#uchicago archives

[uchicagoscrc]

Celebrate Women Astronomers Day with the Yerkes Observatory Records at SCRC! Check out the alt text for the names of the women in this photo from 1921, and learn more at Capturing the Stars.

[uchicagomagazine]

Chicagoans go about their business at the corner of State and Madison in 1959. Walgreens occupies the same site today, but many of the neon-signed shops and eateries have given way to retail chains. The Chicago Building on the far left is now a School of the Art Institute of Chicago residence hall. The historic McVickers Theater stands in the background, advertising Otto Preminger’s controversial film adaptation of Porgy and Bess (1959). In the early 21st century, an office building took its place.

Photography by Mildred LaDue Mead; UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-09933, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

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[porciaenjoyer]

i never used to be a girl with soo many tabs open but now i have. a website about ancient games + a search about ancient games + internet archive + wordhippo + genius lyrics + encyclopædia romana from penelope dot uchicago dot edu + [region-specific resource] + global mental health programs columbia university + someone's dissertation on phrenitis + ANOTHER wordhippo + organic chem video + tumblr ...............

[researchbuzz]

Jessica Stockholder, Creativity During Covid, Twitter, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, December 2, 2023

NEW RESOURCES University of Chicago: Jessica Stockholder Digital Archive Available on LUNA. “The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is excited to announce the digital archive of Jessica Stockholder, now available to the UChicago community and beyond on the VRC’s digital collections platform, LUNA. The Jessica Stockholder Archive is the first LUNA collection dedicated to a near-comprehensive overview…

[uchitabletop]

This is the "official" tumblr page for UChicago's Tabletop Tuesdays, a club that encompasses and fosters board game, trading card game, and ttrpg communities on campus! Our socials:

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#dice - yes I'm going to start reblogging pretty dice on here and you can't stop me

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[uchicagoadmissions]

UChicago Photo Archives Rejected Captions

“I volunteer as tribute”

[ouropharynx]

[weneverlearn]

Cool article about an amazing 1960s/70s video archival project. 

I first saw this as posted by Pat Ivers, she of the incredible “Nightclubbing” video project -- which if you don’t know about, you’d best check out if you’re into rare, original-era punk vids!! 

[joseluisbenavides]

Delving into shared Indigenous and Chicanx cultural histories, Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán was a 1977 art exhibition originally held at Harry S. Truman College. The exhibition featured Indigenous and Chicanx artists, organized by Movimiento Artístico Chicano (MARCh) & the Chicago Indian Artists’ Guild. Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán featured a total of 52 participating artists, lectures, poetry readings, and performances, with lead organizer Carlos Cumpián. Featured artists included Malu Alberro y Ortega, Loniel Poco, Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnic, Salvador Vega, Robin Whitespear, Joe Yazzie, and many more. The event poster was made by Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl.

This re-creation and celebration of the original exhibition includes images Truman College art lecturer, Jose Luis Benavides, gathered since 2019. His research into this little-documented Chicago history started with a grant from the Illinois Humanities, with presentations and screenings at local-Chicago art spaces Chuquimarca and Comfort Station in 2022. He was also awarded a “Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Faculty Research Fellowship” from The Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Consortium (SLCEC) to expand this research. 

With the support of the University of Chicago’s Public History Practicum, three graduate students, Mariah Bender, Teagan Harris, and Zi Yun Huang, created a digital archive of artworks related to Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán with special access to Carlos Cumpián’s private collection.

This Truman campus exhibition includes research materials of brochures, flyers, photographs, woodcut prints, graphics, and poetry chapbooks from some of the original artists involved in the 1977 exhibition. 

A special screening of the film, This is Indian Land: Sharon Okee-Chee’s Vision, will share the rich history of The American Indian Center in Chicago. Truman students and the community are invited to learn about the important cross-cultural solidarity work sustained by Chicanx and Indigenous elders in Chicago. 

Event Schedule April 10-12, 2023

Luncheon with Carlos Cumpián on Mon. April 10, at 12:30 pm (Larry McKeon Building Room 146/147).

Exhibition Opening on Mon. April 10 at 3:30 pm (Wilson Lobby). 

Screening of “This is Indian Land: Okee-Chee’s Vision” on Wed. April 12, at 3:30 pm (Novar Hall).

Zoom Panel with UChicago Public History Practicum students on Wed. April 12, at 7 pm 

(Zoom link: https://cccedu.zoom.us/j/81684305612).

