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Art Market 2022 – I’ll be one of your vendors!

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Hi all,

I hope you’re well.

This is not library related, unless you want it to be in your heart or your heart-shaped glasses. I know it is in mine. As such, I am posting as a regular but very cool person with underground access to the Lowdown, and not as your Con Library Creature of the Night.

Yours truly will be one of the vendors in this year’s Art Market, this Saturday, December 10th, from 10am to 5pm in Studio OC, at The Hotel At Oberlin.

I’d like to invite you all to come wave at me (in the daytime, too, whaaaaat?)(don’t worry, my fangs remain recessed under sunlight), visit the Market and get yourself or your loved ones some artsy gifts for the holidays, or just because. There will be and array of vendors selling all sorts of things, ranging from art prints to jewelry. Come support everyone if you don’t like my things. You’re wrong, but you’re welcome to join us anyway. We love community.

I’ll be selling a series of block prints, some digital illustrations, *maybe* some handmade inked pieces (these are currently in crisis-mode)(the prints… not the print maker… or so she says), and a few stickers of various sizes.

Don’t want to get up early, get dressed, and come to Studio OC to find you don’t like anything? Lucky for you, I am a Circulation folk at the core, and I live to make things accessible for you. Here’s a link to GSlides with images of what you can expect to find on my table, with pricing and other info. While I can’t make promises where the digillustrations are concerned, second and third runs can be borne out of the blocks should you be unable to attend Art Market. As my people say: “pide, que hay”.

@ngn.6071 on IG.

See you there! I’ll be the one in the pink glasses holding her eyes open with toothpicks, like a sick Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Okay. I’m done. Your regular library programming will now resume.

Best,

Natalie Gutiérrez-Negrón

Conference Visit this Saturday

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On Saturday September 17th the 24th Annual Conference of the Arts & Crafts Movement will be visiting the Terrell Letterpress Studio and Special Collections. The Conference is mainly in Cleveland, but will be visiting Oberlin, to see the AMAM, First Church, and us on Saturday. A group of roughly 50 guests will be arriving around 11am, and be touring the two locations until around noon. We wanted to make sure staff working were aware of why there would be so many people around.

We will have a variety of books relating to the Arts & Crafts Movement displayed in Special Collections, and Ed will demonstrate the new Albion press in the Letterpress Studio.

Thanks!

Gena

LOL Library Campaign

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Be part of a new poster campaign to promote the libraries.  lol = Love Oberlin Libraries!  Send me a selfie/photo (in a womb chair, next to some books, hugging reading girl?) and a brief quote about what you love about Oberlin Libraries and you can be a poster person!

Please encourage students, faculty, and community members to participate too.

Thanks,

Valerie

Archives collection items in AMAM exhibit

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The Allen Art Museum borrowed two photo albums and a journal kept by a student in an ecology class in 1915 for the current exhibit “Objects of Encounter: American Myths of Place.” The exhibit will be up until December 23.

Enid Bancroft Sutton was in the first ecology trip out west for credit with Professor Lynds Jones. He was one of the first professors in the U.S. to offer ecology and ornithology classes. Jones hired Native Americans from the Quileute tribe to bring the group to rocky islets in Northwest Washington to study bird nesting sites. The albums contain many photos of tribal members.

The students were trained to make detailed observations of flora, fauna,  geographical features and climatic conditions to describe ecological zones they encountered on the long trip, in photographs and journals. For more description of the collection materials see the finding guide to the Enid Sutton Swan collection from our home page.