ACME Screening Room Presents Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light

Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

Pictured Above: Carol Cruickshanks.  Photo Credit: Contributed.

NEWSROOM POST: LAMBERTVILLE, NEW JERSEY

The special event at Acme Screening Room will include an art talk with art historian and educator, Carol Cruickshanks

Lambertville, NJ –  Join the Acme Screening Room on Saturday, June 21 at 5 pm for the new documentary, Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light. Stay afterwards for a post screening talk with art historian, lecturer and educator Carol Cruickshanks.

Georgia O’Keeffe is widely revered as the “Mother of American Modernism” and the greatest woman artist of the 20th century. In the 1920s, O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. She posed nude for shocking photographs by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz. But she denied the widespread belief that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model for American women. This feature documentary film stars Claire Danes as the Voice of Georgia O’Keeffe with narration by Hugh Dancy.

Pictured Above:

Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz posed in front of one of her paintings. . 

For more information and tickets, visit the website at  www.acmescreeningroom.org.

About the ACME Screening Room
ACME Screening Room is a nonprofit weekend theater that presents classic, independent, and documentary films to educate and inspire. Housed in a former supermarket in Lambertville, NJ, ACME is a space where audiences come together to discuss contemporary ideas presented through the world of film. As a cultural resource for the community, we invite participation through guest speakers and discussions; partnerships with local businesses and organizations; supporting new projects by artists and filmmakers; and screening films that reflect the diversity of our audience.