Past Programs 2012

Author

ELLIS AVERY

named "The Best Writer You've Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now" by New York Press, stops by with her second novel, The Last Nude, inspired by the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.

Author

NICHOLAS DE MONCHAUX

brings us Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, an architectural history of the Apollo AL7 Pressure Garment, manufactured by the industrial division of the Playtex Bra and Girdle company. Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker calls it "The most delightful and memorable new book I read last year."

Clarity Films

CONNIE FIELD & GREGORY SCHARPEN

Director and Editor of the new PBS series Have You Heard From Johannesburg, five stories from the global anti-apartheid movement.

Environmentalist

LISA GAUTIER

President of Matter of Trust, eco-enthusiasts spearheading many innovative projects, such as the "hair booms" used to clean up oil spills.

The Cosmic

MIKE GREENSILL

on piano.