WNBA-NOLA members toured the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University on Saturday, February 1. Many thanks to Lisa Moore, Reference Archivist who explained the history of Amistad and the collection focusing on select examples of women’s literary works. Check out www.amistadresearchcenter.org.
We pledged our Reading and Writing Resolutions for 2020! Thank you Pam Ebel for hosting!!
WNBA members and friends attended a screening of Little Women just days after its opening in late December. Afterwards the group engaged in a lively discussion led by member Anne Boyd Rioux—University of New Orleans professor, scholar, and author of, among other books, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. The discussion touched on the film’s ambiguous ending, feminism, casting, costuming, chronology, and more! We are so grateful to Anne Boyd Rioux. Please check out her book if you haven’t already. We had such a great time that we hope to host another movie event, perhaps for the upcoming Emma. Stay tuned!
With writers Jami Attenberg and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans
Megan Abbott and Sarah St. Vincent, this year’s recipients of the 2019 Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, were honored at a special event on October 10 at the Louisiana Humanities Center in New Orleans. The Pinckley Prizes partner with the Women’s National Book Association of New Orleans, of which Diana Pinckley was a founding member. The judges this year were novelist J.M. Redmann, author of the Mickey Knight and Nell McGraw series; Constance Adler, author of My Bayou, New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover; and music and culture journalist Alison Fensterstock, editor/co-author of The Definition of Bounce.
Members and non-members enjoyed networking and fun at Culture Collision August 28 at the Ogden Museum of Art.
Members and friends enjoyed a really interesting tour of Antenna’s Paper Machine on Saturday, June 1 in New Orleans Lower 9th Ward. We toured the facility, viewed amazing book creations in its Artist Book Collection, and learned about the center’s community efforts and student outreach. We gazed in awe at the overhead kinetic sculptural print machine! Finally, we got a hands-on lesson in creating and printing our own cards, including choosing the message, paper, colors and type face. See below photos of members setting the type and taking turns on the printing press! Check out the message on our custom-printed cards! Many thanks to Paper Machine artists Jessica Peterson and Yuka Petz.
Paper Machine is a 5000 sq ft print shop in the Lower 9th Ward housing a range of traditional and cutting edge print technologies, to enhance, amplify, and explore New Orleans’s rich printing heritage while providing significant opportunities for artists and residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and beyond. https://www.papermachine.works/
