Join us virtually as Ridgefield storyteller and women’s studies scholar Dr. Darla Shaw takes on the role of prominent sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington who lived in Redding from 1939 to 1973. The program will focus on Anna as America’s first and foremost woman sculptor and her globally expansive body of work in over two hundred major museums. In addition, viewers will learn about Anna’s personal life, her relationship to Redding, her life as a philanthropist, women’s rights activist, and her numerous statues found in the Connecticut and New York area which one can easily visit. Several of her statues are located in Redding, one titled Torch Bearers can be found on the lawn of the Mark Twain Library.