The Hermitage - Russia's Artistic Treasures

Dr. Alice Boone, Woman's Board Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago, will talk about the collections in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The museum was founded in 1764 by Empress Catherine the Great.

Dr. Boone earned her B.A. in English Literature from Barnard College, followed by a Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she specialized in eighteenth-century British literature and media culture. She curated the Candide at 250: Scandal and Success exhibition at the New York Public Library. She has taught at Haverford College, the William Andrews Clark, Jr. Library at the University of California-Los Angeles, and the University of Delaware. The Woman's Board Fellowship offers her the opportunity to retrain in the field of museum education, after a career in academia.

This event is part of the Wilmette Public Library’s 2018 One Book, Everybody Reads series, which is featuring author Amor Towles’s bestselling novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, this spring.

One Book, Everybody Reads is generously funded by the Friends of the Wilmette Public Library.  Community partners for the 2018 One Book program include The Book Stall, League of Women Voters of Wilmette, Make It Better, NS/Modern Luxury, Rotary Club of Wilmette, Rotary Club of Wilmette Harbor, Village of Kenilworth, Village of Wilmette, Wilmette Beacon, Wilmette-Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce, and Wilmette Schools District 39.

For more information about this year’s One Book, Everybody Reads program, visit www.wilmettelibrary.info/onebook or call (847) 256-6930.