Brant Gallery would like to invite you to Garden Lab 2012:
Exhibition Dates: Spring 2012
Opening Reception Party: Thursday, January 26, 6:30 – 7:30pm

Garden Lab is an installation with a theme of conversations in art, design, food and community with a focus on sustainability and interaction.  Visiting artists present a series of workshops that encourage students and the community to participate through dialogue and creation.

The Library has created a subject guide for the Garden Lab that recommends websites, books, and articles for further exploration.  Take a look:

Garden Lab Library

For our December in-library exhibit we’ve thrown content out the window.  We’re featuring books that are white and silver.  Books are objects and they’re pretty and sometimes they’re even prettier when you see them en masse.

So if you need to decompress from final projects and holiday preparation, stop by and enjoy. We promise we’ll give you something thought-provoking next semester.

Mango’s online language learning tools  include a variety of resources to help patrons of all kinds learn practical conversation skills for the world’s most popular languages. With convenient remote access, a fun and engaging format.

There are 37 languages to choose from including: Arabic, Cantonese, French, German, and even pirate.

To access Mango, go to the Library’s main page http://inside.massart.edu/library and find it listed under highlights.  From off-campus remember to login in using your webmail username and password.

Amusez-vous bien!

Futurefarmers is a group of artists and designers working together since 1995. Their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, artist in residency program and research interests. They are teachers, researchers, designers, gardeners, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems.

And they’re coming to MassArt!

•                 October 24^th 7:30 pm Visiting Artists Talk in the Pozen Center
•                 October 27^th time tbd Gallery Closing

Details: http://massart.edu/About_MassArt/Events_Calendar.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D96708804

Included in the exhibit is a reading room with materials from the Library about Futurefarmers, sustainability, and topics that have been an inspiration to Futurefarmers members. The Library is delighted to work with SIM on this very cool project.

If you can’t visit the exhibit and the reading room (or even if you can), definitely check out the digital bibliography:

http://sp.flo.org/massart/subjects/guide.php?subject=ff

To get more of a sense of what Futurefarmers is all about, take a look at this video of Futurefarmer member Michael Swaine talking about his project Free Mending Library.

And since the library is more than just videos and digital bibliographies, I’d also like to point out that on view in the Library is the Futurefarmer’s first artist’s book Soul/Sole Sermons.

Sole/Soul Sermons is a limited edition of 50 books published for the occasion of Futurefarmers’ exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Five custom inks are cast upon the pages of this book. Each ink is made of particulate matter [soot] collected from the streets of the five burroughs in New York City. For more information about Soul/Sole Sermons or to read excerpts of the text: http://www.futurefarmers.com/footnotes/book.html#1

Here are the details:

Vision Bound Unbound: The Drawings of Alireza Darvish

Opening Reception: 7 October  5:30-8pm     

Exhibition: 7 October – 29 November  

Ars Libri Ltd.

500 Harrison Avenue

Boston, MA 02118

Alireza Darvish is a contemporary Iranian artist currently living in Germany. Some twenty years ago, he began a series of finished watercolors and drawings exploring the metaphorical meanings of  the book in the modern world, particularly in the context of totalitarian politics. Darkly surreal, whimsical, and provocative, the series is a testimony of gratitude to the freedom and hope that books offer the imagination, and a commentary on the refuge they provide. The series now numbers more than eighty works, nearly all of which are included for sale in this exhibition.

A catalogue to accompany the exhibition will be published and available from Ars Libri for $25.  For more information, please email us: orders@arslibri.com or telephone us: 617 357-5212.

Jesse Winter Photography

Altered Books

Books and Ephemera on Display at the MassArt Library

 September 1, 2011 – September 31, 2011

Biography:

Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Spector’s work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. He has issued a number of artists’ books and editions since the mid-1970s, including, most recently, Time Square, a limited edition letterpress book hand altered by the artist and published in 2007 by Pyracantha Press and ABBA at Arizona State University in Tempe. Among his previous publications are Between the Sheets, a limited edition book of images and text published in 2004 by The Ink Shop Printmaking Center in Ithaca, NY, Details: closed to open, an artists’ book of photographic details from images in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, (List Art Gallery, Swarthmore College, 2001) and Beautiful Scenes: selections from the Cranbrook Archives (Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1998).

