Faculty Invite to Enriching Scholarship Artists' Books Workshop

I would like to invite interested faculty and graduate students to sign up for my Enriching Scholarship Workshop, Artist Books For Inspiration or Just for Fun, happening on Thursday, 5/8 from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm in The AAEL Special Collections Room, room B245 in the Duderstadt Center.

Artists’ books are books that were created as works of art. The Art, Architecture and Engineering Library (AAEL) Special Collections has a growing collection of artists’ books in its holdings. These books have been created via printing press, silk screening, painting, sewing, and numerous other processes. They are made from a wide range of media including aluminum, cloth, handmade paper and wood. The books vary greatly in size and structure. Some fit in the palm of a hand, while others span the length of a table. Some are bound, while others must be constructed to be read, and still others illuminate to be read in the dark. In this hands-on session, Annette Haines, the Art and Design Librarian, will showcase this vibrant and thought-provoking collection and discuss ways in which you might incorporate these books into your courses.

Click here to register for this workshop.

Enriching Scholarship is a weeklong, campus-wide conference sponsored by the Teaching and Technology Collaborative. Throughout the week of May 5th-9th free workshops are offered for faculty, staff, and students to support teaching and technology.
This year's Enriching Scholarship Keynote (Monday, May 5th) "From Disruption to Design: Technology and the Future of Residential Education" will be given by Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE.
Visit the Enriching Scholarship website to view the schedule and register for sessions.
Please join us for a week of teaching a learning together!

New space available for groups to meet and engage with library materials

This new space was recently created in the lower level of the Duderstadt Center near the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections room. Over the past several years, interest in special collections materials like artists' books has increased the number of classes visiting the collections. The new space offers a quiet, bright and flexible environment for special materials instruction and viewing. In addition, the space will be equipped with an 80" flat screen monitor allowing for demonstrations of databases and other digital content. When not in use for classroom visits, the room will be open for group study. The room will soon be entered into the Duderstdt Center Room Scheduling Online Reservation System at http://www.dc.umich.edu/scheduling/scheduling.htm so that other groups can book the space for meetings or events. If you have any questions about this space, please contact Annette Haines, the Art & Design Field Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.

Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop

Location: Street Gallery, 1st floor Art & Architecture Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Exhibition dates: September 2-October 21, 2013

Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 25 at 5:00 pm (following the reception), Duderstadt Center, Room 1180

Reception: Wednesday, September 25, from 4:00-5:00 pm, Street Gallery

Sponsor: University of Michigan Library

On Wednesday, September, 25th at 4:00 p.m. The University of Michigan Library will host a reception for the exhibition Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop featuring an artist talk by UM alumnae, Toby Millman, who will discuss her experiences completing a residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop to make her book, Facts on the Ground. For further information about Toby Millman see http://www.tobymillman.com/. Refreshments and free, full-color catalogs of the exhibition will be given away at the reception on a first come, first serve basis.

The Hand, Voice & Vision exhibition, on now until October 21st, presents artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most influential contemporary book artists in America. The forty works in Hand, Voice & Vision celebrate three facets that characterize the artist’s book program at Women’s Studio Workshop: the hand-made mark of the book-maker, the unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges new directions in the medium of book arts. For further information about the exhibition see: http://handvoicevision.com/

In 2012, the University of Michigan Library became a repository for the ongoing collection of artists’ books created at the Women’s Studio Workshop. This repository is located in the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library Special Collections. Works can be viewed online in the AAEL Special Collections Artists’ Books Database at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/artistsbooks or in person by appointment. Please contact Annette Haines, Art & Design Librarian at ahaines@umich.edu.

Online exhibit of printed works by artist Lynne Avadenka

Check out this fabulous online exhibition and interview of printed works (including many artists' books) by artist Lynne Avadenka. The exhibit was Curated by Peggy Daub, Outreach Librarian & Curator, Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan.

Language Comes After Artist: A Selection of Printed Works by artist Lynne Avadenka
http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/avadenka2013

Cuban Book Artist talk Dec 5th, 4-6pm at the Library Gallery

Rolando Estévez, from Matanzas, Cuba has created over 500 handmade artist books, magazines, plaquettes, and catalogs for the independent publishing house, Ediciones Vigía. His books are collected privately and in cultural institutions in Europe and the US, such as the British National Library, the Atlantic Art Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the U.S. Library of Congress, as well as numerous universities in the U.S., Canada and other countries in the Americas. The University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, holds a major collection of these extraordinary books.

Please join us for a retrospective presentation by Estévez as he speaks about his work designing these spectacular books over the last twenty-seven years and the role of being an artist in Cuba today. His presentation will be followed by a reception.

December 5, 2012

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Hatcher Library Gallery

Sam Karres: Sketchbooks -- October 24 Exhibit and Reception

The University of Michigan Library and the U-M Modern Greek Program invite you to an exhibit and reception on Wednesday, October 24 from 4-6 pm celebrating urban expressionist painter Sam Karres, who recently donated his sketchbooks to the Library.  His drawings, mostly in pen and ink, illuminate his city of Detroit.  Brief remarks by the artist and others followed by light refreshments.

AAEL acquires WSW archive of artists' books

The University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library recently acquired the complete collection of books published by the Women's Studio Workshop. The Women’s Studio Workshop operates and maintains an artists’ workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists, provides professional opportunities and employment to artists at all stages of their careers, and promotes programs designed to stimulate public involvement, awareness and support for the visual arts.

Here is a link to WSW searchable digital archive:
http://www.wsworkshop.org/archive_search.php

The UM archive of these books is housed in AAE Library Special Collections. Please contact me if you would like to make an appointment for you or your class to see them.

Annette Haines
Art & Design Field Librarian
ahaines@umich.edu