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Cynthia Colbert
Cultivating a Gardener, 2010
Wood, paper, leather, bone, mica, leaf, paint, thread
Unique book
TSCPL Permanent Collection
The book uses text from a '50s gardening book on the underside of mica pages with overlays of dried leaves from plants in my garden. The wooden cover is distressed and covered with layers of milk paint so that it feels like a book one would take into her garden.
Teresa Johnston Basketry
On display in the TSCPL Rotunda through June 2009
Check out Teresa Johnston's Flickr page
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Carry baskets. Liberia, Loma. Gift of Diana Hawks.
Storage and “carry” baskets are woven from rice straw and liapa vines. The dyes can come from kola nuts (the orange color), dark dried leaves (brown), and indigo (deep blue). When one goes to market, one must bring one’s own bag. “Paper or plastic” is not available.
In 2015, the Walker celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding as a public art center dedicated to presenting and collecting the art of our times. Curated by the Walker’s executive director Olga Viso and guest curator Joan Rothfuss, the exhibition looks at 75 years of collecting at the Walker—a history distinguished not only by bold and often risk-taking choices but also acquisitions that have consistently breached the boundaries of media or disciplines.
Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections is on view from October 16, 2014 to September 11, 2016 in Galleries 4, 5, 6.
Curators: Olga Viso and Joan Rothfuss, with Andrew Blauvelt, Jill Vuchetich, and Mia Lopez
"Golden Lily" shoes, China
Wood, satin; 20th c.
Gift of Annie B. Sweet
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Permanent Collection, S-24
Some of these erasers go back to the 1960s and 70s. My father always used Pink Pearl erasers. He never threw away an eraser nubbin, but kept them on his desk. I gathered them all up when he died in 1980.
Cynthia Colbert
Cultivating a Gardener, 2010
Wood, paper, leather, bone, mica, leaf, paint, thread
Unique book
TSCPL Permanent Collection
The book uses text from a '50s gardening book on the underside of mica pages with overlays of dried leaves from plants in my garden. The wooden cover is distressed and covered with layers of milk paint so that it feels like a book one would take into her garden.
Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition
Paul Peck Gallery
Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html
Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project
Dr. Tony Silvestri taught students at Washburn University how to create an illuminated manuscript. This is one of the pages he created.
Recently we took a journey back in time to the Middle Ages, before the printing press, when books were written and illustrated entirely by hand. Dr. Tony Silvestri from Washburn University showed us how he’s keeping this complex craft alive today. Offered in conjunction with "Telling Stories", our current book art exhibit.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP
42/150: Four Topeka Trade Cards, advertisements for area businesses.
38/150: The City of Homes, 1922
43/150: Helen Hodge: photographs of children, her specialty. In summers, she would close the shop to paint.
41/150: Garlinghouse home catalog. The Garlinghouse company designed and built homes all over the country.
36/150: Topeka’s 100 Years of Inspired Leadership brochure, 1901-1905: Great Smith, town views, Christ’s Hospital 1909
34/150: Kansas State Fair Association Vice President ribbon, 1915
39/150: Forbes parking token
40/150: Railroad token
37/150: Topeka Illustrated, A Capital City, 1911
Susaku Arakawa 'The Given' (Das Vorgegebene), 1972, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
(DETAIL) Sample illuminated page by Dr. Tony Silvestri.
Recently we took a journey back in time to the Middle Ages, before the printing press, when books were written and illustrated entirely by hand. Dr. Tony Silvestri from Washburn University showed us how he’s keeping this complex craft alive today. Offered in conjunction with "Telling Stories", our current book art exhibit.
Dragon and Phoenix
ca. 20th century
Silk, thread
97.40.452a
The use of the dragon and phoenix together symbolizes the wedded bliss of a husband and wife. Traditionally they are symbols of the Emperor and Empress.
The dragon is a symbol of male vigor, fertility, ultimate abundance, prosperity and good fortune. It is the symbol of the Emperor. The dragon, as a divine mystical creature, is the symbol of the natural world, adaptability and transformation.
A phoenix is the symbol of virtue, duty, correct behavior, humanity, reliability, strength, resilience, good fortune and luck. The phoenix is considered to be the most important of the winged animals, a symbol of yin in the yin-yang energy.
Crushing a pigment source.
Recently we took a journey back in time to the Middle Ages, before the printing press, when books were written and illustrated entirely by hand. Dr. Tony Silvestri from Washburn University showed us how he’s keeping this complex craft alive today. Offered in conjunction with "Telling Stories", our current book art exhibit.
