Noir: Writing Inspired by Odilon Redon

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  • Special Event
Friday, October 29, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Location:  Lecture Hall
John C. and Sally S. Morley Family Foundation Lecture Hall
Morley Family Lecture Hall

Quasimodo (detail), c. 1875–80. Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916). Charcoal with black chalk and touches of white and gray gouache on gray wove paper; 36.8 x 32.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 2020.63

About The Event

Celebrate Halloween by spending an eerie evening at the CMA with Literary Cleveland

Enjoy readings of dark, fantastic, suspenseful, or just plain spooky writing inspired by the visionary art of Odilon Redon, whose strangely imaginative prints and drawings are on view in the exhibition Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon.  

Participants

Andrea Imdacha 

Kurt Fawver

Aparna Paul

DM Pulley

Marissa Poorman

Angela Gartner

Theresa Göttl Brightman

Jill Riga

Meredith Holmes

Pamela Dengler

All exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Exhibitions. Generous annual support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Chapman Jr., the Jeffery Wallace Ellis Trust in memory of Lloyd H. Ellis Jr., Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, William S. and Margaret F. Lipscomb, Tim O’Brien and Breck Platner, Anne H. Weil, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.