When: March 9, 2023
Time: All Day
Location: Instagram
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3.) Send it to archlib@uh.edu along your contact info.
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The Architecture, Design, and Art Library proudly presents the work of featured artist ‘22-23 Roslyn M. Dupré. Her exhibit, The Persistence of Words, will be on view until May 2023.
Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist who works with basic materials and traditional craftsmanship to fashion woven, welded or wooden constructions. My materials vary with each project and my methods incorporate domestic handicrafts like hand-weaving, embroidery and knitting with fine art fabrication and foundry work. I am also a Creole woman of color from New Orleans who has lived in Texas for 17 years. Outside of my place of origin—and I am usually outside my place of origin—I am ambiguously other and my work is my response. Central to this work is the personal history of each material I use as my objects do not pretend to be without a past. With mixed media works that include unuseful tools, unwearable clothes, and unfamiliar furnishings, I attempt to conjure a world where superstition and religion, race and gender, and the mystical and the laborious are the foundation stones upon which the home is built. Throughout I allude to the writers of the American South and to a story of identity, unique to time and place. I seek to explore dark themes of inhumanity, blend them with mysticism, and open the door to redemption.
Bio
Roslyn M. Dupré is a New Orleans native and Houston resident of 17 years. In her sculpture and multidisciplinary practice, Dupré works with natural materials and traditional craftsmanship to fashion woven, welded, or wooden constructions. Her projects vary with concept and her methods often incorporate domestic handicrafts like hand-weaving, embroidery and knitting with fine art fabrication and foundry work. Dupré recently completed the Glassell Studio School Block programs XX and XXI and the Glassell/MFAH Certificate of Achievement in Sculpture. She is currently in the MFA program in Sculpture at the University of Houston. Recent solo shows include “Southern Gothic” in the Box 13 Back Gallery (2022) and “Savage Bayou” at the Bosque Gallery at LoneStar College (2022).
Virtual Pop-Up Library
Celebrate Irish American Heritage Month by browsing through our Virtual Pop-Up Library. Start by reading through a selection of curated art books available to view. Then follow us on social media to win FREE swag!
Virtual Pop-Up Library
Interested in knowing about floral design? Then check-out our Virtual Pop-Up Library in celebration of National Floral Design Day! Start by browsing through a selection of curated art books available to view. Then follow us on social media to win FREE swag! See more details.
When: February 28, 2023
Time: All Day
Location: Instagram
How to Win a Prize
1.) Follow the Architecture, Design, and Art Library’s page.
2.) Take a snapshot/picture.
3.) Send it to archlib@uh.edu along your contact info.
4.) Pick-up you prize!
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Pop-Up Art Library + Studio Sessions
The Jenkins Library will be partnering with Blaffer Art Museum Student Association during their LOVEMANIA event this Friday, Feb 10th, 2023 featuring Valentine’s Day themed activities. Students are welcome to visit their Pop-Up Library booth then browse through a selection of curated art books thematically related to the museum’s current exhibition Jacolby Satterwhite: We Are in Hell When We Hurt Each Other. There will also be free food and live music!
Date: February 10, 2023
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Wilhemina Grove (in front of the Moores School of Music)
About
Pop-Up’s
The Pop-Up Library program began in 2018 in collaboration with Blaffer Art Museum to introduce students to two campus resources. Each pop-up consists of curated art books thematically related to the museum’s current exhibitions.
Studio Sessions
Students are invited to join drop-in tours and hands-on activities to better connect with current exhibitions. The Blaffer regularly partners with the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library to a host a pop-up at each event where students can check out art books and supplies.
This event is free and open to all students
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Invites you to:
Go on a Blind Date with a Book Feb 6-13
About Event
Show your love to the library by participating in our annual Blind Date with a Book display located at the Architecture, Design, and Art Library starting Feb 6 – 13. Those that “rate their dates” will enter our prize drawing to win a gift card, winners will be announced on Feb 14th.
Rules
♥ First you check-out a “blind date” book without unwrapping it (no cheating).
♥ Read it!
♥ Easy rating forms included, so “rate your date” even if you didn’t finish it.
♥ Return the form to the library to enter our prize drawing.
♥ The more “dates” you rate, the higher chances of winning, so be sure to come back for more “blind dates.”
♥ Winners will be announced on Valentine’s Day.
Dates: February 6 – 13
Location: Architecture, Design, and Art Library
Time: During Library Hours
This event is free and open to the UH community
For questions, contact us at archlib@uh.edu
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Books and Bytes is a series of talks by local authors who discuss the research, writing, and publication of their art, architecture, or design book. Our community of scholars is invited to participate in discussions afterward, so they may learn from one another’s experiences. Books and Bytes is co-sponsored by the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and the University of Houston Libraries. 
We are pleased to host the editors of More City than Water: a Houston Flood Atlas, Lacy M. Johnson, Rice University, and Cheryl Beckett, UH College of the Arts, as well as Susan Rogers, UH College of Architecture and Design, who authored one of the chapters.
Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M. Johnson began collecting flood stories. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in America’s most diverse city, they also pointed to a consistent question: What does catastrophic flooding reveal about this city, and what does it obscure?
More City than Water brings together essays, conversations, and personal narratives from climate scientists, marine ecologists, housing activists, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians as they reflect on the human geography of a region increasingly defined by flooding. Both a literary and a cartographic anthology, More City than Water features striking maps of Houston’s floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated neighborhoods. Designed by University of Houston seniors from the Graphic Design program, each map, imaginative and precise, shifts our understanding of the flooding, the public’s relationship to it, and the fraught reality of rebuilding. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise.
This spring 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, are a selection of posters from Art in Posters, the Complete Original Posters of Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Leger, Matisse, Miro, and Picasso (1959).
On view upstairs in the mezzanine floor display case are a few plates from Sketches Abroad: Germany & Switzerland. Made Whilst Traveling Student of the Royal Academy (1876) by Bernard Smith.
These two exhibits will be available until June 2023.
The Architecture, Design, and Art Library proudly presents the work of featured artist ‘22-23 Javier Rivera. His exhibit, Street Corners, will be on view until March 2023.
Statement
My work expresses the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. I am able to express this by telling a story or creating a metaphor. It is characterized by using everyday objects and situations in an atmosphere of class difference, in which recognition plays an important role. It is through recognition that I can portray my community and speak to a broader audience. With this, I seek to investigate the representations of cultures and situations as well as depictions and ideas.
Bio
Javier Rivera is a Houston based artist who takes inspiration from subcultures, background, and landscapes. His paintings and artworks demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits, and often tells a story about cultural interactions. Rivera is currently a student at the University of Houston, in his final year of the School of Art’s Painting Program.
Spring 2022
March 22, 2022
Pop-up Library
Theme: Celebrating National Craft Month
May 12, 2022
Pop-Up Library
Theme: Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month
Fall 2022
September 22, 2022
Pop-up Library & Showcase
Theme: Celebrating LatinX Heritage Month
Starting December 15th the library will go into Intersession with limited hours.
Intersession Hours
Monday – Friday : 8am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday : Closed
Winter Break – Closed
Monday, December 26 – Friday, December 30
*Intersession hours resume January 2nd*
MLK Holiday – Closed
Monday, January 16, 2023
First Day of School
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
*Regular Hours Resume*
Monday – Thursday : 8am – 8pm
Friday : 8am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday : Closed