We’re excited to announce we’re participating in this year’s Shasta’s Open House! This “open house” event lets you visit dozens of departments and colleges while collecting freebies along the way! Learn about all our upcoming events, services, and ways you can get involved. The more stops you visit, the more prizes you can get! We’re giving away t-shirts, gas gift cards, and Beats headphones! Visit uh.edu/wow/shastas-open-house for more information

To collect points at the Architecture, Design, and Art Library & Blaffer Art Museum, you must visit each location.

Date: August 29 – August 31, 2023

Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm (everyday)

Location: Across Campus

UH professor and author of Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects, will discuss her latest book in the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library at 5 pm on Friday, August 25th.  This presentation is part of the Books + Bytes series, which serves as a platform for local authors of art and design books to discuss challenges and methods in art and design publishing with student and faculty researchers.

This fall semester the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library will host three author talks in its Books + Bytes series.  These talks serve as a platform to discuss challenges and methods in art and design research, writing, and publishing.  They are held in the library on Friday evenings at 5 pm.  Dates and speakers are listed below.

August 25th – Donna Kacmar, UH professor and author of Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects

September 29th – Pete Gershon, author of Impractical Spaces: Houston, an anthology of artist-run galleries, co-operatives, pop-ups, & other ad-hoc venues

October 25th – Kathryn O’Rourke with Ben Koush, authors of the forthcoming Home, Heat, Money, God:  Texas and Modern Architecture

Pop-Up Art Library + First Friday Exhibition Tours

Go on a fun tour exploring the artwork of John Guzman and Christopher Myers at Blaffer Art Museum. Then browse through a selection of art books from the Pop-Up Art Library while enjoying free food and giveaways. 

Date : Friday, September 1, 2023

Time: 12– 1 pm

Location: Blaffer Art Museum

About

Pop-Up’s
Since 2018, the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library has been partnering with Blaffer Art Museum to host Pop-Up Libraries each semester. It’s a fun and engaging way to promote services that provide instant connection to the UH community. Each pop-up consists of curated art books thematically related to the museum’s current exhibitions.

First Friday Exhibition Tours
We invite you to dive into Christopher Myers: of all creatures that can feel and think and John Guzman: Flesh and Bone with Erika Mei Chua Holum (assistant curator) and Nohelia Vargas Bolivar (docent). The conversational tour will explore how Myers’s fabric works, stained glass, and sculptures tell stories that mine the space between archive, myth, and the origin of ideas. We will uncover the methods and motivations behind the monumental paintings and drawings of John Guzman, which draw upon the artist’s experience living in San Antonio to make abstracted works including figurative elements, mining psychological and physical states.

**Free lunch provided after the Tour**

This event is free and open to all students

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An important change in access to EBSCO journal and database content has been activated, affecting direct links in syllabi, handouts, bookmarks, and other course materials.

Your saved links expire August 31, 2023. To ensure continued access, UH faculty are encouraged to immediately update any direct links in your materials (instructions below). This includes the affected databases, and any links or “permalinks” you may have used to access full text articles or journals that are provided through these EBSCO databases.

We regret the timing of this update, however EBSCO recently informed us that, due to a licensing change that goes into effect September 1, 2023, all of our links must be updated. Links are already updated on Libraries systems, including the website, subject and class guides, and course reserves. UH Libraries remains committed to ensuring continued access to this critical content and is working quickly to ensure seamless access through our systems for the beginning of the semester.  

Update your saved links using the following steps below: 

Update direct links to individual databases 

Step 1: Access the Libraries’ A-Z databases list 

Step 2: Find the database you intend to use and access from there 

Update links for journals 

Step 1: Access the Libraries’ Journal Title search 

Step 2: Search for the journal title of interest 

Step 3: Click on the Permalink button on the journal record, and copy the link 

Update links for articles 

Step 1: Access the article via the search box on the Libraries’ homepage  

Step 2: Search for the article title of interest and select it 

Step 3: Click on the Permalink button on the article record, and copy the link 

Journals and articles may be available from multiple vendor platforms or providers. For example, a specific journal may be provided by EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.; you may have multiple options to link to when performing these searches. 

While rare, certain kinds of hyperlinks (such as saved filtered searches) may need to be manually recreated to ensure correct link resolution, and these suggestions do not cover all hyperlinks that may be impacted. If you have any questions, please contact collections@uh.edu.  

To avoid having to update links in the future, we recommend that you access databases via the Libraries’ A-Z databases list and include your article readings via course reserves. 

We appreciate your understanding at this busy time in the year and we wish you a great start of the new semester.

This fall semester the Architecture, Design, and Art Library is exhibiting two new displays featuring items from the rare books room.

First, located on the first floor of the library, is a selection of mailed pages from David Horvitz 2020 “Lessons”. An art project that spawned from the pandemic, 32 short teaching units were developed in collaboration with his 5-year old daughter. Some of the lessons includes “change the name of the days” and “make a photograph of someone who is not there”.  

On view upstairs in the mezzanine floor display are a selection of plates from Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color. Printed in 1963 by Yale University Press, the color studies outline a set of principles and teaching methods for understanding and perceiving color in different ways.

These two exhibits will be available until December 2023.