2023 Big Read

An Exhibition of Artwork in Response to Circe by Contemporary Artists

CIRCE: A GODDESS FOR OUR TIME

November 7 - April 15, 2024

CIRCE: A GODDESS FOR OUR TIME is inspired by the legendary Greek Goddess Circe, a powerful and complex figure considered both a sorceress and, also, as the first suffragette. From her story, we learn that it is possible to rewrite the centuries of mythology that have promoted and defended gender hierarchies. In a similar fashion, the artists in this exhibition challenge this same mythology with a celebration of female power. This exhibition joins Circe, Miller, and the artists to a long line of feminist activists who have deployed the magic of words and imagery to communicate and inspire. Like Circe, they are also sorcerers whose art casts a spell on us: healers of our confused bodies and minds; guides on our journey toward the light. 

  • Then I learned I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow.

    (Circe, Pg.84)

  • I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.

    (Circe, Pg.84)