I am an African American artist. Transforming Hate is essentially an eight-year meditation on a beautiful art piece that I made from white supremacist books. As I folded origami cranes from pages of hateful texts, I set aside my feelings about what I read. Drawn...
“Those colours are simple which belong to the elements, fire, air, water and earth. For air and water are naturally white in themselves, while fire and the sun are golden. The earth is also naturally white, but seems coloured because it is dyed. This becomes...
cover art by Matt Saunders “…its no surprise If the wolf takes many a prize. I say the wolf because not all wolves are the same. There are those of courteous fame, No noise or bile or rage, But reserved, compliant, and sage, Who will trail a girl well bred All the way...
Rare Books is pleased to announce the use of one of our Karl Bodmer aquatints as an image for an installation at the Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The image is part of an installation spanning three rooms. The Rare Books...
Rich in imagery and fantastical in nature, La Trama Celeste by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Para Las Seis Cuerdas by Jorge Luis Borges are the two newest additions to the Rare Books Latin American collection. Every country has a history – that is certain. If we...
November 19, 2016, marked the American Library Association’s 5th annual International Game Day. But you can celebrate it every day at Marriott Library! We began building our video game collection in March 2016 and currently have 225 games available to play on seven gaming systems, with...
In the wake of Thanksgiving and in anticipation of the winter holidays to come, many of us find our thoughts turning to all the wonderful foods of the season. If you're already hungry, visit the Audio-Visual Archive in Special Collections and find a mouthwatering appetizer...
For, given man, by birth, by education, Imago Dei who forgot his station, The self-made maker who himself unmakes, The only creature ever made who fakes, With no more nature in his loving smile Than in his theories of a natural style, What but tall tales, the luck of verbal playing, Can...
“My sakes alive — the turkey is burnt on one side, and the kettles have biled over so the pies I put to warm are all ashes!” Aunt Jo’s Scrap-bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882 First edition PS1017 A8 1882 “Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag” is...
“Look at me! I’m the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of...