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The Sixth Annual UH Libraries’ Student Art Exhibition will open Friday, February 22nd at 5:00 pm on the third floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. Attendees will experience the original work of up-and-coming UH artists from multiple classifications and academic departments. Attendees will also have the opportunity to mingle with the student artists themselves, as well as the exhibition’s jurors and organizers.
This exhibit was juried by Raphael Rubinstein, author, UH professor, and former editor of Art in America, Susan Sutton, Curatorial Assistant at the Menil Collection, Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education at UH’s Blaffer Art Museum, and Christine Jelson West, Executive Director of Lawndale Art Center.
Features the work of: Peter Broz, Araceli Casas, Jose Cordova, Brenda Cruz, Chanquilla Gordon, Vladimir Hernandez, Lan Hoang, Darwin Itzep, Greg Jackson, Daniar Listyasari, Lauren Fort, Linh O’Briant, Frederick Ockrassa, Tiffany Perez, Sandra de la Rosa, Sonakshee Shree, Jason Wilkinson, Amy Wright, and Brandon Zech.
UH Libraries’ 6th Annual Student Art Exhibit 2013
The Architecture and Art Library is now accepting artwork for the UH Libraries’ sixth Annual Student Art Exhibit, a competitive juried exhibit that will be on display in the M.D. Anderson Library February 22 – April 12, 2013. Jurors will include curators from the Menil Collection and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as prominent members of the Houston arts community and UH School of Art faculty.
The exhibit is open to all UH students enrolled spring 2013 – any classification or major. Students are welcome to submit multiple entries. Requirements of submissions: 2D in any medium, ready to hang with wires/brackets or on foam core, not to exceed 5’x5’, 5 pounds, or extend more than 4” from the wall. Sculpture with pedestals, no more than 20 pounds total and must fit inside a library elevator.
Students should submit their work to the Architecture and Art Library, located in the College of Architecture. Deadline for submissions is February 8, 2013. Artists must complete a waiver form, as well as an exhibition agreement for each work submitted.
For more information visit the Architecture and Art Library’s homepage at info.lib.uh.edu/aa or contact archlib@mail.uh.edu
Our front lobby book display is ready for Thanksgiving, are you? If you’re still looking for some recipes, the book display is what you need. Topics ranging from Texas to Potlucks to Weight Watchers, find what you need. Also on display are different ideas about where to volunteer during the holiday season so check it out!
Hope you all have a safe holiday.
As you might have noticed, things are looking a little different around here. We’ve updated our blog system and have retired our inactive blogs. The new updates have included:
Let us know what you think!
Update: 2:14 Library chat is back up!
The libraries’ chat service is currently unavailable. There is an issue with the vendor’s servers. They are working to resolve the issue. For updates follow the vendor’s twitter feed: http://twitter.com/libraryh3lp.
Registration is now open for a three day interdisciplinary arts symposium on artistic explorations of commemoration, death, and dying, hosted by the University of Houston Libraries on October 25-27, 2012.
“The Art of Death & Dying” is co-sponsored by the Blaffer Art Museum, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Department of Hispanic Studies, Honors College, and School of Art, as well as two community partners, the National Museum of Funeral History and Preservation Houston.
Papers will be presented in the fields of architecture and landscape architecture, art criticism and theory, art history, cultural studies, dance, film and television, literature and music. Some papers will be presented in Spanish. Speakers include scholars, graduate students and authors from five continents.
In addition to the 57 juried presenters, the program includes invited speakers, a music recital, tours of historic Houston cemeteries and two museums, an artist’s talk with Dario Robleto, a film screening and a gallery talk.
Registration is $50 and $20 for students. The registration fee includes the cost of breakfast and lunches during the symposium.
See our website for programs, papers and events.
Want to know more about the summer olympics, it’s history, all of the sports included, even the rest of the schedule and where to find results? Then check out the books and image display at the M.D. Anderson Library, first floor in front of the computer labs. There are books not only on the Olympics, but on nearly all the sports as well as on sports in the media, sports psychology, sports management, coaching–even how to be a talent scout.
The catalog will be down and unavailable Thursday, May 17th from 7:00pm – 10:00pm. This downtime is necessary in order to install a required upgrade to the system. This upgrade is scheduled to occur this evening (May 17) at 7:00pm. If all goes well, the catalog will not be down longer than 3 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Proposals related to death in Latin American art and visual culture are encouraged. The organizers will accept presentations in both Spanish and English.
Papers will be selected based upon the quality of the proposal (including merit of the topic, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme), the proposal’s ability to provoke critical exchange and debate, and opportunities for interaction between participants that will enable attendees to engage in a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
Presenters will be afforded the opportunity for their symposium paper/presentation to be published in the Texas Digital Library.
Papers will be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by ten minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted on the symposium website.
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2012.
