Something about luminous glass filled with intricate design brings to mind holiday candy, icicles and ornaments.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Your Library’s Paperweight Collection?
Posted by Heather Kearns on December 19, 2011
What Do I Love About Big Band Music? The Spirit!
Posted by Sherry Best on December 12, 2011
Keeping morale up was critical: the music speaks of hope, of dancing, of forgetting the dangers the world was in.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Albert Bloch?
Posted by Heather Kearns on December 12, 2011
For week 50 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series, we’re taking a closer look at artist Albert Bloch, head of drawing and painting from 1923-1947 at the University of Kansas, and only American member of Der Blaue Reiter, Germany’s most important group of artists in the 20th century which contributed greatly to the development of Expressionism.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About John Steuart Curry?
Posted by Heather Kearns on December 5, 2011
It’s week 49 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series, and as Kansas completes its 150th birthday year, we’ve come full-circle back to Kansas Territory and Kansas artist John Steuart Curry.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About “The History of the Indian Tribes of North America”?
Posted by Heather Kearns on November 28, 2011
It’s national Native American Heritage Month, so for week 47 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series we’re featuring our rare, 3-volume set of History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas McKenney & James Hall.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Eanger Irving Couse?
Posted by Heather Kearns on November 21, 2011
It’s national Native American Heritage Month, so for week 48 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series, we’re featuring painter Eanger Irving Couse, founding member of the Taos Society of Artists known for his lifelong fascination with Native American culture and serious figurative scenes of the Indians of Taos Pueblo.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Your Library’s Chinese Snuff Bottle Collection?
Posted by Heather Kearns on November 14, 2011
It’s week 46 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series and also National Drug Facts Week, so we thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at our Chinese snuff bottle collection.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Jaune Quick-To-See Smith?
Posted by Heather Kearns on November 7, 2011
It’s national Native American Heritage Month, so for week 45 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series we’re featuring Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. A painter of Salish, French-Cree, and Shoshone heritage, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s art “presents a cross-cultural dialogue between those values and experiences of the artist’s inherited past and those of late-20th-century Euro-American culture.”
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Your Library’s Pop-Up & Movable Book Collection?
Posted by Heather Kearns on October 31, 2011
Boo! It’s Halloween! It’s also National Book Month, so for week 44 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series we’re taking a closer look at our Pop-up book collection. Like Halloween, these books capitalize on the thrill of anticipation and suspense by promising unexpected surprises around every corner—er—page.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Your Library’s Moses Fine Art Book Collection?
Posted by Heather Kearns on October 24, 2011
Continuing to highlight National Book Month, for week 43 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series we’ve chosen to focus on the Moses Fine Art Book Collection, which includes books on architecture, costume design, furniture, painting, printmaking and sculpture.
52 for 150: What’s So Special About Your Library’s Fore Edge Book Collection?
Posted by Heather Kearns on October 17, 2011
October is National Book Month, so for week 42 of our Kansas sesquicentennial video series we thought it would be cool to feature our Fore Edge Book Collection.
