When: September 22, 2022
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!
Pop-Up Art Library + Studio Sessions
Come find us during BAMSA’S RED BLOCK BASH featuring multidisciplinary student art performances. There will also be fun art making activities, tours, giveaways, prizes, and fun books available for check-out from the Pop-Up Library booth.
Date: October 6, 2022
Time: 4:00- 6:00pm
Location: Fine Arts Courtyard
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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Virtual Pop-Up Library
Browse through a selection of curated art books celebrating LatinX Heritage Month. Those that follow us on social media will WIN a prize!
The Architecture, Design, and Art Library & Blaffer Art Museum
Present:
Pop-Up Art Library + Studio Sessions
Come find the Pop-Up Library booth and browse through a selection of curated art books after touring Maria Guzmán Capron’s exhibition. Then get a chance to meet the artist while enjoying free food! In partnership with Blaffer Art Museum and BAMSA.
Time: 1:30- 2:30pm
Location: Fine Arts Courtyard
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 and featured catalogs for sale.
Studio Sessions
Blaffer Art Museum offers Studio Sessions the first Thursday of every month during the fall and spring semesters. 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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Join us for a series of guided tours of Finding Your Way with Wayfinding: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin. Meet at the Blaffer Art Museum and tour the exhibition. Embark on a journey across campus to discover Wind Prints, Spray Pieces, and an Artist Book, exploring the artists’ works at Special Collections at M.D. Anderson Library, Student Center, and Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library.
Learn about how the artists practice explores history and combines multiple media and performance to uncover the unheralded histories of LGBTQ communities across the United States. The works in Wayfinding are part of the 50 States project—an ongoing, multi-decade series that will be accomplished throughout the artists’ lifetimes—explores how the histories and legacies of elements found and forgotten affect the contemporary LGBTQ+ experience. Finish the tour at the Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library, where you will converse over refreshments, as well as a prize drawing.
Organized in partnership with the Jenkins Architecture, Design, and art Library, Special Collections at the M.D. Anderson Library, and the Student Center.
Students who sign-up for the tours will automatically enter our prize drawing. Sign-up online here.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Tour Schedule + Featured Performance
Tuesday, Sep 6, 2022
Time: 11: 00am – 12:30pm
Location: Meet at the Blaffer and tour the exhibition.
Reception and prize drawing to follow in the Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library
Wednesday, Sep, 7 2022
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: Meet at the Blaffer and tour the exhibition.
Reception and prize drawing to follow in the Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library
Wednesday, Sep, 7 2022
Time: 2:30 – 3:30pm
Nick & Jake Spray Painting Performance
Creating of “Freemont née Stewart Lake”
Location: Wilhelmina’s Grove
Attend the creation of an original artwork, part of Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s series! Visit other works in the series at the Student Center and the Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library at University of Houston.
The Architecture, Design, and Art Library is now accepting student exhibition proposals for the 2022-2023 season. Open call due date is September 30, 2022. See website for more details
We are happy to announce that all undergraduate students will now be able check-out books for a whole semester! However, it does not apply to books belonging to UH Downtown, Clear Lake, and Law. See details below.
UH Libraries (Main Campus)
| Undergraduates | Semester Loan |
UH Law
| Undergraduates | 2-Weeks Loan |
UH Downtown
| Undergraduates | 6-Weeks Loan |
UH Clear Lake
| Undergraduates | 6-Weeks Loan |
*Note that, reserves, media, and other special items may have different lending periods.*
This June the Architecture, Design, and Art Library is celebrating Pride Month with a new book display! All books available for check-out.
The Architecture, Design, and Art Library will have new intersession & summer hours. See details below.
Intersession I Hours
May 13 – June 5
Monday – Friday : 8am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday : Closed
Summer Hours
June 6 – August 12
Monday – Friday : 8am – 5pm
Saturday: 1 – 5pm
Sunday: Closed
Intersession II Hours
August 13- 21
Monday – Friday : 8am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday : Closed
Holidays
Memorial Day- Closed
Monday, May 30, 2022
Independence Day- Closed
Monday, July 4, 2022
This week’s book display is themed after Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Browse through a selection of curated books celebrating artists & architects from Asian & Pacific Islander backgrounds. All book available to check-out.
This week’s book display is themed after Jewish American Heritage Month. Browse through a selection of curated books celebrating artists & architects of Jewish background. Then scan the QR Code to view a complimentary Virtual Pop-Up Library.
