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What Makes Us Human? Exhibit Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Institute of Human Origins

March 27, 2012 · Hayden Library · (No comments)

Exhibit:  What Makes Us Human? (exhibit and book display)

Location:  Hayden Library, Lower Concourse / Entrance Level (adjacent to Instruction Room C41)

Available:  March 25 – April 30, 2012, during normal library hours

Description: ASU’s Institute of Human Origins is celebrating its 30th anniversary.  This exhibit and book display  invites you to:
Read… about paleoanthropology and how scientists think we “became human”

Discover… Hadar, Ethiopia and Mossel Bay, South Africa through photographs from the institute’s field research

Hear… about the future of human origins research at a symposium April 27, Neeb Hall, ASU Tempe campus.

More information on the symposium can be found on the Institute of Human Origins web site

Please browse and enjoy the selection of books from the ASU Libraries’ collection. All materials may be checked out at the Information/Check Out desk.

Questions about the materials and book display can be directed to Juliann Couture

Essay/Creative Project Contest – Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible

March 5, 2012 · All locations · (No comments)

Summary:  Students are invited to submit an original scholarly essay or creative project exploring the cultural impact of the King James Bible. Monetary prizes of up to $400! Deadline April 13, 2012.

 

Contest Details:

In conjunction with Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible exhibit and related public programs (Fall 2011), ASU students are invited to submit an original scholarly essay or creative project exploring the cultural impact of the King James Bible. The essay or creative project may focus on any historical period since 1611, the publication year of the King James Bible.

 

Essay Format: 1,500-2,000 words, double-spaced, Times New Roman, size 12.

Creative Project: any format or media is welcome; submit three-dimensional works by emailing photos.

 

First Place: $400

Second Place: $250

Third Place: $100

Deadline: April 13, 2012.

 

Learn more about the King James Bible:

 

More information/ submission: Rachel Leket-Mor, Manifold Greatness at ASU Project Director, rachel.leket-mor@asu.edu

The contest is co-sponsored by ASU Libraries and the School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. The traveling exhibit was organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas. The traveling exhibition was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Image credit: Title page Bible. English. Authorized. London, 1611. Folger Shakespeare Library.

 

 

“Visual Variety” by Artist Eunju Gerry at Polytechnic Library

March 2, 2012 · Polytechnic campus · (No comments)

“Eve and Adam” by Enju Gerry

Exhibit: “Visual Variety”

Artist: Eunju Gerry

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: Feb. 25, 2012 through May 26, 2012 during normal library hours

Description: Eunju Gerry, a native of Bussan, Korea combines her unique blend of three dimensional texture, bold colors and vibrant abstraction to her nearly 30 works on exhibit at Poly library. Her work is a departure from the more typical Asian style of soft textures and pastels and serves to convey the artists deepest emotions. Check out her portraits, abstracts, still life’s and cityscapes in this eclectic exhibit of her art.

For more information about Eunju visit: eunju-art.com.

ASU Libraries Hidden Treasures: Labriola Kachina Dolls (video)

February 21, 2012 · All locations, Hidden Treasures, podcasts · (No comments)

Welcome to our new video series, ASU Libraries Hidden Treasures. Each episode of Hidden Treasures will explore the artifacts, images, collections and unique gems of the ASU Libraries you didn’t even realize were available.

This inaugural episode features anthropology librarian Juliann Couture and Joyce Martin, curator of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, looking at the Center’s display of unique Hopi Kachina dolls. Four of the kachinas (Navan Kachina; Talavi Kachina; Flute Kachina; and Ahöla Kachina) were created by artist, carver, and former ASU employee Tony Dukepoo as a gift to the libraries in 1979.  The kachina dolls are on display in the Labriola Center located on the 2nd floor of the Hayden Library on ASU’s Tempe campus.

We also get a glance at the Center and all the resources available. The Labriola Center is the most comprehensive center for Indigenous research at the university. You can even search the American Indian Index to see the Labriola Center holdings before you come in. So grab a drink,  put on your headphones and click play.

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Get guided help researching Kachinas and other Native American topics

About Tony Dukepoo
Born in Walpi on First Mesa, Tony Dukepoo left to attend Phoenix Indian School when he was 13 years old. While there he learned painting and carpentry. He also participated in the band and performed for President Kennedy’s inauguration. Tony joined the staff at ASU in 1962 as a painter and was a mason of the 32nd Degree. In keeping with Hopi tradition he was a member of the Flute Clan and participated in Hopi ceremonies and dances. Over the years he donated time and knowledge in an effort to preserve Hopi heritage. In 1978, he was a consultant on an exhibit of Hopi musicial instruments at the Smithsonian Institution. He retired from ASU in 1979.

Episode: Labriola National American Indian Data Center Kachina Dolls
Host: Juliann Couture
Guest: Joyce Martin
Running Time: 3:32

Arizona Architecture from the Archives (Exhibit)

February 17, 2012 · Architecture Library · (No comments)

Albert Chase McArthur exhibit. McArthur was the architect of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Cottages.

