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One of the most unexpected collections in the Audio-Visual Archive is the Blair Dean Utah Natural Bodybuilding Video Collection (A0077), http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99673/. Featured above are Paula Kid and Ron Lee Kid competing in the 1983 Utah Bodybuilding Championships.Over the course of a long career promoting drug...

Brady Nelson, a junior who’s majoring in economics and minoring in business, stands at the library security desk, smiling and greeting patrons. He’s not the sort of person who you’d expect to be in security – hovering to ensure that books aren’t stolen and that...

Her name is Leslie Felder. She arrives with three large bags: her school backpack, the diaper bag, and the bag that contains water bottles, changes of clothes, favorite toys, cheerios…  She also has her two young children, Stanley (three years-old) and Leora (15 months) in...

Preghiera alla Vergine… Modena: Il Bulino edizioni d’arte, 2007Facsimile. This illuminated manuscript belonged a young woman of the Veronese aristocracy. Produced on vellum in the second half of the thirteenth century, it is illustrated throughout with miniatures and consists of forty-two folios, or eighty-four pages. The...

Special Treatments Illuminations from the Wisdom VolumeThe Utah Calligraphic Artists guild is pleased to host an evening lecture with Diane von Arx, one of three American calligraphers invited to be part of the artistic team for the St. John’s Bible project.Thursday May 5, 2016 7PM Utah Cultural Celebration...

The end of the spring semester is coming and, for many of our students interested in architecture, this means it is crunch time for submitting applications. Both undergraduate and potential graduate students are doing the difficult work of drawing together a portfolio for entrance into...

The Willem Johan Kolff papers (http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv39526) contain materials that record the many artificial organ projects, from early dialysis to the first artificial heart implant, as well as the personal life of one of the world's most respected pioneering doctors.Dr. Willem Johan Kolff has been an...

“You oceans both, I close with you, We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why, These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.”WHITMAN CROSSHATCH… Walt Whitman (1819-1892) East Hampton, NY: 2015From the artist’s statement: “both a hunt for, and a despair of, meaning. The...