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Chuquimarca is pleased to present a two event program:

Join us for a dialogue and presentation about the Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán exhibition (1977) with Carlos Cumpián, Sal Vega, & Dylan A.T. Miner, PhD. moderated by Jose Luis Benavides, online via Zoom on Tuesday, 09/28 at 7pm CST . Register for the Zoom link here : https://bit.ly/2X36CFq

Additionally, please join us the Friday before the talk, 09/24, for a special screening of This Is Indian Land, Okee-Chee's Vision by Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnick at Comfort Station in Logan Square. 

Screening: “This Is Indian Land, Okee-Chee's Vision” by Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnick

Date and Time: Friday, September 24, 2021, 7:00-8:00pm CST

Location: Comfort Station, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

“This Is Indian Land, Okee-Chee’s Vision” by Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnic is a 35 minute independent documentary using interviews and images by Okee-Chee with her collaborators to highlight her vision and contribution to their community at the American Indian Center and Chicago. Sharon Okee-Chee is a visual artist and filmmaker who originally participated in the Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán exhibition at Truman College in 1977. We are honored to screen this film as an addition to the Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán Exhibition (1977) discussion, developed by Jose Luis Benavides, to highlight her role within Chicago arts communities. This film was produced by Nancy Bechtol and David Bechtol from Shadow Bechtol Studio in 2017.  This will be an outdoor screening on Comfort Station’s lawn.

Image source 2:  Carlos A. Cortéz, Anisinabe Waki-Aztlan, 1977, linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum\Carlos A. Cortéz, Anisinabe Waki-Aztlan, 1977, linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum [Link]

Dialogue/Presentation: Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán Exhibition (1977)

Date and Time: Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 7:00-8:30pm CST

Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/2X36CFq

Delving into shared Indigenous and Chicanx cultural histories, Anišinabe Waki-Aztlán was a 1977 exhibition at Harry S. Truman College that featured both Indigenous and Chicano artists and was organized by Movimiento Artístico Chicano (MARCh) & the Chicago Indian Artist Guild. A total of 52 participating artists and organizers including Loniel Poco,  Joe Yazzie, Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnic, Sal Vega, Carlos Cumpián and many more participated in the show with posters made by Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl.

We’re honored to have Carlos Cumpián, poet and lead organizer of MARCh along with Sal Vega,  local-muralist and exhibited artist, to share their experience and reflection on the show and how the title came about. Indigenous artists and scholar Dylan A.T. Miner, Ph.D will also account his interpretations of the show’s posters from his book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty and Lowriding Across Turtle Island (University of Arizona Press). This event was developed and will be moderated by Jose Luis Benavides, who will start the conversation with a presentation of their research on the exhibition.

All are welcome to this open dialogue and presentation to highlight and learn more about the significance of this event with participating artists and scholars!

This event was a postponed program from 2020. To access info about the initial program, please visit the project’s page on chuquimarca.com. 

Closed Caption will be available. Discussion event will be recorded and published on Youtube. 

Programs made possible in part by a grant from Illinois Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly

For any questions, please contact info@chuquimarca.com or visit Chuquimarca.com

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Sharon Okee-Chee is a Fort Sill Chiricahua Apache-Sioux tribal elder and recognized artist, writer, archivist, former-director of The American Indian Center. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. She has exhibited at Michigan State University Museum and the University of Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum. She was featured in the City of Chicago-sponsored Chicago Artists Month program in October 2011. She also created a diorama of Native dolls for an exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum. For a decade she operated Okee-Chee's Wild Horse Gallery, Chicago's first Native American art gallery. Her 1997 childhood memoir "Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse: The World of an Indian Orphanage" (University of Nebraska Press), written with her husband Manny Skolnick, earned a literary award from Friends of American Writers Chicago.

Carlos Cumpián was born and raised in Texas and now lives in Chicago. He is the author of the poetry collections Coyote Sun (1990), Armadillo Charm (1996), and 14 Abriles (2010), as well as the children's book Latino Rainbow: Poems About Latino Americans (1995, illustrated by Richard Leonard). His poems have appeared in many anthologies, including Emergency Tacos: Seven Poets con Picante, With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano Readers and Readership Across the Centuries, Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology, and El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry. Cumpián edits March Abrazo Press.

