In case there are some Colette scholars and enthusiasts out there...
Provocative and prolific, the French writer Colette (1873-1954) was a novelist, journalist, and actress, a liberated woman in a changing France. In her lifetime, she published nearly eighty volumes of writing—short stories, novels, reviews, reportage, and dramas. Her work has been translated into forty languages and adapted for stage, film, and television.
This exhibition highlights the literary and artistic world of Colette’s Paris—an exceptionally creative cross-section of persons, personalities, and art forms. Discover period illustrated books, livre d'artiste, prints, and ephemera to peek inside a network of illustrators, writers, designers, and editors affiliated with Colette.
A small circulating library with additional materials is available for check-out on the first floor.
As a digital extension of this exhibition, the Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections Center at Ringling College of Art and Design launched
Colette in France, an interactive Google Earth mapping project. It provides a chronological view of the various addresses where Colette lived in Paris and beyond:
bit.ly/colette-map.
On the centennial of her 1920 novel
Chéri, the Mellon-funded
The Colette Project Sarasota is a celebration of Colette’s love of literature and music, cats and dogs, food and flowers. The programming spans across organizations in Sarasota and includes book club discussions, lectures, performances, film screenings, and more. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Please see The Colette Project Sarasota for full details:
bit.ly/colette-project-sarasota.
B-SSCC exhibit curated by Janelle Rebel with Élyane Dezon-Jones.
