# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 01 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Donna Mintz will visit City Lights on Saturday, August 1st at 3:00pm to share her new book, Stars at Noon, in conversation with Brent Martin.

Weaving essay, memoir, and natural history with biography, STARS AT NOON is one artist's pilgrimage through a book and a love letter to its author, James Agee, whose untimely death becomes the thread connecting it all. We begin in the landscape of the American South, from the search for a lost grave on the author's Middle Georgia farm, to the hazy blue mysteries of the Cumberland Plateau in Agee's native Tennessee, and on to the red clay hills of Hale County, Alabama, where one hot summer in 1936, Agee found the subject of LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, his 1941 masterwork and collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that would change his life. Through seamless storytelling via wanderings in such disparate settings as The Lightning Field, artist Walter De Maria's 1977 installation on the remote High Plains desert of New Mexico, and the intimate streets of Greenwich Village in New York City, Agee's home for most of his adult life, STARS AT NOON delivers a meditation on art and beauty, themes that have informed the author's visual artmaking for more than thirty years, and a paean to time and silence and what is found, and lost, in both. Mintz's ultimate realization of what is knowable and what will forever remain hidden, abiding but invisible as the stars at noon, makes the most personal of journeys, its mysteries and its ultimate destination, into a story of universal meaning.

Donna Mintz is a visual artist whose work is held in public institutions and private collections internationally. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Sculpture magazine, the Sewanee Review, SWING, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the online arts journals Burnaway and ArtsATL.

Brent Martin is the co-owner of Alarka Expeditions in Franklin, North Carolina and the former executive director of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy. He is the author of several books, including George Masa’s Wild Vision and A Hiker's Guide to the Bartram National Recreation Trail in Georgia and North Carolina.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sylva/donna-mintz-presents-stars-at-noon-with-brent-martin/200030236236932
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, trips-adventures, health-wellness, meditation, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Sylva
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779
- **lat**: 35.37294
- **long**: -83.22335
- **full address**: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin being held?
  - **A:** Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin takes place on Sat, 01 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sat, 01 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm at 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin?
  - **A:** Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin is organized by City Lights Bookstore.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Sylva, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Donna Mintz presents STARS AT NOON with Brent Martin sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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