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Season 6 of the AMA Art Lovers Book Club continues Jan 21, 2025, with Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert.
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The bimonthly club meets at 6 pm in the Willson Auditorium at the Albany Museum of Art.
The meetings are free and open to everyone. There is no formal membership, just a love for art, books, and good conversation.
Registration is free for everyone and helps us ensure adequate seating is ready when you arrive. You may also contact AMA Director of Education and Public Programming Annie Vanoteghem by calling 229.439.8400.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Chasing Me to My Grave is the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of Cuthbert artist Winfred Rembert (1945-2021) as told to Erin I Kelly.
Rembert’s paintings on tooled leather have been exhibited at museums and galleries across the United States. Honored by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2015 and awarded a U.S. Artists Barr Fellowship the following year, his life and work have been the subject of two award-winning documentaries–All Me and Ashes to Ashes.
Rembert, who moved to New Haven, Conn., grew up in a family of field laborers. During the Civil Rights Movement, he was arrested after fleeing a demonstration. Surviving a near lynching, he spent seven years in prison, where he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned while incarcerated.
THE 2024-25 READING LIST
AMA Art Lovers Book Club meetings are set for every two months on the third Tuesday so that club members have plenty of time to obtain and read the books before each session.
Here is the complete reading list for 2024-25. Books were selected through an online vote by book club participants:
- July 16: Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore.
- September 17: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath..
- November 19: The Life & Art of Athos Menaboni by Barbara C Taylor, Athos Menaboni.
- January 21: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert. (Register HERE.)
- March 18: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King. (Register HERE.)
- May 20: The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming. (Register HERE.)