Press Releases
March 05, 2010
Author Paddy Calistro To Speak In Bartlesville
BARTLESVILLE, OK – A leading authority on Edith Head will be a part of a lecture and book signing at the Bartlesville Public Library on Thursday, March 25th.
Paddy Calistro is the co-author of the only authorized biography of famed Hollywood designer Edith Head. Her book, Edith Head’s Hollywood was published after the death of Edith Head. The evening with Calistro will include a preview of the exhibition, Lights! Camera! Fashion!: The Film Costumes of Edith Head at Price Tower Arts Center beginning at 5:30 p.m. At 6:30, Calistro will offer a public presentation about the life and work of Edith Head followed by a book signing.
Calistro is a long-time fashion journalist. She is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a West Coast reporter for Allure. Additionally, she has been a contributor to Glamour, Mademoiselle, House Beautiful, Elle, Four Seasons Magazine and others. She is now the publisher and editor-in-chief of Angel City Press, a publishing company she co-founded.
Copies of Calistro’s book, Edith Head’s Hollywood, may be purchased before the lecture at the Wright Place Museum Store. The exhibition continues through May 16th. For more information about the exhibition or the March 25th lecture, you can call 918-336-4949 or visit pricetower.org.
About Price Tower
The landmark destination for art, architecture and design, Price Tower Arts Center, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit, provides local, regional and global audiences with the experience of great art, architecture and design in an arts complex whose centerpiece is Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper, the Price Tower.
This National Historic Landmark building, completed in 1956, contains a museum with permanent and changing exhibition galleries; original and restored historic Wright interiors (available by tour); and The Wright Place museum store.
Visitors may also experience Wright's masterpiece as guests of Inn at Price Tower, a high-design hotel that the Arts Center has created within Wright's skyscraper, along with the Inn's eclectic Copper Bar.
Historic tours are available with advanced reservations. Admission is $10 adults, $8 seniors (65+), $5 students and children 16 and under and includes admission to the museum exhibitions (tax not included as may be applicable). For more information, the public may call 918.336.4949 or visit the web site at www.pricetower.org.
