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uwmspeccoll · 5 months ago

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Cannupa Hanska Luger, New Myth, Future Technologies, 2021

Dana Claxton, Headdress-Jeneen, 2018

Teresa Baker, Hidatsa Red, 2022

Raven Chacon, For Zitkala Sa Series, 2019

Caroline Monnet, Echoes from a near future, 2022

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Calling Sky World), 2021

Anna Tsouhlarakis, The Native Guide Project, 2019

Meryl McMaster, Harbourage for a Song, 2019

Marie Watt, Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward), 2021

Staff Pick of the Week

An Indigenous Present proposes that a book can be a space for community engagement through the transcultural gathering of more than sixty contemporary Indigenous and Native artists. Published by BIG NDN Press and Delmonico Books in 2023, An Indigenous Present was conceived of and edited by Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) over the course of nearly two decades.

In Gibson’s own words, “An Indigenous Present celebrates the work of visual artists, musicians, poets, choreographers, designers, filmmakers, performance artists, architects, collectives, and writers whose work offers fresh starting lines for Native and Indigenous art. But the book does not attempt comprehensiveness. Rather, those included here are makers I admire, have collaborated with or been inspired by, and who’ve challenged my thinking. . . . These artists and what they make will guide us to Indigenous futurities authored by us in unabashedly Indigenous ways.”

An Indigenous Present features over 400 pages of color photographs, poetry, essays, and interviews resulting in a stunning visual experience for readers and a shift towards more inclusive art systems. The front cover art shown here is by Canadian artist Caroline Monnet entitled Indigenous Represent.

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#Staff Pick of the Week #staff picks #an indigenous present #jeffrey gibson #BIG NDN Press #delmonico books #indigenous art #contemporary art #caroline monnet #Native Americans #Native American art #Native American artists #Native American Literature Collection #Jenna

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noctilu-uca · 2 months ago

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"Curse ya~"

ITS MY BIRTHDAY GUYS !!!! WAOAOOWW !!

went out with some friends ~ about to go out tomorrow as well, pretty exciting !!

I drew sasara because we share the same birth month ! ,,,barely. We're both on the curb of barely even hitting/exiting october. Im on the 1st ! Hes on the 31st ! Pretty fun !! this was fun to draw, not quite a sketch but not quite a finished piece. A thing. If you will

Heres a clear picture of it !!

#His head looks a little big but i think its the angle i took a picture at but idgaf anymore guys #I had to go to my brothers room and use his leds for that first pick surprise surprise the light was set to GREEN and csme out yellow #Looks cool though #Having a good dinner for today ~ might post it later if it looks good enough #Pork chashu #Incase i dont post it know its pork chashu #Very excited #My friend was laughing at the fact i made birthday art for myself #It was fun !! Dont diss !!!#I didnt take the boba picture btw #My camera quality isnt that good..#So much to do this week... So many assignments and so many hang outs #If i dont make it by the end of this week host a funeral and bury me with a samatoki body pillow #JOKE but also my mom has a history of buying me body pillows for my birthday.... i never ask for them #And she does it anyway #Its really funny actually but im so scared what if she does it again this year #Wish me luck soldiers #Might draw nrc staff later i lovr them #BYYEE !!!#hypmic #hypnosis mic #hypnosis microphone #sasara nurude #Noctiart #Noctifan #These tags are crazy so #Luca talks #OK BYE

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rockislandadultreads · 8 months ago

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Staff Favorites for National Library Week!

Enjoy a handful of staff favorites as we celebrate National Library Week!

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

February 1862. The Civil War has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest. Bending the historical truth, this story finds Willie Lincoln in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state - called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo - a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. While Joe tries to help heal his mother, she slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared and soon sets out with his trusted friends to get some answers of his own.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children and their enigmatic caretaker, Arthur Parnassus, reside. As Arthur and Linus grow closer and long-held secrets are exposed, Linus must make a life-changing choice.

This is the first volume in "The House in the Cerulean Sea" series.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down, challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Inheriting a book of fairytales, Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family, and their past.