Spector was a co-founder of WhiteWalls, a magazine of writings by artists, in Chicago in 1978, and served as the publication’s editor until 1987.  Since then he has written extensively on topics in contemporary art and culture, and has contributed reviews and essays to a number of publications, including American Craft, Artforum, Art Issues, Art on Paper, Exposure, and New Art Examiner.  He is the author of The Book Maker’s Desire, critical essays on topics in contemporary art and artists’ books (Umbrella Editions, 1995), and numerous exhibition catalogue essays, including Conrad Bakker: untitled mail order catalogue (Creative Capital, Inc., 2002) and Dieter Roth (University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1999).

Spector’s most recent recognition is a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA Fellowship. In 1991 he was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and in 1982, 1985, and 1991 he received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards.  He is Dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dear MassArt Community,

Thank you for all your concerns about the library. The fire last night did not directly effect the library collection. The special collections room is safe and sound as are the artists’ books. A few offices are wet but everything seems to be OK.

XOXO,

MassArt Library

Dear MassArt Community:

Yesterday evening at approximately 5:45 pm, a fire broke out on the roof of the Tower building. The Boston Fire Department responded immediately. The damage was contained to the 13th floor and no one was injured. While there is minor water damage, all spaces in Tower are fully operational, including the library. Thank you to all those members of the MassArt community who so diligently managed the incident.

Kay Sloan
President

To the MassArt Community,

You may have come to visit our library lately and noticed a lot of blue tarps. Due to an ailing roof we have been having increased leakage on the 12th and 13th floor. We are in process of getting a new roof which is very exciting. This project should last through the summer. To be extra cautious the library is keeping the blue tarps on the mass of our collection. The books all still circulate, and you can still browse them. Because the blue tarp cuts the light off please use provided flashlights to browse the stacks. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and hope you will all understand.

xoxoxoxox

The Morton R. Godine Library

Mass College of Art

Water, water, everywhere….good books

Richard Misrach: On The Beach (Aperture, 2007)

Edward Ruscha Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (1968)

WGSN

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To access WSGN from off campus you must go through our MassArt library database page.

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Lewis Hyde will be at MassArt on Monday, March 28th to deliver the annual Hellerstein Lecture. He will be available to meet with MassArt students from 3:15 to 4 in Tower 535 and he will speak in the Trustees Room from 4:30 to 6. The lecture is open to MassArt students, faculty and staff.

A MacArthur Genius Award recipient in 1991, Lewis Hyde is now the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College, as well as Faculty Associate, Berkman Center on Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Professor Hyde is a critic of the erosion of the intellectual and artistic commons that has occurred in recent decades. Once artists and intellectuals were relatively free to use intellectual property which had entered the public domain and become part of the Commons, a shared cultural inheritance. Yet content producers in the entertainment and publishing industries have recently succeeded in lobbying for expansions of Copyright Law and have to come to claim virtually absolute intellectual property rights. The public finds itself in a vastly diminished and endangered Commons.

Lewis Hyde is the author of several books including Trickster Makes this World (1998); The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (2007);  and most recently Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership  (2010).

More information about him is available online:

Cartoon Review of  Common As Air by Ward Sutton

Lewis Hyde’s webpage at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Lewis Hyde’s webpage with links to writings and audio files

“A Republic of Letters,”  Robert Darnton’s New York Times Review of Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air

“Freedom To Teach: Claiming Educational Fair Use” by Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde will also join Paul Dobbs and Greg Wallace from MassArt; Jolene de Verges from MIT; Peter Suber from SPARC; and Peter Jaszi from American University at the workshop “Asserting Our Fair-Use Rights: The Other Side of the Copyright Coin,” a NERCOMP event, which will take place on Thursday, April 14 in Norwood, MA.