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New: Exploring Race in Society
07/31/2023
profile-icon Laura M. Ponikvar
Library Resources

New Database

Exploring Race in Society Handout

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New Book Spotlight: Wild clay: creating ceramics and glazes from natural and found resources
07/25/2023
profile-icon Dana Bjorklund
Library Resources
Cover ArtWild clay : creating ceramics and glazes from natural and found resources
Call Number: TT 921.5 .L48 2022
 
The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between their art and their surroundings. Testing and trial and error are key to finding a material's best use, so the authors' tips, drawn from long experience in the US and Japan (but which can be applied to clays anywhere) provide an enviable head-start on this rewarding journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies, throwing clay bodies, handbuilding and slab bodies, or simply be applied as a glaze or slip. The specific properties of found materials can create a diverse range of effects and surfaces, or, even when not fired, can be adapted for use as colorful pastels or pigments. Beautiful illustrations and helpful technical descriptions explain the formation of various clays; how to locate, collect and assess them; how to test their properties of shrinkage, water absorption, texture and plasticity; the best ways to test-fire them; and how to adapt a clay's characteristics by blending appropriate materials. From prospecting in the field to holding your finished product, there is helpful advice through every stage, and a gallery of work by international potters who have embraced the clays found around them. 

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Hours Update: Wed. July 19
07/19/2023
profile-icon Jackie Lagunzad
Library Services

🕛 Library Hours Update: The library will be open 12-4pm today. We'll be opening late to facilitate an employee training session in the morning. This update applies for this date only.

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Flipster Magazine Spotlight: The New Criterion
07/12/2023
profile-icon Starr Dobson
Library Resources

Founded by Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman in 1982, The New Criterion is a publication of criticism that centers around cultural, artistic, and political criticism. Check out the New Criterion on Flipster, where you can glean inspiration from and dive into stimulating intellectual discussions! Also check out the back issues we have available in print!

 

Subscribe | The New Criterion

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New Book Spotlight: The Black Experience in Design
07/11/2023
profile-icon Dana Bjorklund
Library Resources
Cover ArtThe Black Experience in Design
Call Number: N 6538 .A35 B527 2022
 
Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily favor European modernist influences, the work and experiences of Black designers have been systematically overlooked in the profession for decades. The Black Experience in Design is an anthology centering a range of perspectives, spotlights teaching practices, research stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Through the voices represented, this text exemplifies the inherently collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of design, providing access to ideas and topics for a variety of audiences, meeting people as they are and wherever they are in their knowledge about design.

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Flashback Friday: Matzen Fountain Dedication (1918)
07/07/2023
profile-icon Laura M. Ponikvar
CIA Archives

If you have been in the library, you are familiar with our "little man" who sits by the New Books display. Sometimes, he is dressed up for a holiday or a special event at CIA. Well, he was originally a fountain created by Herman N. Matzen, a faculty member, and presented to the school by the Alumni Association. It was at the front entrance of the Juniper Road building. When the building was demolished in the mid-1950s, the fountain was moved to the library, where it has remained ever since! Today's Flashback is an image of the program for the 1918 dedication of the sculpture along with a picture of the sculpture today. 

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New Library Displays for July and August
07/06/2023
profile-icon Jackie Lagunzad
Library Resources

Disability Pride Month 2023The United States of America

Throughout the rest of summer break, the library presents two new displays in our hallway case, focused on the following themes:

  • "Disability Pride Month", as July marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • "The USA", reflecting on the country during its birthday month.

Visit the displays in-person or online to find resources that contribute to conversations surrounding these two topics.

And stay tuned later in August for our 2023-24 back-to-school display!

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Fourth of July Holiday
07/03/2023
profile-icon Jackie Mayse
Library Services

Happy Fourth of July! CIA Library will be closed Monday, July 3rd and Tuesday, July 4th for the holiday.

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