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Granary door. Mali, Dogon. 19th-20th century. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg. Chi Wara headdress. Mali, Bamana. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg. Chi Wara headdress. Mali, Bamana. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg.
Mentors
Marko Fields
Teapot, 1995
Stoneware, porcelain, resin, sterling silver, nickel
Topeka Competition 20 Friends of the
Library Purchase Award, 1996.13
Fields got his BFA from the University of Kansas and his MFA from Kansas State University. His work is featured in numerous public and private collections, and has appeared in national clay magazines. Visit his website: www.markofields.com/.
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Amy & Beth Dowell (STUDENTS)
Nine Minutes Apart, 2002
Porcelain, black lacquer boxes
Topeka Competition 25 Friends of the Library Purchase Award, 2003.13
The Dowell sisters are twins. They work collaboratively as a unit to produce artwork. They were separated by nine minutes at birth. They were not students of Marko Fields, however, his work was an influence on them. A student-teacher relationship can happen at a distance as well as in the classroom.
Tools of the trade.
Recently we took a journey back in time to the Middle Ages, before the printing press, when books were written and illustrated entirely by hand. Dr. Tony Silvestri from Washburn University showed us how he’s keeping this complex craft alive today. Offered in conjunction with "Telling Stories", our current book art exhibit.
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7/150: Map of Territorial Kansas in 1856
6/150: Charles L. Marshall, “Old Settler’s Cabin, Gage Park”, lithograph, 1936. Swedish settler Adam Bauer, near Watson, hewed logs flat on the front and back when they built cabins. Harry C. Snyder, commissioner of parks, moved it to Gage Park in 1933, as part of the Old Settler’s Memorial Grounds. The heirs of Guilford Gage donated 80 acres of land to Topeka in 1899. The deed stated that the park was for the "benefit of the health, comfort and recreation of the citizens of Topeka and their friends...” Gage Park is now home to the Topeka Zoo and Helen Hocker Theater, and lovely rose parks. 75.1.21
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Fred Hagstrom
"deeply honored" (2011)
Paper, silkscreen, fabric
Edition of 26; Strong Silent Type Press, Minneapolis, MN
TSCPL Permanent Collection
"deeply honored" is a story about the internment of Japanese Americans during the war. Carleton College took in several students under scholarship in order to get them out of internment camps.
Carleton’s first such student was Frank Shigemura, who enlisted after one great year at Carleton. He was killed in France. After the war, his parents were released and returned to Seattle. They appreciated what Carleton had done for their son, so they began a string of contributions to the College. This added up over the years, until the College President discovered that they were living in poverty and were giving a large portion of the income to the school. He tried (without success) to discourage them from any more contributions. Carleton has a scholarship in his name, and a room in his honor in our memorial hall. When his parents died, they left anything they had to Carleton.
The book is about this tremendous family and what they did in the face of one of the great injustices of our history. "deeply honored" is a phrase from Mrs. Shigemura. The text is from archival letters, including those of Mrs. Shigemura to the school.
—Fred Hagstrom
American Red Cross Nurse uniforms on loan from the Kansas Capital Area.
We partnered this year to raise needed supplies for area veterans and sent holiday postcards to service members overseas.
American Red Cross Nurse uniforms on loan from the Kansas Capital Area.
We partnered this year to raise needed supplies for area veterans and sent holiday postcards to service members overseas.
Smithsonian Institution NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at 8th and F Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 9 February 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography
THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Permanent Exhibition
Paul Peck Gallery
Visit NPG / THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE website at www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/struggle/index.html
Elvert Barnes FEBRUARY 2014 BLACK HISTORY MONTH Project
Jim Bass
"Seated Woman Looking Up" (1974)
Serigraph
Gift from Larry Peters and Barbara Waterman-Peters, 2005.46.24
Curate This! is a mentorship program where area high school students are instructed in the various skills needed to work in a gallery workplace.
Part classroom and part independent study, we are willing to work with instructors to monitor student progress and credit her/him for grading purposes.
Contact our museum educator, Betsy Roe, if you or someone you know is interested in participating in 2014: 785-580-4577 (or) eroe@tscpl.org.
Wedding garments (three garments in center of photo)
Sierra Leone
On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer, worn by them at their wedding.
LEFT: Men's overgarment (aka Big Man’s garment) / Cotton damask, embroidery
MIDDLE: Men's short shirt / Cotton damask, embroidery
RIGHT: Woman’s wedding dress / Tie-dye cotton, embroidery
American Red Cross Nurse uniforms on loan from the Kansas Capital Area.
We partnered this year to raise needed supplies for area veterans and sent holiday postcards to service members overseas.