Cline Ransome is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning picture books, including a verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet, and her debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, winner […]
Belote is the illustrator of Frankenslime and Valenslime. She is the author-illustrator of her debut early reader The Me Tree and her picture book Listen Up, Louella. She studied traditional […]
Faculty Exhibition Opening: Illustration Faculty Exhibition Lecture and Book Signing In conjunction with Illustration Faculty Exhibition, on view July 11 – September 22, 2024, at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, […]
The Francelia Butler Conference is hosted every summer by the Graduate Program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. Since 1995, this entirely student-run conference has honored critical and creative works […]
Building and maintaining a participatory, democratic society involves developing strategies for talking with and listening to people who don’t always share our perspectives and life experiences. Dr. Eboo Patel, author, […]
The first in the Batten Leadership Institute’s “Leading Together” speaker series will explore why and how love can be an effective leadership strategy and how to apply that strategy in […]
Reading: Thursday, October 9, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Mary Favret is Professor of English at John Hopkins University. Professor Favret has been teaching literature […]
Reading: Thursday, October 30, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Heather Christle is the author of In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf […]
Reading: Thursday, November 13, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Hollins Room, Library Workshop: “Translation vs. Transliteration vs. Multilingual Texts” Friday, November 14, 2025 • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm • […]
Edward Steffanni is an American artist born in Ohio. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. In Edward’s interdisciplinary practice, he […]
Reading: Thursday, February 12, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington […]
Join the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in welcoming 2026 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Dara Hartman discuss her artistic practice, particularly in relationship with her exhibition in the museum on view from […]