CANCELED: Art of Reading Tour: The Warmth of Other Suns
PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. Please check our page dedicated to updates on COVID-19.
Isabel Wilkerson’s 2011 book, The Warmth of Other Suns, follows three individuals, representative of the six million Black Southerners who participated in the Great Migration to northern or western destinations. These millions of people left harsh, dangerous, and potentially fatal conditions in the south with the hope of a better life. The Wall Street Journal’s review of the work states, “Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath…” After a discussion of the book, take a docent-led tour of selected works that enhance this work.
April 15, 2020
Mint Museum Uptown | 6:00–7:30 PM
Free for Mint Members
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Mint Museum Uptown
The Art of Reading Tour: The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson’s 2011 book, The Warmth of Other Suns, follows three individuals, representative of the six million Black Southerners who participated in the Great Migration to northern or western destinations. These millions of people left harsh, dangerous, and potentially fatal conditions in the south with the hope of a better life. The Wall Street Journal’s review of the work states, “Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath…” After a discussion of the book, take a docent-led tour of selected works that enhance this work.
March 1, 2020
Mint Museum Uptown | 2–3:30 PM
Free for Mint Members
This event is located at Mint Museum Uptown
Art of Reading Tour: The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson’s 2011 book, The Warmth of Other Suns, follows three individuals, representative of the six million Black Southerners who participated in the Great Migration to northern or western destinations. These millions of people left harsh, dangerous, and potentially fatal conditions in the south with the hope of a better life. The Wall Street Journal’s review of the work states, “Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath…” After a discussion of the book, take a docent-led tour of selected works that enhance this work.
January 19, 2020
Mint Museum Uptown | 2–3:30 PM
Free event after paid admission to the museum
This event is located at Mint Museum Uptown
The Warmth of Other Suns: A Migration through the Galleries
Please Note: Isabel Wilkerson will not be onsite during the event.
Join five Mint docents and five local poets as they migrate through the uptown galleries, responding to works of art related to The Great Migration from the South referenced in The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
Friday, October 11
Mint Museum Uptown | 6:30 – 8 PM
Free for Mint Members
This event is located at Mint Museum Uptown
Art of Reading Public Tour: The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson’s 2011 book, The Warmth of Other Suns, follows three individuals, representative of the six million Black Southerners who participated in the Great Migration to northern or western destinations during the period 1915-1970.
