A Partnership between the Northville Art House and Northville District Library.

Do you love to read? Would you like to learn more about famous artists and art historical movements? Join the Northville Art House and the Northville District Library for an art-inspired book club beginning in January 2024. Meeting bi-monthly, this book club will focus on fiction inspired by art history’s most famous (and infamous) figures. Participants will see the story come to life through presentations and art-making activities inspired by each month’s selection.

The “From Page to Palette Book Club” will meet on the 4th Wednesday of January, March, May, July, September, and November. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings will take place at the Northville Art House from 6:30-7:30 pm. The next month’s book will be available for check out at each meeting. You must have a valid library card in order to check out a book.

January 24, 2024

Exhibition: Birmingham Society of Women Painters

Book: I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira

The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her sister Lydia is falling mysteriously ill, and worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then one evening a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever. Years later she will learn that he had begged for the introduction, but in that moment their meeting seems a miracle. So begins the defining period of her life and the most tempestuous of relationships. In I Always Loved You, Robin Oliveira brilliantly re-creates the irresistible world of Belle Époque Paris, writing with grace and uncommon insight into the passion and foibles of the human heart.