Art historian Jeff Mishur returns to discuss works of several women artists associated with Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and 1950s, including Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Alma Thomas and Elaine de Kooning. Mishur will also address the relationship between American art and Abstract Expressionism after World War II and European modernism between the wars.

Join us for an evening with Carrie Hoza, a former U.S. Army captain deployed to the Sunni Triangle in Iraq from 2004-05. Throughout her deployment, Captain Hoza wrote emails home to family and friends in Winnetka in an effort to stay connected and upbeat. These emails were compiled into a book, “Love, Mother Goose: A U.S. Army Captain’s Stories of Surviving the Sunni Triangle.” Presented with the Glencoe Council for Inclusion and Community.

Join us in the Hammond Room for a screening of the 2024 drama film “The Outrun.” Saoirse Ronan plays a young woman who returns home after her London life spins out of control due to alcoholism.  Shot on location on the remote Orkney Islands, writer/director Nora Fingscheidt’s film is a powerful, vivid and ultimately uplifting story of a woman trying to restore peace and meaning to her life. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.