Celebrate quietly in the Fine Arts Library, or we’ll call the “Quiet Enforcers”.

In conjunction with the Alden Library 40th Anniversary series of events, the Frederick and Kazuko Harris Art Library offers this selection of work by a few of our noted alumni.

On view in the 1968 Room (adjacent to Fine Arts), through fall quarter, 2009.

As part of the events planned for the Ohio Fellows Reunion on September 19th and Alden Library’s 40th Anniversary Celebration, the Frederick & Kazuko Harris Fine Arts Library is offering an exhibit of Yao Ceremonial Artifacts Collection.

An opening reception will be held September 19th from 3:30 to 5pm.

The exhibit will be on view in the Fine Arts Reading Room through fall quarter, 2009.

Enjoy these beautifully handmade books, each fascinating to behold: 141 items from 12 countries , and they are going to travel to 10 countries!

The entire show fits into one small box and ships inexpensively.

On view in the Fine Arts gallery space through September 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carolyn Cole will be discussing her career during a visit to Ohio University.

She is speaking Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. in 135 Walter Hall.

The event is sponsored by the student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association Ohio University (NPPAOU) and the School of Visual Communication. It is free and open to the public. There will be posters featuring her work for sale.

Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent fifteen years covering national and international news. Her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

Cole is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for war photography from the Overseas Press Club of America for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the siege of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2002). She has earned four World Press photo awards and was named newspaper photographer of the year four times.

She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas. Cole is a former Ohio University graduate student.

Herman Leonard, a 1947 BFA graduate and world-renowned photographer whose images captured the history and movement of jazz, will speak at Ohio University’s two under-graduate commencement ceremonies this year.

As an undergrad, Mr. Leonard was a photographer, and eventually photo editor for the Athena Yearbook.

His yearbooks and a selection of period photography equipment are on view in the Fine Arts Library, Alden, 3rd floor, through the summer.

An exhibit of the Yao Collection is now on view at the Multicultural Center Gallery in Baker Center. The Opening Reception will take place during Ohio University’s International Week, on Thursday, May 14th, from 5 to 7pm.

A gift from Frederick Harris (Hon. PhD, 1997) and collecting partners Robert Fallon (BA, 1969), and Ms. Nguyen Thi Diu, this one-of-a-kind cultural record supports the scholarly research and teaching needs of various programs and departments campus-wide. With approximately 2000 pieces of ceremonial and temple art from the north of Viet Nam, this collection is likely the largest of it’s kind.

Later in 2009, a significant portion of the collection will be available online via ARTstor, an online image database. Find a link to ARTstor in Alice, find the Yao page with an informative slide show here.

A Designer’s ABC Primer makes reference to both the classic didactic ABC books and to the L’abecedaire of Gilles Deleuze, indicating a general theme but not a specific format.

Using the collection of the Frederick and Kazuko Harris Art Library as a primary research tool, the students of the Graphic Design Area class of 2010 were given an assignment to randomly browse the library stacks in order to find interesting professional designers or design firms with names beginning from A to Z. Each student’s list of designers was documented in both written and visual form. When the list was complete, each student designed and produced a single copy full color hand-bound book.

The books produced include lists of individual designers, design firms, typographers and corporate branding. These books will be on view in the Fine Arts gallery space through spring quarter 2009, with an opening reception April 8th, from 4 to 5:30pm.

As part of the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Institute of the African Child, part of Ohio University’s Center for International Studies, artist Betty LaDuke will exhibit her paintings at Alden Library, Fine Arts gallery space, from March 3rd through April 20, 2009.

“An upbeat, contemporary view of African life emerges in LaDuke’s paintings, drawings and etchings. Inspired by ten years of travel in Africa, her images reflect war zone life and camps for internally displaced people. The exhibit depicts survival conditions in the camps, as well as people’s spirit of community, their resilience and their dreams of returning home.”

For more information on the artist, visit her web site:
www.bettyladuke.com

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Sponsored by People for Peace and Justice, and the Frederick & Kazuko Harris Art Library.

People for Peace & Justice is an organization of Athens area residents who believe there are genuine alternatives to war as well as ways to promote justice and accord between people both here and abroad.

This exhibit provides a glimpse into the Iranian culture, by way of a selection of antique and contemporary cultural objects. On view in the Art Library through Winter Quarter, 2009.