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Teresa Johnston Basketry
On display in the TSCPL Rotunda through June 2009
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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.
Rebecca Wright
Topeka KS
untitled (c. 1965)
Watercolor, ink on paper
Gift of Barbara Waterman-Peters and Larry Peters
2005.46.2
Dr. Tony Silvestri shows off his roll of vellum (fine parchment made from calf skin), the original book page.
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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Enkawera (wedding necklace), Kenya, Maasai. Made for a bride by her mother. Leather, beads, cowrie shells, aluminum. Gifts of Gary K. Clarke.
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Fionnuala Hart Gerrity
Mythological Bestiary, 2010
Vegetable parchment, letterpress, watercolor, fabric
Edition of 12
TSCPL Permanent Collection
This book uses the medieval tradition of the bestiary to introduce mythological creatures from various cultures. I wanted to marry the aesthetic of illuminated manuscripts with more modern printmaking methods to create an edition that would maintain the feel of a hand written work.
Oil lamp. Ghana, Akan. Aluminum. African villages use whatever materials are available. This lamp was made from an empty tomato paste container. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris.
The Portland Museum of Art had a wonderful exhibit of coastal maine art colony artists' works. Unfortunately, no photos were allowed. This painting is part of the museum's permanent collection.
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
The crane is believed to live a very long life, so it is a symbol for longevity. Next to the phoenix, it is the second most important winged animal in the Chinese pantheon of animals. A pair of cranes is a symbol of long marriage and ultimate longevity.
A rooster is the symbol for reliability, epitome of fidelity and punctuality. Since the Chinese pronunciation for the rooster’s crest is the same as official, it is also a symbol of advantage. To give a rooster as a gift is to wish someone luck in attaining public office or a promotion.
3. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Porcelain
97.40.250
4. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Porcelain, jade
2005.9.1
5. Snuff bottle
ca. 20th century
Milk glass, inner painting
97.40.287
To paint the inside of the bottle, the artist must paint backwards. A skilled artist may complete a simple bottle in a week while something special may take a month or more.
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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.
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
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Deangle mask. Ivory Coast, Dan. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg. Deangle mask. Ivory Coast, Dan. On loan from the Hirschberg family. Passport masks. Ivory Coast, Dan. Wood. Gift of Dr. Cotter and Jeanne Hirschberg.
"More Than Words:
Text, Image, Structure and Material"
Duration: 6:04 minutes
How many ways can a book tell a story? Words and pictures come to mind first, but have you ever wondered if the paper itself or the shape of the book might have something to say as well?
We hope this short video will give you a brief overview of the four ways we believe the books in this exhibit tell their stories.
Installation view left to right:
Man's shirt. Sierra Leone. Mudcloth. On loan from Tim and Jett Elmer. Face mask with birds. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Dan. On loan from Laura Dalrymple and Jim Harris.
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Kitty Maryatt & 10 female students
Arch, 2010
Paper, thread, letterpress
Edition of 109; Scripps College Press, Claremont, CA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
On January 7, 2010, just days before class was to start, the Los Angeles Times published a fascinating article on contemporary women architects, highlighting a striking building by Jeannie Gang. Earlier this year, the brand new President of Scripps College chose the Genius of Women as her inaugural theme. What serendipity! This gave us the perfect inspiration
for our artist book: the genius of women architects. After extensive research and class discussion, a mission statement for the book evolved: Architecture, like books, is a delicate balancing act between stability and motion, interior and exterior, aesthetic values and structural practicalities. Books, like buildings, are fundamentally inhabited spaces. They are
incomplete without human interaction.
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
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.
4. Dragon box
ca. 20th century
Cloisonné enamel, metal
97.40.135
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Yitzhak Greenfield
Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem of Prayer (1990s)
Collage
2006.2
I picked this because I like metaphor and language. Greenfield uses covers from “decommissioned” holy books to create these “Jerusalem collages”—land and cityscapes built from scripture—literally. Embedded in the medium itself, the holy language of Hebrew is now inseparable from this city’s foundation. It is intrinsic to the structure. The language of a political minority is often at risk of extinction. Hebrew’s survival, despite centuries of being the language of the enslaved and exiled, reasserts itself as the dominant voice in the walls of Greenfield’s Jerusalem.
–Heather Kearns
I got to meet Yitzhak and show his work in Kansas City—a true gentleman. He uses the covers taken from holy books that are being rebound. He cuts and tears the book boards to create architectural forms out of the letters, colors and words. It makes me think of creation being made by God’s word. Binders never destroy the holy books. They may re-bind them many times.
–Sherry Best
Anthony Care 'Table Piece LVII' (Tischstück LVII), Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kenya, Maasai
Moran shield
Wood, leather
On loan from Gary K. Clarke, Cowabunga Safaris
Gary K. Clarke is Director Emeritus of the World Famous Topeka Zoo, and President-for-Life of Cowabunga Safaris. Gary led more than 139 photographic safaris to Africa, many of them to Kenya and Tanzania. In the process, he got to know the Maasai people of the region. In 2002, he took his 100th safari to the Oltukui Mara clan’s area. Because he had brought so many people to their region, this clan initiated Gary as an honorary elder, giving him the name “Ole Ishu“ (He Who Gives).
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
Kitty Maryatt & students
To One’s Taste, 2008
Fabric, bone, ribbon, paper, thread, letterpress, linocut
Edition of 109: Scripps College Press, Claremont, CA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
This book was printed by a sprinkling of eleven students in the Fall 2008 Typography class at the Scripps College Press. Each student hand-set their piquant section from a selection of five typefaces and printed their work on well-seasoned Vandercook presses. The binding was designed to mimic a book a pungent spice trader might carry.
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
Howard Goodson on left, with Warrington Colescott, Terry Allen, William Wiley, and Richard Zoellner...
Howard Goodson, "Exercize in Nostalgia," n.d., oil on canvas, 49 x 57" (Gift of Virginia Rembert Liles, P00.12) exhibited in "An Eyeful: Selections from the Permanent Collection," ran April 22 - June 4, 2010.
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Emily Martin
Out There In Here, 2012
Paper, paint, laser print
Edition of 25; Naughty Dog Press, Iowa City, IA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
My mother has frontal lobe dementia. From the beginning her diagnosis was very troubling for her and the rest of the family. As time has passed and her dementia has progressed the family continues to note her deterioration and mourn her loss to us.
She, however, is less and less aware of her changing state. She is more and more often in other places and times where she is busy and happy. None of us can follow her where she goes but there is nothing to be gained by trying to remind her of where she really is.
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Dragon robe
ca. 20th century
Silk, gold and silver thread, mirror
74.10.1
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.
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
Wet & Wild Papermaking Program
Betsy Roe (Gallery educator and associate curator) along with Brea Black (Special Collections librarian) showed people how to make paper today! Each person got to strain it through a screen and then "roll it up like a burrito" to take home, unroll and dry out.
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.
Peggy Gotthold & Lawrence Van Velzer
Herakles and the Eurystheusian Twelve-Step Program, 2009
Paper, letterpress, twine, thread, leather, fabric
Edition of 110: Foolscap Press, Santa Cruz, CA
TSCPL Permanent Collection
If you read your Greek mythology you’ll find that everything I’ve written about Herakles is true. The twelve-step program I’ve written about is what at the time would have been called a set of Labors. Eurystheus didn’t have a lot of research to fall back on. He had to make it up as he went along. You have to give the man credit.