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angiestown · 6 months ago

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not looking forward to potentially working 12-15 days in a row at my supposedly part time job

#the guy who works closing is on holiday #and the girl who was going to cover most of his shift's husband died right as he left #and there aren't enough staff with two gone to cover them all without me so I'm helping with that #and a bit before he gets back one of the cake decorators is going on holiday #and just as all this is happening the other decorator who always calls in sick and hardly gets anything done during the week #and doesn't seem to get why everyone is always mad at her finally quit #so I'm the only decorator for a while and the new girl is NOWHERE NEAR being able to handle a shift alone yet #tbh I'd kinda been secretly wishing she would quit for a long time now but could ya have picked a better time 😑#I don't wanna think it's malicious but I've been told she doesn't like me and I don't doubt it with how all her sick days conveniently #landed on days where I'd be the only one who could cover or I'd be forced to work alone on a weekend

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tequil-oneal · 1 year ago

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Airmaxx🎤 (@nike2times) LaLaBluZa live performance

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autistic-shaiapouf · 9 months ago

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Beginning to really wonder how much of my financial concern is manufactured and handed to me as opposed to something I'm genuinely concerned by

#bc like. i'm getting by just fine. i don't have anything to be reasonably worried about #but also when i was a kid my father would break down my mother's paycheck and basically explain how broke we were #and that May Have Affected Me Somewhat #as well as just. the way you consistently see the advice to just save! don't get takeout! necessities! and i'm not intent on living like #a monk nor am i intent on being on that grindset for financial gain #it's like i don't intrinsically care but i have so many messages given to me about how i need to care a lot and it puts me in a weird spot #i am simultaneously standing still and moving at mach speeds #i mean right now i just need a safety net while in between jobs; after that i need to save up to move out of state bc the uh #political situation and upcoming presidential election don't seem very sustainable for someone like me anymore #they weren't to begin with but i don't wanna stick around to see how bad it's gonna get #but it's like. okay and then what? save for what? going back to school i guess? idk #i feel like i keep asking myself what i'm trying to accomplish and keep trying to force myself to have answers #here and now when i have to be okay with taking things one step at a time instead of having everything here and now #it's simultaneously fine and terrible and i am holding two conflicting yet equal truths #i feel i may have a clearer head once i leave my current job. i'm trying to look but nothing feels appealing given how #burnt out i already feel. i dread going back into my workplace and i fear it's showing to the patients and i don't want that #i want a month off to rediscover who i am as a person outside of getting yelled at in retail and then pick something back up #could be feasible. genuinely could be. i need to sort out the health insurance aspect but. that's lowkey the plan?#to construct a financial safety net and then slam on the breaks for a while; see if i can strike up a deal with the staff about me #coming in for specific tasks bc we already know i'm quick and efficient with the inventory so i do have a little leverage #you know what. this is getting some of it off my chest and i'm starting to feel confident again lmao #i won't be doing weekends starting either next week or the week after so that's a start! i just think i want everything done right now #bc i'm afraid i won't have the chance again but i will. i definitely will #i just need to let myself get to that point; it's just the immense drain from the register work and the Everything that comes with retail #also having to accept that it's okay to leave this; there's not something wrong with me like. ''not being able to handle it'' or w/e #no mindfulness or detachment could've saved me; it was shit and i'm hitting the bricks and that's all there is to it #i've been thinking a lot about it all lately bc it's what's most prominent in my life rn of course #idk. pondering. introspecting. as i am wont to do #anyways if you've read all this you're a real mvp and i am kissing you on the hand #shai speaks

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risingsunresistance · 2 years ago

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been getting back into mother 3 after All That and every time i see the sunflower field im like. whoa. that's so neat. i am Not overthinking it !

#i am just making this post to ramble about the sunflower thing again kjfhdg #it's almost been a whole year. i was in the middle of replaying mother 3 last june #i was at the sunflower field scene and decided to stop playing for the night #and that is the same night ''so long nerds'' was uploaded #not to be dramatic or cliche or whatever but. feels very ''on purpose'' ya know #destiny or whatever #the game was a huuuuuuge turning point for me in coping with life and death which i was. Very Bad at before!#and im sure you can tell i still am *(@&*(&*%(&^*#i havent been able to touch the game since but im getting better at it. been watching some videos n stuff about it #i still havent picked it back up tho. idk if i can sit through that cutscene again #i already kinda associated techno with sunflowers bc of the whole rising sun stuff. the staff being a sunflower #but the fact that i was in the middle of that part of mother 3 made that association so much worse #now they're just like. the death object for me. remembrance flowers. idk actual flower meanings but that's what they are to me now #idk if anyone remembers this post but like a week or two after his death my aunt tried growing a sunflower #it was unrelated to me and that whole thing. just another coincidence #she passed this week. so the sunflowers are really back on my mind rn #that's why i turned off the inbox was bc i really didnt know what to do after that #her whole side of the family died this past year #i hate to vent or whatever but i feel like if i dont mention it i'll explode so i've buried this under many other tags #congrats if you read this far i just wanted to have that out there i guess bc i've talked about her a lot #the cats are fine if you remember them. orangey has a home and my uncle is watching thomas #grief #grief cw #i dont remember what ppl tag that as #chat #i'll probably delete this later but im also gonna reblog all the cats n stuff again bc i just want ppl to see them

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animblog · 1 year ago

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Ghost Dogs -- 2021 Joe Cappa 10:45

