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Walt Whitman’s Prose and Poetry in Products and Advertisements

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, NY, United States

Join us for a special FREE Exhibition Preview and Reception!  Member Preview 2:00 - 3:00 PM Public Preview 3:00 - 5:00 PM As part of our Bicentennial Celebration, we are pairing with esteemed Walt Whitman collector, Ed S. Centeno, with an exhibition featuring various cultural artifacts, commercial products, fine arts, and advertisements which depict segments [...]

Writers Making Books

Arcadia University Galleries, Spruance Galleries 450 South Easton Road, Glenside, PA, United States

This group exhibition is inspired by Walt Whitman’s instrumental role in the physical production of his many editions of Leaves of Grass, which—as scholar Edward Folsom has stated—the poet not only wrote, but made, “over and over again, each time producing a different material object that spoke to its readers in different ways” The show combines a selection of examples [...]

Walt Whitman in His Time and Ours

University of Delaware Morris Library Special Collections Gallery 181 South College Ave, Newark, DE, United States

Born in 1819, Walt Whitman is considered the greatest American poet of the 19th century. To celebrate Whitman’s bicentenary, this exhibition examines his life and work in the context of the era in which he lived, exploring Whitman’s influence on American life, culture and other writers through his time to the present.

Whitman, Alabama

Philadelphia Museum of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is a joyful celebration of the diversity at the heart of this country—and our connectedness to one another. To commemorate the great American poet’s 200th birthday, we’re taking part in citywide events with an installation of filmmaker Jennifer Crandall’s Whitman, Alabama, an ongoing project that brings the poem to life [...]

Walt Whitman: Poet of the Future – Opening Program and Reception

Rutgers-New Brunswick 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

The exhibition Poet of the Future will celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman by sharing rare books and manuscripts from Rutgers University Libraries’ collections. To mark the opening, Karen Karbiener, a Whitman scholar based at New York University, will talk about the portrait in the original edition of Leaves of Grass, and Barbara Henry, [...]

Walt Whitman: America’s Poet

New York Public Library 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Two hundred years after his birth, Walt Whitman remains one of America's most influential writers, arguably our national poet. His life's work, Leaves of Grass, is a perennial best-seller, and Whitman himself has attained the status of cultural icon, his name nearly a byword for notions of inclusivity, equality, sensuality, and the value of the individual. [...]

Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman

Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street, New York, New York, United States

How did a carpenter’s son, grammar school dropout and sometime hack writer become America’s greatest poet? To commemorate Whitman’s 200th birthday on May 31, 2019, this landmark exhibition showcases New York's role in the extraordinary transformation of Walter Whitman Jr. to “Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son.” Whitman is now universally acclaimed as [...]

Spencer Finch – Art Installation at RiverLink Ferry

Delaware River Waterfront 211 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Spencer Finch, a New York-based artist known for sculpture, installations, and drawings that capture fleeting natural phenomena and sensory experience, will create an interactive work on the RiverLink ferry that operates between Philadelphia and Camden. In Whitman’s day, a number of ferries connected the two cities, but today only one ferry runs, from May to [...]

Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia

Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) spent the last two decades of his life officially residing across the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey. This exhibition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary, on May 31, 2019, of the birth of Walt Whitman, focuses on the Camden/Philadelphia connection, both during Whitman's life and in the [...]

Opening Event for – Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia

Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for the opening event of this dynamic exhibition, which will be on display through August. Schedule of evening: 4:00 pm – Tour of exhibition with curator Lynne Farrington (Van Pelt Library, Kamin Gallery) 5:30 pm – Reading by poet Michael Dickman, winner of the James Laughlin Award and author of many books of poetry, including Green [...]

Whitman Pen and ink by J. Sokol, 1980

Walt Whitman Association – 200th Birthday Celebration

Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts -Stedman Gallery 314 Linden Street, Camden, New Jersey, United States

On May 29th the Walt Whitman Association will be ringing in the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman with our time- honored Annual Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration and the regional Walt Whitman High School Poetry Contest awards ceremony. This year’s reception and recitation of the winning poems will be held at the Rutgers University- Camden Stedman [...]

Democratic Vistas: Whitman, Body and Soul

Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts -Stedman Gallery 314 Linden Street, Camden, New Jersey, United States

This exhibition, in conjunction with the 200th anniversary, on May 31, 2019, of the birth of Walt Whitman, will examine the influence of Whitman's life and work on eight contemporary visual artists, and also will showcase select artifacts from the Walt Whitman House in Camden in relation to that art.

Opening Reception – The Clay Studio Graduate Student Biennial: Focus on Walt Whitman

The Clay Studio 137 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Clay Studio Graduate Student Biennial is an opportunity for graduate students focusing on ceramic art to show their work on a national platform. This year we are excited to have Judith Tannenbaum as our distinguished guest juror as we ask these young artists to connect with Walt Whitman in some way through their artwork.

Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy

Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This exhibition covers Whitman’s entire career, from his beginnings in Brooklyn to his afterlife in contemporary art and literature. Drawing on the Morgan’s own holdings and loans from the Library of Congress, it includes more than ninety manuscripts, first editions, paintings, prints, and photographs. Among the highspots on display will be manuscript trial lines for Leaves [...]

LGBTQ & Friends: We Contain Multitudes

Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman rejected conventions of uniform identity, famously declaring, “I contain multitudes.” Our second-annual LGBTQ & Friends party takes inspiration from this queer icon to celebrate the multiplicity of individuality and the true diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. Enjoy live music, curator talks, a complimentary wine bar, after-hours access to our [...]

John Ransom Phillips “Robust American Love”

BlackBook Presents Gallery 20 John Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Aug 26th Artist Exhibition Opening and Benefit to Celebrate Walt Whitman's 200th Anniversary titled - "Robust American Love" A Portion Of The Proceeds From The Gallery Will Benefit The Walt Whitman Initiative To Help Landmark The Poet’s Brooklyn Home Please join us today, Monday August 26th; reception for the artist 6pm - 7:30pm. BlackBook Presents invites you to the opening [...]

Walt Whitman: Poet of the Body

Providence Athenaeum 251 Benefit Street, Providence, RI, United States

The Providence Athenaeum will host a portion of the exhibition Walt Whitman: The Poet of the Body, which was on view at the Grolier Club in New York from May – July 2019.  The display at the Athenaeum will celebrate the history of Leaves of Grass, featuring the Athenaeum’s rare first edition inscribed by Whitman along with items from the [...]

One: Xu Bing

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Focusing on a major new gift to our world-renowned collection of Chinese art, One: Xu Bing highlights the painting Square Word Calligraphy: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman (2018) by one of China’s most important living artists. Created specifically for the Brooklyn Museum in consultation with curator Susan L. Beningson, the work celebrates Xu Bing’s close relationship with Brooklyn, [...]

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