Salvador Vega was born on May 6, 1957 in Chicago, Il in the Little Village, La Villita, the 26th street barrio. He attended McCormick Chicago Public School where he became interested in art. Graduated from Harrison High School (CPS), where he started his work as a muralist.  He painted his first murals there, “Mother Earth” and “Drug Sadness” and “La Azteca.” He worked with Mexican-born artist Aurelio Diaz on the mural “Xochilmilco” in the 18th street Pilsen barrio.  Sal also collaborated with the late Rey Vasquez on a few projects but in Pilsen’s Dvorjak Park, Sal worked with the highly acclaimed artists Juanita Jaramillo and Marcos Raya. Vega also created a special portable mural for the alternative high school Latino Youth, Inc.  He has had numerous solo exhibits across Illinois. 

Dylan A.T. Miner, PhD is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, as well as Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, at Michigan State University. In Spring 2019, he was Denison Visiting Professor of Native American Studies at Central Michigan University. In 2010, he was an Artist Leadership Fellow at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the board of the Michigan Indian Education Council and is a founding member of the Justseeds artist collective. Miner is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. @wiisaakodewinini 

Jose Luis Benavides is a queer Latinx artist, filmmaker and educator. His work was recently featured in Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Chicago, US (2020), Full Spectrum Feature’s - Chicago Cinema Exchange: Mexico City (2020), Onion City: Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, US (2020), MSU Latinx Film Festival, Lansing, US (2020), and Revolutions Per Minute Festival, University of Massachusetts Boston, US (2020). He also programs video-art screenings through Sin Cinta Previa: Latinx & Queer Archive Video Series, which was awarded a POWER Project grant from the Art Leaders of Color Network (2018) and a Propeller Fund grant (2019). @lu3ge

Chuquimarca is an art library tasked to gather and share resources related to Native, Caribbean, and Latin American contemporary art and art histories.

[ao3feed-gallavich]

by Island_ties

*** “Fuck you Schirmer!” Ian fumed into the thin yellow and green book, taunting him with its mediocracy,. He banged his head down on the scratched up piano crowding up most of the space in this dusty UChicago practice room. 24 Italian Songs and Arias was making his head spin - there were only so many times he could hear Vittoria mio core! sung in the weekly masterclasses.... ***

Ian Gallagher is a baritone in 2nd year vocal performance at the University of Chicago. Having been pushed to pursue his singing by Clayton, he is now studying to become an opera singer. He spends most of his evenings in the practice rooms reciting German, Italian and French or writing to his best friend on the run from her awful family. When he notices a guitarist getting special treatment by being allowed to stay in the practice rooms passed closing, he makes it his mission to find out why - and if he can get in on this deal too.

Words: 1321, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Shameless (US)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Ian Gallagher, Mickey Milkovich, Iggy Milkovich, Mandy Milkovich

Relationships: Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - College/University, Singer Ian Gallagher, Opera singer Ian Gallagher, Construction Worker Mickey Milkovich, POV Ian Gallagher, Good Sibling Mandy Milkovich, Mandy is a good friend, Eventual Smut, Security guard Iggy Milkovich, Mentions of canon Milkovich abuse, music school, Lots of arias and art songs mentioned, Operas, Not Beta Read

[uchicagoscrc]

Happy Birthday to philanthropist and businessman, Julius Rosenwald, born on this day in 1862!

Rosenwald is best known for leading Sears, Roebuck, and Company; for his generous giving through the Rosenwald Fund which supported African American education through the establishment of "Rosenwald schools" in rural communities and African American scholars and artists through a fellowship program; and for his founding of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry (which he humbly declined to have named for himself). Want to learn more? Check out this 2015 documentary!

Rosenwald also has many UChicago connections! He was a Trustee of the University from 1912 to 1932, and he donated funds to build many campus buildings and launch the Medical School.

We proudly preserve and provide access to Julius Rosenwald's personal papers, as well as the papers of his father Samuel Rosenwald, and his grandson Peter Ascoli. We invite you to visit our reading room to take a deep dive into the collections!

Images:

Julius Rosenwald at the Shelburne Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, undated. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-07307.

Julius Rosenwald (left) and Booker T. Washington (right), educator and political leader at Tuskegee Institute, 22 February 1915. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-07303.

[uchicagomagazine]

Friends debrief over soft serve on a November day in 1971.

Photography by Frank Gruber, AB’74; UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-03859, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

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[anarchesed]

Love to brag about being a grad student at uchicago to research librarians to get special collections archives to scan original documents for me. Love to use my vpn to look at materials not available in the usa. Love to be a school bitch.

