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 at the Northville Art House for an art-inspired book club. 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 possibly 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, across the street from the Library, from 6:30 - 7:30 pm. The next month’s book will be available for checkout by the date of each meeting. You must have a valid library card to check out a book.

Northville Art House Exhibition: September 3 – 28: Off-Center: Art That Pushes Boundaries (formerly West of Center).

Off-Center will present 2D and 3D works of art in a variety of media. Artists are encouraged to push the boundaries of art imagery, presenting works that inspire thought, provoke emotion, and induce awe. From the bizarre and emotive to the fantastic and inspirational, this juried exhibition from artists around the country strives to surprise and thrill visitors. 

September's book selection: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by F. G. Haghenbeck

One of Mexico’s most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo’s fascinating life and loves.

When several notebooks were recently discovered among Frida Kahlo’s belongings at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, acclaimed Mexican novelist F. G. Haghenbeck was inspired to write this beautifully wrought fictional account of her life. Haghenbeck imagines that, after Frida nearly died when a streetcar’s iron handrail pierced her abdomen during a traffic accident, she received one of the notebooks as a gift from her lover Tina Modotti. Frida called the notebook “The Hierba Santa Book” (The Sacred Herbs Book) and filled it with memories, ideas, and recipes.

Haghenbeck takes readers on a magical ride through Frida’s passionate life: her long and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, the development of her art, her complex personality, her hunger for experience, and her ardent feminism. This stunning narrative also details her remarkable relationships with Georgia O’Keeffe, Leon Trotsky, Nelson Rockefeller, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, and Salvador Dalí. Combining rich, luscious prose with recipes from “The Hierba Santa Book,” Haghenbeck tells the extraordinary story of a woman whose life was as stunning a creation as her art.