All right, I’ll ‘fess up. Our whole Eye of the Beholder exhibit thing? Was Arlene being lazy. In early September 2008, when I asked if we should do something for Archives Month in October, Mariecris suggested an exhibit. The problem …
T.S. Eliot might have called it the cruellest, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped a lot of people from using April to celebrate a lot of things. Jazz. Gardens.
And poetry, mathematics, and food, too. To celebrate April, the …
The Library has these exhibit cases. We’ve been doing what we can to say that because the exhibit cases used to belong to A&SC but they’re not all that practical for most of the exhibits that we do these days. …
This is Arlene. That title isn’t a joke. A couple of years ago my mother found my kindergarten grade card and sent it to me. I did okay on the less physical elements of the curriculum, but the things requiring …
Lately we’ve been getting a lot of requests in pairs. Not the same queries, just queries for the same collection. Today we had two email requests regarding the Michael Philip collection from people who had spotted the portion of the …
well, fabric tape, to be a little more precise.
The 2009 edition of Eye of the Beholder is up in our research area in A&SC and we think it looks pretty good. Most of our exhibit flat panels are in …
The entries for our Eye of the Beholder exhibit are starting to trickle in. Which is good, since earlier this week we had none and were beginning to wonder if we’d have anything to exhibit. The nature of deadlines and …
It doesn’t seem like a natural match, and after next Monday we might decide it isn’t, but MC & I (Arlene) have volunteered to spend Labor Day at the Alaska State Fair at the UAA booth promoting A&SC and maybe …
Some days you just have to dump all those waiting reports and documents to write and such and just spend a day moving stuff about. Today was that day.
And it all started with the picturingUAA project. We’ve been putting …
Last year we did a great exhibit called “Eye of the Beholder.” Well, not so much we, as everybody else who decided to do the really heavy lifting for us. Here’s the theory behind the exhibit: take a single photograph, …
