Visual Language Book Club

Free and open to Tyler Museum of Art Members, Visual Language is a book club focusing on all things art. This year’s texts focus on photography. The 2026 series is being facilitated by Anne McCrady.

Anne McCrady’s poems and articles have been included in a wide variety of literary journals, arts magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She is also a community organizer, inspirational speaker and teacher.

Each discussion will take place in the TMA Classroom at 2:30 p.m.
The meeting dates and corresponding texts are:

Sunday, March 29 • Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History by Anika Burgess
Sunday, May 3 • Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines by Carol Kino
Sunday, July 26 • Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer by Robert Sullivan
Sunday, September 20 • Frank S. Matsura: Iconoclast Photographer of the American West edited by Michael Holloman
Sunday, November 8 • Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos

This program is generously sponsored by Bill Burhoe.