Jennifer Dasal | The Club

ABOUT THE EVENT

Tickets include a copy of The Club, guaranteed entry to the event, and a seat in the reserved section. Jennifer will sign books after the program.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A deliciously entertaining, never-before-told history of a residence for American women artists in Paris from 1893 to 1914.

In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the town and gathering at a female-only residence known as the American Girls’ Club in Paris. Opened in 1893, the Club was the center of expatriate living and of dedication to a calling in the fine arts, and singularly harbored a generation of independent, talented, and driven American women.

Now in The Club, curator, art historian, and podcast host Jennifer Dasal presents the never-before-told story of the Club, the philanthropists who created it, and the artists it housed. These women forged connections in the arts and letters with luminaries like Auguste Rodin and Gertrude Stein or became activists through their relationships with the likes of Emmeline Pankhurst. But just as importantly, these women’s lives revealed the power of the Club itself, and the way that having a safe home for single women of ambition allowed them to grow as teachers, artists, suffragists, and people.

For readers interested in women’s lives as captured in books like The Barbizon, art history buffs who loved Ninth Street Women, and armchair travelers longing to visit Belle Époque Paris, The Club is a captivating, colorful new history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JENNIFER DASAL is the creator and host of the ArtCurious podcast, which has been featured in multiple publications, including O, the Oprah Magazine. She is also the author of ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History. She holds an MA in art history and a BA in art history. Dasal is the former curator of modern and contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. She lives in North Carolina with her family.

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