Grand Valley State University's Art & Design Department is thrilled to present Award-winning Graphic Designer and Best-selling Author, CHIP KIDD Tuesday, MARCH 18th, at 7:30pm in the Louis Armstrong Theater, inside the Performing Arts Center on GVSU's Allendale campus.
Graphic design pioneer Chip Kidd is credited with changing the way modern books are packaged. With THE LEARNERS, the fascinating follow-up to his debut novel The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd again shows that his writing is every bit as original and memorable as his celebrated book jackets. This time, Kidd conjures up a remarkable story about advertising, electro-shock torture, suicide, a giant dog, potato chips, and the Holocaust.
For THE LEARNERS, Kidd re-created the infamous Milgram psychology experiments, down to the very words found on historical tapes and transcripts. Originally designed to determine how much one individual would hurt another when given orders by an authority figure, the experiments have fresh currency today, when each news cycle reveals fresh details of horrific war atrocities. Ridiculed in their own time, Milgram and his team were the first to learn just how little we each would question authority, even in dire circumstances—a lesson we’re re-learning on a daily basis.
This event is free and open to the public.
Parking is available in Lots H & K, or at metered spots adjacent to the Arts Center
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