Presents

CULTURAL ARTS SERIES
with
Cindy Edelman and Stacey Goldring

Join us this season for

Salut, Salons!

Jan. 22, Mar. 19, Apr. 16, May 14
10 am
Jacksonville University
Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts
Phillips Fine Arts Building
2800 University Boulevard, North
Jacksonville, FL 32211

We thank our generous LiterARTure underwriters

Julia and John Taylor

LiterARTure is an entertaining 90-minute art and literature program

  • Explore how the visual arts and literature reflect our community, culture and humankind

  • Enjoy learning how books and artwork present endless opportunities to connect with one another

  • Discover how artists and authors present endless opportunities to better understand ourselves and society

All Proceeds Benefit Searching For Identity

2025 Salut, Salons! Season Membership
Jan
22
to May 14

2025 Salut, Salons! Season Membership

  • Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts | Phillips Fine Arts Building | Jacksonville University (map)
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Register | 2025 Season Membership
Jan 22, Mar. 26, Apr. 16, May 14
10:00 AM EST
Season Ticket $135

Your Full Season Membership reserves your spot
for the complete 2025 LiterARTure Series. 

Series Includes:
1. Salon History, Before Group Chat
2. Stellar Salons, the Ultimate Invitation
3. Holocaust Remembrance, Traces
4. The Aqua Net that Binds Us

Doors will open at 10 am for you to enjoy a coffee with friends and then peruse the Alexander Brest Gallery. At 10:15 am toute suite, we shall dive into LiterARTure 2025.

You'll receive a reminder two weeks prior to each program. Your membership benefit also includes preferred seating at each program.   

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Salon History, Before Group Chat
Jan
22

Salon History, Before Group Chat

  • Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts | Phillips Fine Arts Building | Jacksonville University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ticket $40
Registration for individual programs will open soon!

Learn the fascinating origins and impact of salons. In Salon History, Before Group Chat we bring to light the purpose and function of salons, dating back centuries. Get to know the early salonnieres, whose influence on politics, the arts and culture are still with us today. 

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Stellar Salons, the Ultimate Invitation
Mar
26

Stellar Salons, the Ultimate Invitation

  • Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts | Phillips Fine Arts Building | Jacksonville University (map)
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Ticket $40
Registration for individual programs will open soon!

Take a Midnight in Paris peek into some of history’s famous salons. Meet fascinating artists and authors who were launched from these legendary salon settings. 

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Holocaust Remembrance, Traces, Voices of the Second Generation
Apr
16

Holocaust Remembrance, Traces, Voices of the Second Generation

  • Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts | Phillips Fine Arts Building | Jacksonville University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ticket $40
Registration for individual programs will open soon!

Each spring Cindy and Stacey commemorate an observance they hold close in their hearts. In Traces, survivor children share their families’ stories reveal the Holocaust’s generational impact. A panel discussion, will feature special Traces guests.

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Hair Salons, the Aqua Net that Binds Us
May
14

Hair Salons, the Aqua Net that Binds Us

  • Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts | Phillips Fine Arts Building | Jacksonville University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ticket $40
Registration for individual programs will open soon!

Hair salons and barber shops “do” make a difference. Cindy and
Stacey take a serious look at these culturally powerful intimate
settings.

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Our History

LiterARTure was born in 2016, when we were sitting outside the San Marco Starbucks in Jacksonville, Florida, bemoaning the lack of civil discourse in our world. 

Not the type to bemoan too, too much, we came up with an idea. “What if we married books and art, showing what we, as Americans, have in common?” Since then, using that template, we’ve presented numerous examples based on different themes in our annual LiterARTure series. 

LiterARTure is always packed with information and peppered with a healthy dose of wit! We’ll see you soon!

Check out a video from last season

  • Cindy and Stacey consistently provide discussions that are not only entertaining but expand my knowledge of literature and art. I appreciate the amount of time that they devote to creating their lectures.

  • This has been SO wonderful - what a fantastic lecture! Thank you both!!!

  • Thank you both so much. Very interesting! Always learn for you all! This series and the lecturers have been engaging. I appreciate the popular culture connections and other text-to-text connections.

  • References to basketball AND aphrodisiacs! You’ve outdone yourself!

  • Thank you both for the enlightening lesson. I was alternately gob smacked with your knowledge and amused by your humorous comments. I will never again look at Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black" in the same way.

  • Thank you both for the enlightening lesson. I was alternately gob smacked with your knowledge and amused by your humorous comments. I will never again look at Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black" in the same way.

  • The quality of this presentation was excellent! The lecturers were both interesting and connected well with the audience. It's one of the best executed museum online talks I've seen.

  • These ladies are fabulous.