~Yale Arts Library Blog~

The Mayor’s Community Arts Grants Program has been designed to support the community by providing financial, marketing and technical assistance for arts and cultural related programs, projects and events which occur in New Haven neighborhoods.

Individuals who are presenting, teaching or practicing artists and non-profit arts organizations working with neighborhood-based community and/or youth or senior groups in the City of New Haven. Eligible activities include: festivals, parades, exhibitions, murals/public art, children’s activities, inter-generational programs, arts education, film, public performances, neighborhood collaborations and apprenticeships.

The application deadline is June 4, 2008. A total of $25,000 will be awarded through grants up to $2,000. The grant application package is available for download on the City’s website, visit this website. For more information about the program, please contact Kim Futrell at (203) 946-7172 or kfutrell@newhavenct.net.

Press release here.

Via SCSU: Join us Wednesday, May 14, 2008 , 1:00 p.m, to discuss and share ideas about green libraries and campuses.

Conveners:

Mary Carr, Dean Instructional Services, Spokane Community College

Dr. Debra Rowe, President of the US Partnership for a Sustainable Future

From a library/librarians’ perspective, how are our library resources when it comes to sustainability? Are we supporting the college’s curricular efforts? What about the “greening” of the library and the campus? Can we practice sustainability? Can we promote it by speakers, presentations, etc.? What can we do within our library associations, and other professional groups?

Suggested background readings:

-Inside Higher Ed blog “getting to green” http://insidehighered.com/views/blogs/getting_to_green

-Do Colleges Need Green Czars?” Inside HigherEd. April 15, 2008. http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/15/sustainability

-Greening your library blog http://greeningyourlibrary.wordpress.com/

NOTE: All ACRL OnPoint chats are free and open to the public. Sessions are unmoderated, 30 to 45 minutes long, and take place in a Meebo chat room. While no registration is necessary to participate, ACRL recommends creating a quick and easy Meebo account for the best experience while participating in ACRL OnPoint discussions. Full details are available on the ACRL Web site at www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/OnPoint/onpoint.cfm.

Posted by Chris

Too bad we won’t be getting these in the new Arts Library.

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The Dramat’s “Angels in America: Part 1=Millenium Approaches”: AIDS, gays, ‘Angels in’ … Antarctica? by Zeynep Pamuk

“Bone Songs”: He said, She said, ‘Bone’ harmonizes by Nicholle Manners

“Where It’s At”: Marshall Pailet ’09 informs Yale ‘Where It’s At’ by Alena Gribskov

“Director’s Cut”: Keeping it gangsta w/ Rhythmic Blue’s ‘Cut’ by Robert Kruse

“Esdras”: Punishment and Claustrophobia by Nicolas Niarchos

Posted by: Tanya

Student Profile: Why Yale Was the Right Program for Him
Ahmed Alsoudani - Fine Arts
Linda Kulman, U.S. News and World Report 3/26/08

Posted by: Tanya

Yale Rep to stage Oscar Wilde’s play about serial seducers and secrets in British society March 21, 2008|Volume 36, Number 22 Yale Bulletin

Posted by: Tanya

The New York Public Library received a $100 million donation from Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman.

“The gift from Mr. Schwarzman, a library trustee and buyout guru who made fortunes as the chief executive of the Blackstone Group, is among the largest to any cultural institution in the city’s history.”

Despite his impossibly generous donation, the following quote from a NY Times article on the donation is fairly despicable:

“The library helps lower- and middle-income people — immigrants — get their shot at the American dream.”

I am sorry but that statement is so wrong in so many ways. First, it is condescending towards the very people he claims are enlightened by the NYPL. Am I to assume Mr. Schwarzman does not go to the NYPL to fulfill the American dream? Or did he when and if he was simply middle or, gasp, lower class. Second, the NYPL is a top-notch research library that happens to be a public institution. The library caters to and is invaluable to all social classes, ethnicities, etc. It’s collections are used by everyone.

While I am incredibly happy to hear the NYPL is getting loads of money to continue to serve the public good and we should all be thankful Mr. Schwarzman is so generous, his lack of sensitivity to the NYPL’s mission and patrons is galling.

Here is a press release from the NYPL regarding their $1 billion redevelopment plan.