[uchicagoadmissions]

UChicago Photo Archives Rejected Captions

That feeling when the teacher hands out the test and you know the answer to the first question

[splendidly-smith]

Why Smith?

You know, I wasn’t supposed to end up at Smith. I was supposed to go to Yale or Northwestern or Brown- a small, Seven Sister college wasn’t even on my radar until suddenly it was all I could consider. To get to that point, there was an excessive amount of teen angst- my college list changed every week (NYU to UVM to UChicago), I wanted to get as far away from home as possible (as in, seriously considering the University of Edinburgh), and I was struggling with my own feelings of inadequacy. I'd had a concussion my sophomore and junior years which put a small but significant (to me) dent in my academic record and shook my confidence, despite making me a better person in the most unexpected ways. While I can say without sounding egotistical I’ve always been academically minded and successful, the weight of the college admissions process makes even the smartest kids feel like they have nothing to stand on. Somehow, it’s easy to loose sight of your own accomplishments when you’re too busy hearing about everyone’s service trips and scholarships and lab work. Confidence is traded for self deprecation, a toxic transformation. I was weighed down in the quagmire, until a professor at the University of New Hampshire who was my thesis mentor suggested I look at Smith and Mount Holyoke. I nodded my assent, at that point desperate for more schools to add to my already-chock-full list, and scheduled visits at both. My logic was that I had sort-of-enjoyed Wellesley College, so these wouldn’t be so bad. I visited both on the hottest day of the year. MoHo was first, and I quite liked it. Then, I got to Smith. It sounds cheesy, but it was totally a fairy tale moment. As someone who hasn’t always fit in, whether on grounds of being too smart or too talk or too outspoken, Smith was the home I had been searching for for seventeen years. I know, it’s enough to give you a cavity. But the only way I can properly describe the epiphany is like a section from a bad romance novel. I came back for an interview in October, and ended up making contact with the Archives. At that point, I was doing an independent study on Seven Sister Schools in the Swingin’ Sixties, and they were kind enough to let me into their collections, giving me box after box of relevant information, letters, and other primary sources. This also happened to be my seventeenth birthday, so, let’s just say it was amazing. My host took me out for $1 doughnuts (and her whole acapella group came with us!) and I immediately felt welcomed. By another twist of fate, I also was put in contact with an amazing alumna, who met me for lunch and regaled me with tales of her own Smith while also providing some invaluable wisdom. I applied EDI, and when I opened the web page to see my decision (in the bathroom of my schools theater no less), took in the phrase “Congratulations!” I immediately ran back into musical rehearsal screaming and jumping up and down. My friends thought I had just consumed too much coffee again, but it was because, after 17 years, I was finally going home.

[markstucker]

YCBK 98: Why Your EFC Says You have to pay so much for college

In this episode you will hear:

(08:17) In this week’s news segment, an article from The Atlantic, “College Admissions Hysteria Is Not the Norm”, by Alia Wong. A focus on highly selective schools obscures the experience of the vast majority of American undergraduates. Ms. Wong wrote this piece as a great reminder to us all that the majority of students are not facing the ultra-stressful admissions process in trying to get into highly selective schools – which tends to dominate media headlines.

  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/harvard-uchicago-elite-colleges-are-anomaly/586627/

  (27:39) We are in Chapter 98 of 171 Answers we we’ll be talking about why the EFC can sometimes say that families need to pay an outrageous amount of money. We talk about all of the reasons why the EFC is a false measure of what a family can actually afford to pay for college.

  (43:21) This week’s question wants to know how boarding schools prepare kids for college. Anika shares her experience having had two kids attend boarding school and Mark shares how boarding schools uniquely prepare students for college but he also discusses some surprising ways in which boarding schools are overrated in their preparation for college.

  (1:00:39) Mark continues his interview with Emily Griffin, Director of the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning, at Amherst College in – How can you evaluate and fully utilize a college’s career center - Part II. Emily answers the following questions:

  Is there a demand in the job world for students who get degrees in things like history, English, philosophy, etc.

Emily shares the top skills that employers are looking for?

How can you evaluate the various career centers as part of my college process?

Can you trust the statistics career centers put out about the percentage of students with a job after 6 months?

    (1:13:27) Mark’s recommended resource of the week is Department of Education’s Net Price Calculator Center: https://collegecost.ed.gov/net-price

  (1:27:17) College Spotlight: UAB

  Don't forget to send your questions related to any and every facet of the college process to: questions@yourcollegeboundkid.com

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