'It's very much a tree house,' he says with a laugh. Novelist Richard Powers lives in a house perched on a hillside, just on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. To best view this exhibition, hold your mouse on an image to see the small magnifier, then click to get the gallery.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Overstory Author Richard Powers For more information on making a copy, or reusing an image, please send your request to information on the work itself, please also send your request to We will put you in touch with the artist. Her work is represented in numerous collections including Carnegie Museum of Art, Bank of New York Mellon, Reed College, Municipal Museum of Art (Gyor, Hungary) and Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry.Ī select few of the scrolls she has completed, besides The Overstory, are: Romeo and Juliet, Moby-Dick or The Whale, Leaves of Grass, and The Odyssey.įind out more about Samuels and her work on her website.Īll rights of the images reside with the artist.

She holds honorary PhDs and has many awards and commissions. and world, and her permanent site-specific artworks include Luminous Manuscript at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, and Lines of Sight at Brown University. See a November interview with Samuels and The Harvard Gazette and Scroll Through The Overstory interview on the Arnold Arboretum’s website.Īn artist who has combined art and compassion, Samuels looks to the connections a writer finds with people, cultural issues, nature, and more, and makes those connections hers through a visual medium that complements and extols the author’s message. Her extraordinary facility with artistic media brings new attention to the words of well-known authors however, her own unique interpretation of those words-augmenting and combining them with aligned images, colors, textures, and design-uncovers a new art form, one initiated by the resonance Samuels finds within a book and her own life. Artist Diane Samuels will be on hand, virtually, to talk about her art.ĭiane Samuels has been creating scrolls for years based on books, plays, and poems. Join us on Saturday, January 28 for an in-person, participatory reading of selected sections from The Overstory novel.

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