Posted by: Ian

Many apologies for not posting since December…it’s course-reserve time at the library, and Chris and I have been swamped with putting up books and e-reserves for professors. We’ll put notices up in the future re: when we have to put the blog on hold. Most of the Yale Art and Architecture professors have gotten their lists in by now and are either completed or are in the final stages, though, so we’ll be able to resume blogging. Yay!

-Tanya

Yale Playwright Wins ‘Genius’ Grant
By FRANK RIZZO, Hartford Courant 9/25/07

“Lynn Nottage, a Yale School of Drama playwright and lecturer best known for her plays ‘Intimate Apparel’ and ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy,’ is among 24 people who have been awarded the so-called ‘genius grant’ by the MacArthur Foundation.”

Posted by: Tanya

From the CLUI exhibit Loop Feedback Loop:
The Big Picture of Traffic Control In Los Angeles

The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is, “Dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.”

Additionally, “The organization was founded in 1994, and since that time it has produced over 30 exhibits on land use themes and regions, for public institutions all over the United States, as well as overseas. Public tours have been conducted in several states, and over ten books have been published by the CLUI. CLUI Archive photographs illustrate journals, popular magazines, and books by other publishers, and have been used in non-CLUI exhibitions, and acquired by art collectors.”

The site also includes The CLUI Land Use Database, “an on-line computer database of unusual and exemplary sites throughout the United States. It is a free public resource, designed to educate and inform the public about the function and form of the National landscape, a terrestrial system that has been altered to accommodate the complex demands of our society.”

See a list of CLUI exhibitions here.

Posted by: Ian M.

Antonio Frasconi, The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)

The exhibition The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) at El Museo Del Barrio in Harlem is in its final two weeks, closing June 17th. The exhibit “brings together visual artists’ responses to the tens of thousands of persons who were kidnapped, tortured, killed and “vanished” in Latin America by repressive right-wing military dictatorships during the late-1950s to the 1980s.”

The artwork, by and large, is both politically and aesthetically sophisticated, eschewing the sloganeering that sometimes mires political artwork. Perhaps because many of the artists in the show have witnessed and lived through brutal regimes, these artists are able to create a more nuanced and thoughtful reaction to the unimaginable horrors perpetrated throughout Latin America over the last half-century.

Posted by: Ian M.

“This year, the[International Festival of Arts & Ideas] has gathered artists and thinkers actively revolutionizing their art form and, in turn, the world around them….While acknowledging a rate of change that can approach the overwhelming, even chaotic, they are at once affirming artistic traditions and, with wonder and a strong sense of play, charting new, even astonishing, courses into the new century.”

-Mary Lou Aleskie, executive director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Festival highlights ‘revolutionary’ artists and thinkers Yale Bulletin May 25, 2007|Volume 35, Number 29

Posted by: Tanya

“Ushered in by Spike Lee, the 15-day bonanza of summer fun called Arts & Ideas will feature, among other attractions: A floating concert boat designed by Louis Kahn, individualized dance performances for an audience of one, and a tap dance show on the Green.”

Arts & Ideas Lineup Unveiled, Melissa Bailey, New Haven Independent 4/18/07

 Posted by: Tanya A.

Käthe Kollwitz, “Mothers,” 1919, lithograph -The Walter Landauer Collection, The Benton

The Anti-War Imagery Of German Artist Kathe Kollwitz Still Resonates Today April 12, 2007 Lisa Gates Hartford Courant

“The exhibition, Käthe Kollwitz: Intemperate Times 1918-1934, features 30 prints from the museum’s collection, as well as a video installation, in fear, by Leslee Broersma, for a contemporary twist on some of Kollwitz’s concerns. ‘This is a first step in extending our human rights exhibitions back in time to use historic art to present issues that are relative today and as a springboard into producing discussion and even challenges among the visitors that we have,’ explains Steven Kern, director of the museum. ‘It allows us to make a statement in art that ideally will generate discussion, make people think a little differently.’”

 Posted by: Tanya A.

Paper Rad at Cirrus Gallery

Prior to Yale, I worked at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Penna. Pittsburgh has a thriving art scene and the Paper Rad collective is well represented. Their overall aesthetic defies classification, but their seizure-inducing website should give a sense of what they are about. In no particular order - art, parties, music, low-tech animation. I especially enjoy the free get well cards and the “Bubble Puppy Music Video”.