June 17 - October 8, 2006

What is your deepest, darkest secret? In this extraordinary exhibition at Reading Public Museum, PostSecret post cards showcase secrets shared from around the world. They deal with religion, suicide, violence, drugs, deception, loneliness, love, family and hope.

PostSecret is a worldwide community art project started by Frank Warren in November 2004. He invited strangers at Metro stations, Washington, D.C. art galleries, and used book shops to write down and illustrate a secret anonymously on a post card and mail it to him. The secret had to be true, and it had to be something that had never been shared with another person. These initial secrets were displayed at an art exhibition in D.C. Soon, Warren created a website, http://postsecret.blogspot.com, where he shares new secrets each week, and invites people to join in the project.

Over one year and 60,000 secrets later, PostSecret has become an international phenomenon, Warren travels around the world speaking about the PostSecret Project and the bestselling PostSecret book published in 2005. USA Today called Warren, "An award winning Blogger, a first-time author, an artist with a traveling exhibit, a possible documentary subject, the inspiration for a music video and the all-around media 'it' boy of the moment."

In many cases, the illustrations on these cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text. If art is a mirror reflecting ourselves, then PostSecret casts a revealing light onto our inner lives, showing the best and worst of what dwells there. Frank Warren calls them “graphic haiku.”

This exhibition is underwritten by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.