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Cleveland Public Library and Cleveland Public Art present Spectrum: The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues: Pen & Ink, The FREE and open to the public collaborative effort, will be held at Cleveland Public Library’s Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue, Thursday, December 13, 7:15 p.m. with a reception in the lobby prior to the conversation at 6:30 p.m. Spectrum’s 2007 Pen & Ink series explores how words and images together have played crucial roles in storytelling and visual communication. Today’s artists and writers continue to push publishing in new directions while challenging the perceptions of high and low art, often with irreverence and razor sharp commentary. This dialogue will feature author, Dave Eggers and Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic for The New York Times and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Dave Eggers is the author of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), the novel You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002), the story collection How We Are Hungry (2004), and the novel What is the What (2006). In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent book publishing house in San Francisco. McSweeney's produces the eponymous quarterly journal, a monthly magazine called The Believer, a daily humor website at www.mcsweeneys.net, and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films. Eggers' book and magazine design work has been featured in many periodicals and both the National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the California Design Biennial. In 2002, Eggers opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for youth in San Francisco, now with branches in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Michigan and Boston. He is editor of The Best American Non-Required Reading series, and co-founder of the Voice of Witness series of human rights oral histories. Moderator Michael Kimmelman, educated at Yale and Harvard, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and is the author several acclaimed books, most recently The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice-Versa, published in August 2006. He also wrote Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, which was named as a notable book of the year by the New York Times and The Washington Post. He has written and hosted various television shows about the arts and is also a pianist. In its third year, Spectrum has brought some of the country’s most influential and innovative thinkers in art and popular culture to talk about their work, ideas and theories. This original program engages the diverse Cleveland community in two public conversations per year and is supported by the Cleveland Public Library's Lockwood Thompson Fund. To learn more about this program visit www.clevelandpublicart.org., www.cpl.org, or call (216) 623-2869 or (216) 621-5330. |