Book Signing: The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson

Name: Book Signing: The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson
Start: 2024-12-05T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-12-05T14:00:00-06:00
Location: 2120B Front Street, Meridian, MS, United States, Mississippi 39301

Schedule

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

2120B Front Street, Meridian, MS, United States, Mississippi 39301 | Meridian, MS

Join John G. Anderson and Anthony Thaxton at Crooked Letter as they sign their latest book, The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson. Books will be available for purchase.
Before The Horn Island Logs of Walter Anderson, the Islander came ashore. An explorer as well as an artist, Walter Anderson consistently kept logs and created artwork on his journeys. Whether he was walking through China toward Tibet, sailing a small boat out to camp on a wilderness island, or bicycling two thousand miles, his travels are fascinating and paint an image of a unique life. The Bicycle Logs of Walter Anderson gives an extraordinary opportunity to look through the eyes of an artist as he is becoming an artist. Through this extensive collection of mostly never-before-seen art and writings, we can travel along with him on his adventures and share in his intense love of life. Walter's son, John G. Anderson, sets the Logs in context with historical events to show what was happening in his life when each one was being written. Because these logs span his whole life, they provide a complete timeline and give readers an opportunity to understand him better by reading his own words and looking through his eyes. By revealing why he lived, this book opens the door to exciting new questions about him and about his world.
AUTHOR: JOHN G. ANDERSON
JOHN G. ANDERSON, the youngest child of Sissy and Walter Anderson, grew up in the artistic retreat at Shearwater Pottery. After college, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. Following this he worked as a teacher, a national park ranger, and a marine biologist/ecologist before returning to graduate school to study neuroscience and become a psychologist. In the past several years he has been the curator or co-curator for twelve exhibits of his father's art. He has written about him extensively, and participated in the production of several films on his father including Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander which is available to stream on PBS Passport.
CURATION, DESIGN, AND INTRODUCTION BY: ANTHONY THAXTON
ANTHONY THAXTON has won awards as a television director, painter, educator, photographer, writer, musician, and filmmaker. He is a founding partner of the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College (where he was named the 2019 Distinguished Art Alumnus of the Year). He lovingly writes, produces, directs, and edits programming about the south. Anthony won a Southeast EMMY Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary (Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of The Islander) and was nominated for Best Editor and Best Director. He is currently at work finishing a major film and companion book on the life of celebrated writer Eudora Welty. The Walter Anderson film aired nationwide on PBS stations and the companion book was a bestseller and is in its second printing.