Gardiner Museum

LUNCH + LEARN: MOLLY PEACOCK

Thursday May 31, 2012, 12 - 1:30 pm

PRESENTED BY THE LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GARDINER MUSEUM

Join us for an intimate Lunch + Learn session with Molly Peacock, author of the best-selling The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72. In 1772, upon her second husband’s death, Mary Delany arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors and, at the age of seventy-two, invented a new art form, mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany created an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum. Peacock, a noted poet and memoirist, will share these floral images, connecting them to objects within the Gardiner collection, and discuss how the witty, talented, profound Delany took her craft into art.

PRICING
$25 (includes a bag lunch by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens)