Registration for this event is currently full, but please look forward to future events with the Rare Books department. There is a word that describes a person who loves to read, admire and collect books. That word is bibliophile, and bibliophiles have existed since antiquity...
Join the University of Utah and the Tanner Humanities Center for the latest Author Meets Reader series, featuring Joy Harjo -- an internationally renowned performer, inspiring woman, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, who is currently serving her second term as the 23rd US...
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Edward Curtis photographic collection will be on view for an exclusive showcase in the Rare Books Classroom on Thursday, November 18 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM. Space will be limited to 40 people and reservations will be...
My wide hips raised two warriors from sweat & clay, blood sonata & birth cry. I said anger & avarice, & they called themselves Cain & Abel. I said gold, & they opened up the earth. I said love, & they ventured east & west, south & north. I said evil, &...
Ann Montanaro Staples, director of the Movable Book Society, and Vice Chair of Friends of the Library Board will discuss the history of movable books and how complex paper engineering educates and entertains readers....
Idaho State University Ph.D candidate, Cana Itchuaqiyaq, stands in awe of Jessica Spring's "Parts Unknown" Last week Paula Jull, bookmaker and Idaho State University Professor Emeritus in Visual Communication and Graphic Design, met up with her former student Cana Itchuaqiyaq to look at books by...
"The institutes for new apparatuses" While Trodding Clifton Meador Boone, NC: Clifton Meador, Appalachian State University, 2016 N7433.4 M43 W45 2016 From the artist’s statement: “During a residency in the Truukimuseuum (a printing history museum in Tartu, Estonia…I became interested in the narratives embedded in Soviet-period photo books. Many of...
Tuesday, February 12 6:00PM Alta Club 100 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah A Rare Book Rogue in Texas: The Crimes and Misdemeanors of Johnny Jenkins In 1975, John Jenkins engineered the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century – the purchase of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare...
Join performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña with cameos by Balitronica Gómez for a showcase of his latest solo work, The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist, a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. With his performance troupe La Pocha Nostra, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art...