LiterARTure
is a Searching For Identity program

CULTURAL ARTS SERIES
presented by
Cindy Edelman and Stacey Goldring

We look forward to seeing you for our final program of the 2024 Season, Oh, So Vain!

All Proceeds Benefit Searching For Identity

We thank our generous LiterARTure underwriters Julia and John Taylor. 

LiterARTure is an entertaining 90-minute art and literature program

  • Explore how the visual arts and literature reflect our community, culture and humankind

  • Enjoy learning how books and artwork present endless opportunities to connect with one another

  • Discover how artists and authors present endless opportunities to better understand ourselves, society and one another

  • Turn a careful eye and critical lens to the timely topic of The Seven Deadly Sins in art and literaturel Proceeds Benefit Searching For Identity

LiterARTure 2024 Series

Upcoming:

May 15 Oh, So Vain

Wrapping our 2024 Season on May 15, we find ourselves engulfed by vanity with the William Makepeace Thackery novel, Vanity Fair and contemporary female photographers, including Mickalene Thomas and Marilyn Minter, whose work echoes those themes found in the novel.

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Past Programs

Jan. 24
Greed is Not Good Sold Out

We kick off the season with a modern day tale of greed, featuring Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and artist, Nan Goldin who helped bring down the infamous Sacklers family, responsible for Oxycontin.

Feb. 21
Lordy, Lordy Lustful Sold Out

We will pull back the curtain on Emma Bovary, tragic heroine of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, and compare her travails with British artist, Tracy Emin, whose long career examines her sexuality and emotions.

April 24
Dutch Perspectives, Holocaust Remembrance Sold Out

For our annual Holocaust Remembrance program, we turn toward The Netherlands with a review of Steve McQueen’s film Occupied City and Nina Siegal’s book, The Diary Keepers.

Seven Deadly Sins | Lordy, Lordy Lustful

PROGRAM DETAILS

Registration
Your registration is non-refundable. If plans change, you can gift your reservation to a friend. Simply email info@searchingforidentity.org and provide us with your friend’s name and contact info.

Where
The Community Foundation for NE Florida Building | 245 Riverside Ave., Riverfront Room

Parking
Free, next door at the Winston Family YMCA

Format
Bring your lunch or order in advance at Little Joe’s Cafe located directly across from meeting room

Time
Noon-1:30 PM EST

Get the Books
Our LiterARTure 2024 Book Bundle is available at San Marco Books and More. A portion of every purchase benefits Searching For Identity

Become a LiterARTure Underwriter | Call 904.775.1769 to find out more.

Our History

LiterARTure was born in 2016, when we were sitting outside the San Marco Starbucks in Jacksonville, Florida, bemoaning the lack of civil discourse in our world. 

Not the type to bemoan too, too much, we came up with an idea. “What if we married books and art, showing what we, as Americans, have in common?” Since then, using that template, we’ve presented numerous examples based on different themes in our annual LiterARTure series. 

LiterARTure is always packed with information and peppered with a healthy dose of wit! We’re delighted to open the 2024 series with The Seven Deadly Sins. 

Stacey Goldring and Cindy Edelman

  • Cindy and Stacey consistently provide discussions that are not only entertaining but expand my knowledge of literature and art. I appreciate the amount of time that they devote to creating their lectures.

  • This has been SO wonderful - what a fantastic lecture! Thank you both!!!

  • Thank you both so much. Very interesting! Always learn for you all! This series and the lecturers have been engaging. I appreciate the popular culture connections and other text-to-text connections.

  • References to basketball AND aphrodisiacs! You’ve outdone yourself!

  • Thank you both for the enlightening lesson. I was alternately gob smacked with your knowledge and amused by your humorous comments. I will never again look at Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black" in the same way.

  • Always love to hear Stacey and Cindy's lectures. Especially like that I can watch it on YouTube at a time that is more convenient to me. I hope that continues to be the case even when we can meet in person again.

  • Very unique, creative and inspiring lecture. Great speakers.

  • Both speakers were excellent - very knowledgeable and entertaining! I'll plan to attend future programs.

  • Always love them! Keep them coming...

  • The quality of this presentation was excellent! The lecturers were both interesting and connected well with the audience. It's one of the best executed museum online talks I've seen.

  • You have inspired me to seek the book out and read it!

  • These ladies are fabulous.

  • WONDERFUL THANK YOU. I would attend a 2-hour lecture!