Tag: Library

The Porch is the Tree is the Watering Hole

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The Porch is the Tree is the Watering Hole, on view at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Viewed through art, architecture, photography and poetry, the exhibition is a dynamic exploration of space and community within this historical Black neighborhood. The exhibition features artists and designers Germane Barnes, Darius V. Daughtry, David I Muir, Adler Guerrier, Olalekan Jeyifous, Adrienne Chadwick, Marlene Brunot and George Gadson, and is presented by Broward County Cultural Division.

[mdpls] zines @ the reading room

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Miami-Dade Public Library + zines + guests.

The Reading Room
A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples
Friday, June 11, Noon – 2 p.m.
Miami-Dade Public Library System, Main Library Children’s Room, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami

With special guests:
Cristina Favretto, Head of Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries; founder of the Zine Collections at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University; Tasha Lopez de Victoria, artist, TM Sisters; Carol Todaro, artist, educator, bookmaker, printmaker; Ximena Izquierdo, artist, student, assistant director, University of Wynwood

With special feature:
A selection of zines from 1992-1996 from the collection of seminal zinestress Scapula Ray

Photo by Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Zine Library.
Photo by Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Zine Library.

On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children’s Room at the Main Library becomes The Reading Room. Visitors can stop by any time between Noon and 2 p.m. to get up close and personal with selections from the Library’s collection of artists’ books, publications and multiples.

The theme of this month’s Reading Room is zines and obsolete technologies. There are many definitions for zines, but they tend to be do-it-yourself or independently produced and distributed publications. Often they are fueled by the personal expressions or obsessions of their creators. Some trace zines to fanzines, publications created by 1930s science fiction fans. Zine librarian Alycia Sellie writes, “Others believe that the medium was more influenced by the punk rock movement of the 1970’s. Many refer to the legacy of zines in the pamphlets and broadsides published as far back as Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, or to the works of the Dada art movement.” In the 90s, zine culture thrived among women and girls as part of “the riot grrrl movement’s reaction to sexism in punk culture..and the rise of third wave feminism.”

Because zines are often created on Xerox machines, we’ll also be talking about the use of obsolete technologies in art and elsewhere. On special display this week is a selection of rare, early-mid 1990s punk/feminist photocopy zines from the collection of Oneco, FL-based zinestress Scapula Ray including Libel, Pawholes, Hey 19, Action Girl, and many others.

As always, there will be coffee and cookies. We may also talk about the World Cup.

For more information about exhibitions and programs at the Miami-Dade Public Library System, visit http://mdpls.org/news/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp

Reading Room @ MDPL

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Artists’ books, multiples and stuff at the Miami-Dade Public Library‘s Reading Room

Subject: TOMORROW: New Arrivals at The Reading Room, 12-2pm

The Reading Room
A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples
Friday, May 14, Noon – 2 p.m.
Main Library Children’s Room, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami
Featuring: New Arrivals Reading Session

This week we’ll take a break from special guest discussions to do some actual reading. The Reading Room will be stocked with 25 artists’ books, multiples and publications added to the Library’s permanent art collection this year. Many of them are heavy on text and demand closer inspection. The most recent batch includes vintage artists’ publications like Avalanche Magazine No. 4 – the Lawrence Weiner issue, from 1972; handmade objects such as Ellen Knudson’s Wild Girls Redux, which won the Florida Artist’s Book Award; zines by Özlem Altin; Black Noise: A Tribute to Steven Parrino, a box set of 32 artist’s books in comic book format, edited by John Armleder, Amy Granat, and Mai-Thu Perret; Nava Atlas’s Love and Marriage, an altered comic; and Poemas, a 1969 livre d’artiste with lithographs by Raoul Veroni and poems by Delmira Agustini, an early 20th century Uruguayan poet whose sensual work made her a trailblazer for later feminist poets.

So take advantage to stop by and read; normally you’d have to make an appointment to see these books and publications. As always, there will be coffee and cookies. There may be music.

On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children’s Room at the Main Library becomes The Reading Room. Visitors can stop by any time between 12 and 2pm to get up close and personal with selections from the Library’s collection of artists’ books, publications and multiples.

Girl who raised pigeons

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‘Girl who Raised Pigeons’ open tomorrow at Main Library.  We are all invited.

The Girl Who Raised Pigeons

October 9 – December 18, 2008

Main Library, Auditorium, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665

Reception and kick-off event for HEAL: A Place to Call Home

Thursday, October 9, 6 – 8:30p.m.

Gary L. Moore, Detail, Into the colors and sounds of the city’s morning, 2008, colored pencil on paper.

Courtesy of the artist.

This exhibition’s title comes from a short story with the same name by Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World. In the story, the relationship between a father and daughter, living in 1960’s Washington D.C., changes as a nearby railroad company buys up property and the neighborhood around them disappears. The story’s themes and images appear in the work: family, loss, displacement, community vigilance, changing landscapes. The show includes photography, drawing, and painting by Gary L. Moore, Kathleen Hudspeth, Ryan Holloway, Adler Guerrier, David Rohn, Vanessa Tomchik, Karla Turcios, Bayunga Kialeuka, and others. Curated by Library Curator Denise Delgado.

HEAL: A Place to Call Home in collaboration with Rhythmic Rapture

HEAL: A Place to Call Home is an arts-intervention program, initiated by arts group Rhythmic Rapture, which uses the arts to facilitate personal transformation for displaced and homeless populations.

The Library System has collaborated with Rhythmic Rapture to present the following series of programs to raise awareness and provoke discussion of the economic, health, cultural, and policy issues that contribute to homelessness and housing problems. The Girl Who Raised Pigeons is part of this program series.

Immigration and Home

A film screening is followed by a discussion of homelessness through the lens of immigration and the struggle to find work, housing, and community far from home.

Saturday, October 18, 1:00-3:00pm

Main Library, Auditorium, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami – 305-2665

The Economy of Home

Through a film screening and discussion, we take a look at how business, housing, and other economic factors contribute to homelessness.

Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 – 8:30pm

Miami Beach Regional, 227 22nd Street, Miami Beach – 305-535-4219

Homelessness and Mental Illness

A workshop in collaboration with the community artists of Rhythmic Rapture about the very real link between mental illness and homelessness.

Saturday, December 13, 2:00 – 4:00pm

Culmer/Overtown, 350 NW 13 Street, Miami – 305-579-5322

For more information about fall exhibitions and related programs at Main Library, check out http://mdpls.org/news/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp.