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.
Come visit Blaffer Art Museum and the Architecture, Design, and Art Library during Shasta’s Open House. Then engage in fun art making activities, pick-up free giveaways, and learn about our amazing resources, services, events and much more!
Shasta’s Open House
Date: Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Time: 11:00am -3:00pm
Location: Multiple locations
Visit dozens of departments and colleges while collecting freebies along the way! Learn about their upcoming events, services, and ways you can get involved.
The more stops you visit, the more giveaways you can get! Some prizes include t-shirts, gas gift cards, and a Nintendo Switch! See UH Calendar Here.
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
The last speakers in the 2021-2022 Books and Bytes series are Tom Diehl, associate professor of Architecture at Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and graphic designer Eric Dowding. They will speak about the creation of Diehl’s newest book Internal: Developing Informed Architectural Languages.
When: April 13, 2022
Time: 6pm
Where: Virtual
Join Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 972 8012 6319
Passcode: 571741
https://zoom.us/j/97280126319?pwd=aUVoTXU4NXZsNktHc3E3ZE90N3pJZz09
Show us your love by celebrating National Library Week at the Architecture, Design, and Art Library 04/03- 04/09. Every day, you may spin the wheel for a chance to win a mystery bag so come while supplies last. There will also be a complementary book display, art making activities and much more!
Celebration Days During National Library Week
Monday, April 4: State of America’s Libraries Report released, including Top Ten Frequently Challenged Books of 2021.
Tuesday, April 5: National Library Workers Day, a day for library staff, users, administrators, and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers.
Wednesday, April 6: National Library Outreach Day (formerly National Bookmobile Day), a day to celebrate library outreach and the dedicated library professionals who are meeting their patrons where they are.
Thursday, April 7: Take Action for Libraries Day, a day to rally advocates to support libraries.
Where: Architecture, Design, and Art Library
Dates: April 3- 9
Time: Library Opening Hours
This event is free and open to the public
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The ADA Library, Blaffer Art Museum and B.A.M.S.A
present:
Pop-Up Library & Studio Sessions + RED BLOCK BASH Apr 7
Pop-Up Art Library & Studio Sessions + BAMSA’S RED BLOCK BASH
RED BLOCK BASH is a multidisciplinary celebration of the arts featuring student performances from various organizations. There will also be fun tours, art making activities, prizes, giveaways, and selection of curated art books from the Pop-Up Library booth.
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Fine Arts Courtyard
This event is free and open to the public
Pop-Up’s
The Pop-Up Library program began in 2018 in collaboration with Blaffer Art Museum and the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library 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.
Blaffer Art Museum Student Association
The Blaffer Art Museum Student Association (BAMSA) was founded in 2005 with the goal to increase student participation in the museum community, enabling students to enrich their educational experience and the museum to reach an important audience. Today, BAMSA builds a creative community open to students across disciplines that sparks students’ quest for knowledge and pursuit of artistic endeavors.
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The Architecture, Design, and Art Library
Invites you to:
Go on a Blind Date with a Book Feb 7-13 
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 7 – 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 7 – 13
Location: Architecture, Design, and Art Library
This event is free and open to the UH community
For questions, contact us at archlib@uh.edu
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The ADA Library, Blaffer Art Museum, and Public Art UHS
present:
Pop-Up Library & Studio Sessions + CollageShop Feb 3
Pop-Up Art Library & Studio Sessions + CollageShop
In partnership with Blaffer Art Museum’s First Friday Studio Sessions, and Public Art UHS browse through a selection of curated art books and museum catalogues thematically related to the museum’s current exhibition Caroline Mesquita: Noctambules. Then participate in collage-making led by the notable artist Tay Butler’s CollageShop.
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Blaffer Art Museum
This event is free and open to the public
Register Here.
Pop-Up’s
The Pop-Up Library program began in 2018 in collaboration with Blaffer Art Museum and the Architecture, Design, and Art Library 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.
CollageShop
CollageShop is presented in partnership with Public Art UHS. This workshop is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis. Space is limited and registration is required. All workshop materials will be provided to participants.
Tay Butler is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Houston while teaching and studying in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Currently an MFA candidate of the University of Arkansas’ Photography and Studio Art program, he received his BFA in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston. His work We Are Still Searching…, currently on view at UH’s Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard, uses the medium of collage to revisit the Great Migration of six million African Americans out of the South, as well as explores the current Re-Migration to the South. The 14-foot-tall collage includes items such as old magazine advertisements from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as well as billboard images passed by Black Americans along their north/southward routes.
See Tay Butler’s past Student Art Exhibition archived in the UH Digital Library.
The Architecture, Design, and Art Library
presents:
A Virtual Pop-Up Library via Dec 13 via Instagram
Virtual Pop-Up Library
Browse through a selection of curated art books featuring books celebrating Human Rights Month. Follow us on social media and win a prize!