The Bear, Big Read 2024

This exhibition is a critical component of Eastern’s fourth consecutive National Endowment of the Arts, Big Read Award –Andrew Krivak's novel, The Bear (2019). The title of this exhibition originates from Krivak’s earlier novel, The Sojourn (2012), which describes a primordial place – a land “of no maps or borders, no rifles or artillery, no men or wars to claim possession of land, and snow and rock alone parried in a match of millennial slowness…” The land, in its ancient grandeur before human greed descended upon it, weaves a vivid thread through Krivak’s writing.