In Dialogue: In these engaging conversations, Executive Director Kristen A. Shepherd talks with artists, activists, researchers, and visionaries to discuss the intersection of art and current events.

Award-winning graphic artist Bonnie Siegler and Executive Director Kristen A. Shepherd, will discuss the power of imagery and the role it plays in social history. Bonnie will share the research she completed to create her new book, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America.

Bonnie Siegler, voted one of the fifty most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA, founded and runs the award-winning design studio Eight and a Half. She is best known for her design work for Saturday Night Live, the Criterion Collection, HBO, Late Night with Seth Meyers, StoryCorps, Participant Media, and Newsweek. Most recently, she was the creative director of the Trump parody autobiography You Can’t Spell America Without Me by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen and created the main title sequence for Will & Grace. She has taught at the graduate level for many years at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University, conducted workshops at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Rhode Island School of Design and judged design competitions all over the country. She is married to experimental filmmaker Jeff Scher, and they have two wonderful children.

FREE with General Admission

Book signing to follow in the Membership Garden

Complimentary valet parking on Beach Drive

Image: Permission of Darla Jones

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