We are thrilled to announce that Steff Rocknak has recently won a national competition sponsored by the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her work to represent the relation- ship of writer Herman Melville’s relationship with New Bed- ford is entitled Melville and Jonah’s Journey. A committee selected the work from more than 40 proposals submitted by artists nationwide.
While Melville never lived in New Bedford, he wrote of the city in his most famous book, Moby-Dick or the White Whale. The novel was published in 1851. He describes New Bedford as ” perhaps the dearest place it lives in, in all New England.”
