#Staff Pick of the Week

[uwmspeccoll]

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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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[noctilu-uca]

"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 !!

[rockislandadultreads]

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.

[stylishanachronism]

Hi, I’ve been reading through your Pillars posts and I really love your characters and how beautifully they fit into the POE world! Did you ever share pictures of them anywhere? I know it sounds funny but I like to imagine people’s characters as close to correct as I can. I hope you’re having a nice day!

You are incredibly sweet to say so, and I am enormously flattered you think my characters fit into Eora! There is definitely art of Alys, since I painted some of it (.......not that it can be described as finished but like, y’know. It was good enough to mod in to Deadfire.), and there is probably art of everyone else, since I also painted a lot of that, though I will have to go find it and I am currently dying the death of a thousand crunchies (it took me a week to respond to you, because I am just That Tired, holy shit), so your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to remind me I was going to look for it in, oh, let’s say two weeks, that should give me enough time to recover.

In the meantime, the entire joke about Alys is I managed to put together a game sprite that I could not for the life of me tell apart from Aloth’s, which was both hilarious and a nightmare, so they’re basically twins now, I don’t make the rules, if that helps you envision her at all.

[angiestown]

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

[tequil-oneal]

Airmaxx🎤 (@nike2times) LaLaBluZa live performance

📍Columbia,SC

[autistic-shaiapouf]

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

[risingsunresistance]

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 !

[animblog]

Ghost Dogs -- 2021 Joe Cappa 10:45

[entropys]

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

[uwmspeccoll]

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 

[pepprs]

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

[neonqueerautumn]

I just...miss my job okay...

[thedreadvampy]

aaaaaaaaaaa work is so overwhelming just now I feel like my brain may explode

[moredifferentthanusual]

wait im so confused. people in the notes were acting like it was bad for the doctors to discuss your case in the room? its a shared room and thats where the patient is, obviously they discuss it there. do usians not have shared hospital rooms? do their doctors not talk to them about their health? do they drag the patients out of bed to a consultation room? huh?

Thread from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez on her experience in a hospital in Cuba

[lesbianonna]

omg why does my father need to know everything i do