Events

2020

Bridget Quinn and Kate Schatz in Conversation
San Francisco Public Library
September 8, 2020 12:00 – 1:00 pm

SHE VOTES BOOK LAUNCH!
Green Apple Books
August 18th, 2020 5:00pm
Watch video of the book launch event here

Big Sky authors Russell Rowland and Bridget Quinn 
Folio Books
February 7th, 2020 6:30 pm

LibraryFest 2020: Vanessa Hua & Bridget Quinn discuss their new books
Walnut Creek Library Foundation
September 23, 2020 8:00 – 9:00 pm

19^th Amendment Centennial: “She Votes” with Bridget Quinn
Queens Public Library
August 26th, 2020 3:00 – 4:00 pm

Women Who Changed Art (and A Big Reveal!)
Philbrook Museum of Art
February 28th, 2020 6:30 pm

2019

Women at the Edges: Featuring Writers Grotto authors Bridget Quinn, Kristin Kaye and Beth Winegarder
Odd Mondays Reading Series
Folio Books
June 3rd, 2019 7:00 pm

Storyfort at Treefort Music Festival: Broad Strokes – Women Making Art & Making History
Downtown Boise, Idaho
March 23rd, 2019 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Late Night Talk: Broad Strokes with Bridget Quinn
Dallas Museum of Art
March 15th, 2019 7:00 pm

2018

Kingsley Art Club Lecture Series: Bridget Quinn, Art Historian 
Crocker Art Museum
November 28th, 2018 1:15 pm

Yuba Lit Presents She Persisted: Bold Women Artists
Featured author.
The Stone House
May 31st, 2018 7:30 pm 

Mokulē’ia Writers Retreat
Instructor: What We Talk about When We Talk about Art: Narrative nonfiction in search of a soul
Waialua, Hawaii
May 6th – 11th, 2018

The Others: A Dramatic Reading by Matthew Rohrer & Special Guests
The Bindery hosts a performance of Matthew Rohrer’s novel in verse, The Others, featuring guest readers Daniel Handler, Arisa White, Bridget Quinn, and Matthew Zapruder The Bindery
April 25th, 2018 7:30 pm 

Treefort Music Fest: StoryFort
Featured author and co-host of The GrottoPod Podcast: Writers on Writing
Owyhee Tavern
March 23rd, 2018 6:00 pm & March 24th, 2018 7:30 pm 

Sacramento Public Library Foundation: Authors on the Move!
Featured author for annual literary event sponsored by the Sacramento Library Foundation
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
March 10th, 2018 5:00 – 10:00 pm

15th San Francisco Writers Conference 
Panel: Bang-Up Book Publicity
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
February 17th, 2018 11:00 am 

Quiet Lightning Series
Reading and book signing.
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
July 21st, 2018 7:00 pm 

“My Favorite Book” – Live Podcast
Join GrottoPod hosts Bridget Quinn and Larry Rosen as they team up with the San Francisco Public Library to present “My Favorite Book,” a live podcast series that invites notable local authors to discuss the books that made an indelible impact on their lives
San Francisco Public Library: Koret Auditorium
May 22nd, 2018 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Hawaii Book & Music Festival
Frank F. Fasi Civic Grounds
Honolulu, Hawaii
May 5th – 6th, 2018

Author Breakfast at Stanford University
Featured author
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
April 18th, 2018 

LAHS Writers Week
Featured author
Eagle Theater – Los Altos High School
March 13th, 2018 7:30 pm 

SAHBA Salon: Ethereal Landscape
In conversation with New York Times best-selling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, KQED Arts and Culture Reporter Chloe Veltman, Lava Mae Founder/CEO Doniece Sandoval and “Invisible Gifts” poet/author Maw Shein Win.
Themes+Projects Gallery
March 3rd, 2018 4 – 6 pm

Lecture: Women in Art
North Carolina Museum Art
January 28th, 2018 2:00 pm

2017

Art Book Club
Book discussion: Broad Strokes
Toledo Museum of Art
Art Library
November 14th, 2017 5:30 pm

Litquake
Graphically Inclined: Books To Look At
San Francisco, California
California Institute of Integral Studies
October 11th, 2017 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Chautauqua Women’s Club
Broad Strokes: Women Who Made Art and Made History
Chautauqua, New York
August 8th, 2017 9:15 – 10:15 am

SF Art Book Fair
Book signing with Chronicle Books
San Francisco, California
1275 Minnesota Street, SF
July 22nd, 2017 3:00 – 4:00 pm

Bay Area Book Festival 
Downtown Berkeley
June 4th, 2017

Hawaii Book & Music Festival.
Authors Pavilion Mauka, Honolulu.
May 6, 2017  4:00 pm

Vermin on the Mount, San Diego
3rd Space
April 15th, 2017 7:00 pm

Sahba Salon: Women, Art & Power.
In conversation with NY Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims and artist Sahba Shere
Palo Alto, CA
April 13th, 2017 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Book Launch!
International Women’s Day with Broad Strokes and Las Esperanzas
Folio Books
March 8th, 2017 7:00 – 8:00 pm.

“You Say You Want a Revolution: Female Painters, the French Revolution & the Fallacy of Connoisseurship”
Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia
January 19th, 2017

2016

Litcrawl 2016: San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Presents, Mistakes Were Made
October 15th, 2016 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Book Talk with Bridget Quinn
South San Francisco Main Library
November 12th, 2017  2:30 – 3:30 pm

Notre Dame de Namur University Creative Writing Series
Reading and book signing
Belmont, California
September 20th, 2017 7:30 pm

Chautauqua Institute School of Special Studies
Broad Strokes: Women Who Made Art and Made History
Chautauqua, New York
August 7th-11th, 2017 12:30 – 1:45 pm

Book Signing with Bridget Watson Payne and Bridget Quinn at the de Young
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
June 30th, 2017 5:00 – 8:00 pm
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, SF

Mokulē’ia Writers’ Retreat
What We Talk about When We Talk about Art: Narrative nonfiction in search of a soul
Waialua, Hawaii
May 7th-12th, 2017

Center Stage: Authors in Conversation
Firehouse Arts Center
May 1st, 2017  7:00 pm

Vermin on the Mount, L.A.
Book Show – 5503 N. Figueroa St., Highland Park
April 14th, 2017 7:00 pm

“Name One Great Woman Artist, A Case History.”
San Francisco Waldorf High School
March 20th, 2017 11:00 am

Inside Storytime: “The Margins”
Martuni’s in the Piano Room
February 22nd, 2017 6:30 – 8:30 pm.