A brand new exhibition opened on February 8 in the Main Library Gallery. Building Our Own Community: 50 Years of the Latino Native American Cultural Center, Founded by Chicano and American Indian Students in 1971 was curated with care by Rachel Garza Carreón and Christopher Ortega. Their work honors the past, present, and future of theContinue reading “‘It Is Home’: Q&A with Exhibit Curators Rachel Garza Carreón and Christopher Ortega”
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Building Our Own Community: Exhibit Celebrates UI’s Latino Native American Cultural Center
In 1971, three University of Iowa students, Nancy “Rusty” Barceló, Ruth Pushetonequa, and Antonio Zavala, established what is now the Latino Native American Cultural Center (LNACC) on campus. In 2021, the LNACC is celebrating 50 years of creating community and a home-away-from-home for Latinx and Native American students at the University of Iowa. An exhibitionContinue reading “Building Our Own Community: Exhibit Celebrates UI’s Latino Native American Cultural Center”
Sackner Archive Exhibit Virtual Tour Launched
For those who did not get a chance to visit the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery during the Fall 2020 semester, you’re in luck! The virtual tour of the exhibit is now ready to view. The tour features 360° photos of the Main Library Gallery, which allow the viewer to move fromContinue reading “Sackner Archive Exhibit Virtual Tour Launched”
Sackner Archive: Building a ‘Home Sweet Museum’
In this short video, Margaret Gamm, Head of Special Collections and co-curator of the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery, gives insight about the correspondence between Marvin and Ruth Sackner and the artists whose work they admired, commissioned, and joyfully collected. The personal correspondence archive within the Sackner Archive is something of a roadmapContinue reading “Sackner Archive: Building a ‘Home Sweet Museum’”
Sackner Archive: Hanne Darboven’s Mathematical Art
In this short video, Peter Balestrieri, curator of popular culture and science fiction in Special Collections and co-curator of the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery, shares his take on work by German poet artist Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009). The featured work from 1973, Kunst und Pangeometrie, appears in the Fall 2020Continue reading “Sackner Archive: Hanne Darboven’s Mathematical Art”
Sackner Archive: An Iowa Author, A World View
By Timothy Shipe Curator, International Dada Archive Co-Curator, Sackner Archive exhibition Mary Ellen Solt is the only poet in the Sackner Archive exhibition who is also part of the UI Libraries’ Iowa Authors Collection. Born in 1920 in Gilmore City, Iowa, Mary Ellen Bottom graduated from Iowa State Teachers College (now UNI) in 1941. She married Leo F.Continue reading “Sackner Archive: An Iowa Author, A World View”
Sackner Archive: Poets as Dissidents
By Timothy Shipe Curator, International Dada Archive Co-Curator, Sackner Archive exhibition In former Czechoslovakia, concrete poets were at the heart of dissident movements seeking to reform or overthrow the Communist regime. Two of these poets are included in the Czech section of our exhibition. Continue reading “Sackner Archive: Poets as Dissidents”
Sackner Archive: Merz, Schwitters, Art
Timothy Shipe, curator of the International Dada Archive and co-curator of the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery, has some stories to share about poet artist Kurt Schwitters and his Merz publications in this new video. Merz no. 2 appears in the Fall 2020 Main Library Gallery exhibition. Objects on display in SacknerContinue reading “Sackner Archive: Merz, Schwitters, Art”
Remarkable Artistry: Sackner Archive in the Main Library Gallery
The Main Library Gallery at the University of Iowa Libraries recently opened Sackner Archive, an exhibition featuring select pieces from the world-renowned Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Founded by Ruth and Marvin Sackner in 1979 in Miami Beach, Florida, the Archive has always combined the couple’s great appreciation for art and wordsContinue reading “Remarkable Artistry: Sackner Archive in the Main Library Gallery”
Virtual exhibition: ‘The Pull of Horses’
While The Pull of Horses on National and Local Histories and Identities, curated by Dr. Kim Marra and Mark Anderson, is no longer on display in the Main Library Gallery, a virtual celebration of the Spring 2020 exhibition is available online! Learn more about the exhibit here, and find a link to explore the online contentContinue reading “Virtual exhibition: ‘The Pull of Horses’”