Exhibit: Arizona Architecture from the Archives

Location: Architecture and Environmental Design Library, Tempe campus

Available:  Through March 16 (see below for detailed dates), during normal library hours

Description:  Celebrating the Arizona Centennial with an Exhibition of Four Architects from the Archives of the Architecture & Environmental Design Library at the Arizona State University Libraries.

Although the Library’s display area is modest in size, the Architecture and Environmental Design Library is very pleased to be able to display some of its own material from its archival collections about distinctive Arizona-designed architecture in central Arizona. A component of this effort is to celebrate the centennial of Arizona’s statehood. Furthermore, we hope to provide an opportunity for our researchers to see the types of architecture-related artifacts we have in our archives (e.g., original blueprints, construction photographs, early/late architect-produced renderings, presentation boards, hand-painted images, and the like) and which are available for their potential research.

The exhibit will feature the four architects as follows:

Through February 21 Albert Chase McArthur — Architect , Arizona Biltmore Hotel + Cottages (Phoenix) 

Albert Chase McArthur is the architect of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel which opened in Phoenix in 1929. The Library’s archives include sets of blueprints, sections, plans, renderings, construction photographs, and the like of both the both the hotel and cottages.
February 22 – February 29 William P. Bruder — Architect, Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library
March 1 – March 8 Alfred Newman Beadle — Architect, Case Study Apartment # 1 and other Phoenix mid-century buildings
March 12 – March 16 Fred Linn Osmon — Architect of award-winning residential and commercial buildings in central Arizona

Additional information about the exhibit and the featured architects can be found online on the companion LibGuide.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact Deborah Koshinsky, director of the Architecture and Environemental Design Library at deborah.koshinsky@asu.edu.

GIS@ASU! Spatial Research Resources Are Available For YOU!

February 8, 2012 · Noble Library · (No comments)

Exhibit: GIS@ASU! Spatial Research Resources Are Available For YOU!

Location:  Noble Science and Engineering Library, First Floor

Available:  Spring 2012, during normal library hours

Description: For centuries, in order do spatial analysis, observe basic spatial patterns, or make a map of one’s study area, researchers needed to have cartographic skills or at least have access to printed base maps. The user-friendliness of modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) interfaces has evolved rapidly in the past decade to become much more intuitive.

As a result, the number of researchers leveraging spatial tools and GIS in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences has grown exponentially during the past decade. Spatial resources allow one to visualize and analyze data patterns in order to explore topics in your branch of academia.

This exhibit focuses on the support of spatial analysis and map making by ASU Libraries through books, e-books, and the ASU GIS Data Repository. Information is also presented on self-paced training available to ASU Researchers and where one can learn to use a Geographic Information System.

Information about the resources highlighted in the exhibit can be found online on the companion LibGuide.  For further information, please contact Roger Knouff, Maps/GIS Librarian.

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Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes (Podcast)

January 31, 2012 · All locations, podcasts, Tempe campus · (No comments)

Event promo ImageOn February 14, 2012 Arizona celebrates 100 years of statehood. ASU School of Theatre and Film
presents the play Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes as part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series  beginning February 10 at 7:30 in the Lyceum Theatre.

Director Pamela Sterling, professor at the School of Theatre and Film, joins Host Fred McIlvain to talk about the play and how it was put together. Joining them is Curatorial Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace to talk about the tie-in exhibit, Tell Your Story, in the Hayden Library Rotunda on the ASU Tempe campus. Karrie also talks about the archival images used in the play.

 
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Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes tells the most poetic, comedic and iconic stories that were unearthed over the past year by a dedicated team of ASU theatre students the stories were culled from thousands of archival sources as well as interviews with contemporary Arizonans including a group of centenarians from the Pioneer Village in Prescott and the students’ friends, neighbors and relatives.

The stories were woven into the new play, which is part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series and is an official selection of the Arizona Centennial Commemoration Project.  People who will be pictured in Untold/Unsung include: Lozen, Apache warrior; Soto Vasquez, founder of Teatro Carmen in Tucson; Elizabeth Hudson Smith an African American woman who independently owned and operated a hotel in Wickenburg; George W. Parsons, lawyer, banker, and citizen of Tombstone who had a bird’s eye view of the gunfight at the OK Corral; and Borislav Bogdanovich, artist and relative of film director Peter Bogdonavich.

Students have established a a Facebook Page where people can learn more about the state’s colorful figures, and a video clip series, Arizona 100 Stories, where students recount the stories they have uncovered during their research. Pre-show activities include Living Statues that come to life to import the stories of Arizonans.

Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes
Where: Lyceum Theatre, 901. S. Forest Mall, ASU Tempe campus.
When: Feb. 10- 11, 16-18 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb 12 and19 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $8–$16; Seniors, ASU faculty, staff and students receive special rates. Special discounts for groups available.
Public Contact: Herberger Institute box office, 480.965.6447
School of Theatre and Film. 480.965.5337
Info and Online Tickets

Tell Your Story Exhibit
Where: Hayden Library Rotunda (Lower Concourse)
When: February 6 – May 2012

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Pamela Sterling and Karrie Porter Brace
Episode 117
Running Time: 16:53

ASU Libraries Celebrates Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon

January 25, 2012 · Architecture Library, Hayden Library, Music Library, Noble Library · (No comments)

ASU Libraries and the Confucius Institute are sponsoring two events in celebration of Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon.

The first is an exhibition in Hayden Library. The exhibition highlights the role of the dragon in Chinese culture, the importance of the New Year’s celebration which begins the Spring Festival, and describes the Lantern Festival which closes the Spring Festival.

This exhibition is located on the lower concourse/entrance level of Hayden Library, just outside of the library instruction room C41, and will be on display through February 7th.

Second, ASU Libraries and the Confucius Institute are sponsoring the screening of Shanghai Park (with English subtitles), on Friday January 27 at 12:30 in the Memorial Union, Pima Room 230. University Librarian Sherrie Schmidt and the ASU Confucius Institute Director Dr. Madeline Spring will give a brief welcome.

Shanghai Park is subtly and deeply moving, and honestly captures the transitional lives of urban 20-something college graduates, already nostalgic and unsure of the road ahead. Immediately after the screening the ASU Confucius Institute, the School of International Literature and Culture, and the Chinese Flagship Program are sponsoring the ASU Chinese New Year Celebration in the Memorial Ventena Ballroom. All are welcome to attend.

Fletcher Library Exhibit: Expressing Human Rights: All People Free & Equal

January 19, 2012 · West campus · (No comments)

Exhibit: Expressing Human Rights: All People Free & Equal: An Exhibition

Location:  Fletcher Library, West campus

Available:  January 20-March 16, 2012

Exhibition Mission: The Cultural Arts Coalition presents artwork by local artists; youth in detention, in rehabilitation, and on probation; and South Mountain High School students as a means to explore and inquire about rights.


Those featured organizations:

  1. “The Thoughtful Warrior” program @ Lower Buckeye & Estrella jails with male and female juveniles, Project Director Melanie Ohm
  2. “Release the Fear” for juveniles in Maricopa county detention sites facilitated by Robert Miley
  3. Las Artes de Maricopa @ the Y, for disadvantaged youth age 16-21, struggling to overcome difficult circumstances, facilitated by Martin Moreno
  4. ANYTOWN youth camps creative reflection programming, Director Deanie Wlodek @ the Y.

The United Nations defines human rights as “… rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.”

What do these rights mean to a young person facing the criminal justice system? What is security when incarcerated? Freedom when on probation? Or the right to privacy when in rehabilitation? This exhibition of work by youth and teaching artists challenges us to come to a deeper understanding of the 30 Universal Human Rights (www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a29), and in particular Article 29, which describes our responsibility to protect the rights and freedoms of all.

People may create conditions in their lives that diminish their CIVIL rights, but they still have rights because they are HUMAN. Everyone has rights.

This is the third year the Cultural Arts Coalition has mounted an exhibition that spans a two month period at Fletcher Library, Arizona State University West campus. This kind of collaboration and honoring of our youth and the journeys they are on to make well informed decisions that benefit self and community members could not occur without the support of the Fletcher Library Staff: Dennis Isbell, Director, and Margaret Rodriquez, administrative staff member. We are very thankful for their support of these youth and the facilitators who assist them.

The Fletcher Library will host reception for all 125 participating youth on Friday, March 2, from 0930-11:00. Martin Moreno, 2011 Governor’s Artist award winner will be the key note speaker.

Co-curators: Judy Butzine (jhb6@mindspring.com; (602) 375-9553 ) and Melanie Ohm (Melanie@conceptsconsultinggroup.com)

Elusive Radiance: The Prints of Olivia Timmons on Exhibit at Polytechnic Library

December 16, 2011 · Polytechnic campus · (No comments)

Elusive Radiance - Olivia TimmonsExhibit: “Elusive Radiance: The Prints of Olivia Timmons”

Artist: Olivia Timmons

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: November 12, 2011 – February 11, 2012 during normal library hours

Description: Printmaker Olivia Timmons began her exploration of the printmaking medium at the California College of Arts in Oakland and San Francisco where she received her BFA in 2002. She obtained her MFA from ASU’s Herberger Institute of Design in 2009. Her current body of work deals with social, political, environmental, and physical issues concerning the planet today. She uses creatures of light in contrast with the deep and murky oceanic atmosphere, as a metaphor for one of the most prominent concerns of humanity: the sustainability of natural resources and the consequence of human actions on the world.

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