#Ghost Dogs #Joe Cappa #2021 #vimeo staff picks #short of the week #sundance #oiaf #dog #ghost #horror #hand drawn #2d #humor #house #suburban #Youtube #animation

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entropys · 1 year ago

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:-) things are getting better september truly is a month of new beginnings

#yesterday i went out to the grocery store late at night and bought so much yogurt i think that was my turning point i am forever changed #and today i went to the mall with my mom and bought myself a pair of sunglasses that i really wanted for so long #and the guy that works there recognized me 😭😭😭😭#i went there before to buy my cousin a graduation gift and honestly i came back bc i wanted the same ones i got for her they’re so cool #anyway the staff recognized me and gave me a special discount bc im a ‘regular’ even tho this is only my second time buying from them 🥹🥹#that was so nice of him bc if it wasnt for that dicount i probably wouldnt have bought the sunglasses bc theyre a bit pricey for my budget #anyway i got them 🥹 so im feeling a bit better #also! i bought myself a little rice cooker for one serving so i don’t starve and stop ordering so much food that i don’t have money for #i think this month is spending on myself month #and tomorrow im going out to celebrate my friend’s birthday 🥰🥰 we’re going to a bakery then to a museum and im bringing my camera with me <3 #recently i’ve fixed my 10 year old camera and its so perfect i love it so much i found a manual online and im gonna learn how to properly #use all the effects and settings it has #i bought it with my mom in 2013 and honestly we picked the best design ever it looks so coooool god i love my little camera im taking it #everywhere with me 🥹💛💛#anyway .. the last episode of uncanny counter 2 aired today 🥲🥲🥲 im gonna make myself some rice in my new rice cooker and watch it 🫶#then i’ll take a warm shower and finish off my friends bday gift #im making them a crochet cat keychain i hope it comes out well #alsoooo LETTERS WITH NOTES OUT TOMORROW im soooo excited i love you september #anyway i came here to talk about my week bc it was nice :-) i hope everyone’s september is going well too <3

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sharkneto · 1 year ago

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If I could block discourse over the new Tumblr web UI I would. I do not care, I do not care, I am so tired of seeing the vitriol and complaints about it

#the problem is i like following some of the tumblr staff and the official tumblr blogs for info on what all theyre up to #so i cannot escape all the complaining unless i stop doing that #but they are my tumblr newspaper #if there's an accessibility thing about the change other than the usual Tumblr Hates Change then go on trying to get them to change it back #but most of what ive seen is people just *really* mad they changed it #like we'd get mad when staff changed the blue but i feel like everyone got over it after a week or so #its been *weeks* now tho #like it's not going to change back staff has been very clear about that #gotta pick your battles guys - there's other changes on tumblr that are more worth time and effort #and part of this is not just I'm tired of skimming through complaints - some of y'all are super nasty #like be mad at staff if you want but that's also still a real human being on the other end who has to read that mean shit #sending hate mail does not get your opinions or needs hear louder or better #dl #i am the ben affleck smoking jpg about this

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uwmspeccoll · 5 months ago

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Staff Pick of the Week

Décoration moderne dans l'intérieur by Henry Delacroix (1907-1974) was published in Paris by S. de Bonadona, likely around 1935. Delacroix studied architecture at the National School of Decorative Arts of Paris joining his father’s architectural firm upon graduation. He made a name for himself reconstructing French cities after World War II, most notably City of 4000 in La Courneuve.

Capturing Delacroix’s penchant for modern art deco inspired interiors, Décoration moderne dans l'intérieur is a portfolio of the genre’s luminaries. The publication contains forty-eight vibrant pochoir (stencil coloring) printed plates of designs by Francis Jourdain, Pierre Chareau, Georges Djo-Bourgeois, and the author, Henry Delacroix himself. He also included a seemingly heartfelt introduction that loosely translates to the idea of a man’s physical and spiritual needs being met through the luxury of a home that can facilitate the rest needed to nurture his imagination.

Delacroix produced several portfolios of this kind showcasing ideas for an array of architectural settings and including painterly accessories inspired by Chagall and Matisse. A delight for anyone interested in interior design or color theory! Our copy of Décoration moderne dans l'intérieur is part of a gift from the estate of our dear friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Decorative Sunday #Staff Pick of the Week #staff picks #henry delacroix #decoration moderne dans l'interieur #national school of decorative arts of paris #pochoir #s. de bonadona #art deco #dennis bayuzick #interior design #decorative plates #decorative arts

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pepprs · 2 years ago

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not to keep liveblogging the retreat but it’s over now (it has been for most of the day). i cried so much today and it was amazing. im so sad and so happy and so relieved and so tired and so proud