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, which will be held in
Cincinnati this year (May 15 - May 18). Founded in 1975, the society supports the collection,
research, and exhibition of historical American prints that are 100 or more years old.
Taft Museum of Art Displays
Students’ Artwork at Library
The Taft Museum
of Art’s annual
Artists Reaching
Classrooms (ARC)
exhibition will be
on view April 24
to May 16 in the
atrium of the Main
Library. Students
from 12 area high
schools will exhibit a
variety of artwork, including painting, photography, digital design, and ceramics. Each work
is accompanied by an artist’s statement, providing an explanation of the student’s process
and intent. ARC is a program offered by the Taft Museum of Art that immerses high school
art students in Cincinnati’s visual arts community and exposes them to art careers and
professionals. An awards ceremony in May will be held at the Main Library.
Visit with Triple Crown publisher Vickie Stringer on
April 28.
Vickie Stringer, creator, CEO and author for
Triple Crown Publications, will visit the Main
Library Sunday, April 28, at 2:00 p.m. in
the Reading Garden Lounge to talk about
her life and career. A book signing will follow
the author’s talk and books will be for sale
courtesy of Triple Crown.
Beginning with her self-published first novel
to the founding of her African-American book
publishing company, Stringer has garnered
attention from news media for over a decade.
She helped pioneer the urban Hip-Hop
literature genre when she wrote Let That Be
the Reason, a fictionalized account of her life that
she wrote while serving time in federal prison.
Let That Be the Reason and its follow-up,
Imagine This, were both on the Essence
paperback bestseller list. In addition to
Vickie being featured in The New York Times,
Newsweek, MTV News, Publisher’s Weekly,
The Boston Globe, Vibe, Essence, Entrepreneur
and Inc. Magazine, Triple Crown Publications
books have also been translated and released
in Japan.
Today Vickie runs her successful publishing
business, which features titles from more
than 25 authors, and gives motivational
speeches and seminars. She recently
was named by Book Magazine as one of
publishing’s 50 most influential women.
For more information about her visit to the
Main Library, call (513) 665-3336.
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