The Lenox Library is pleased to announce the 16th season of its Distinguished Lecture Series, organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin. The first lecture of the 2022-2023 season will take place on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. when Carl Sprague will discuss his work as a designer for stage and film, including his work with famed film director Wes Anderson.

Carl Sprague has worked in the art department of more than 30 films, which between them have a combined total of 29 Oscar nominations, including best picture winner 12 Years a Slave. He has worked with Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence), Steven Spielberg (Amistad), and David Fincher (The Social Network), but the most enduring collaboration has been with Wes Anderson. Sprague has been in the art department of three of Anderson’s best-reviewed films — The Grand Budapest Hotel (concept illustrator), 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom (assistant art director), and 2001’s cult classic The Royal Tenenbaums (art director, for which he was nominated for an Art Director’s Guild Award). He lives in Stockbridge and New York.

The Lenox Library’s Distinguished Lecture Series will continue as follows:

  • October 23, 2022, Donald Morrison, “The New Gilded Age”
  • November 20, 2022: Rebecca Sheir and Eric Shimelonis, Host and Composer of WBUR’s Circle Round (children welcome to attend)
  • January 29, 2023: Kendra T. Field, Historian-in-Residence, The Du Bois Freedom Center
  • February 26, 2023: “The Hidden People of the Berkshires,” featuring the leaders of Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity; Construct; and Western Massachusetts Labor Action
  • March 26, 2023, Janet Pumphrey and Al Harper, “Accused Murderers Deserve Lawyers, Too: A Lenox Law Couple Takes on the Task”
  • April 23, 2023: Author Aimee Molloy

All lectures will take place at 4:00 p.m. and are free and open to the public. For more information, click here.

Now in its 16th season, the Distinguished Lecture Series is organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin. Dr. Yudkin is a resident of the Berkshires and Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University. Every summer at the Lenox Library he presents pre-concert lectures for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood season.