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Publication A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era(2014-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries host A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era, a panel exhibition from the Library of American Landscape History, through Saturday, May 10, 2014, on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst. An opening reception on Wednesday, March 5, at 4:30 p.m., includes remarks by Robin Karson, author and curator, and Carol Betsch, photographer. The event is free and open to the public. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, new fortunes in the United States made it possible for many city dwellers to commission country estates. Rising cultural aspirations, a widespread belief in the salutary benefits of country life, the availability of beautiful land, and growing numbers of landscape practitioners set the stage for thousands of such places. From the 1890s to the waning years of the Great Depression, legions of American estates were constructed on the outskirts of cities, in resorts, and in scenic locales throughout the nation. Taken together, they comprise an important movement in the history of North American landscape design. Seven examples are the subject of this photographic exhibition: Gwinn, Cleveland, Ohio; Stan Hywet, Akron, Ohio; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.; Winterthur, Winterthur, Del.; Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.; Val Verde, Santa Barbara, Calif.; and Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Mass. About the Exhibition A Genius for Place was a collaboration between Robin Karson, a landscape historian, and Carol Betsch, a landscape photographer. Karson studied hundreds of historical landscapes and selected seven to represent the chronological development of an important movement in American landscape design. Over the course of five years, she and Betsch selected views that would reveal and illuminate the designers’ intentions and express the spirit of each place. Betsch created the photographs with a 4 x 5 wood field camera. Both the book and exhibition trace the development of American landscape design by analyzing a group of landscapes that were chosen for their significance, state of preservation, and chronological and geographical distribution. Most are open to the public today. Karson argues that the spirit of the place--the genius loci--continued to guide these twentieth-century practitioners, even as they began experimenting with other influences, from the Beaux Arts to modernism. The award-winning book has drawn wide praise. The London Telegraph identified it as the “most important book on American gardens for at least a decade.” An exhibition of original photographs specially commissioned for the book toured nationally from 2000 to 2012. A Genius for Place In conjunction with the touring show, the Library of American Landscape History (LALH) and the University of Massachusetts Press have published a paperback edition of A Genius for Place. Robin Karson’s published works include Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect; The Muses of Gwinn, Pioneers of American Landscape Design (co-editor), A Genius for Place, and more than one hundred articles about American landscape design. She is the founding director of LALH, based in Amherst, Mass. Carol Betsch (b. 1948) has been a landscape photographer for more than thirty-five years. Her photographs appear in The Winterthur Garden; The Muses of Gwinn; The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman; A Modern Arcadia, and many other books and articles about American landscape design. She is the managing editor of the University of Massachusetts Press. Founded in 1992, LALH is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to foster understanding of the fine art of landscape architecture and appreciation for North America’s richly varied landscape heritage through LALH books, exhibitions, and online resources. Photo: Winterthur by Carol BetschPublication Color Woodblock Prints, an Exhibition by Linda Mahoney '79(2017-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries host Color Woodblock Prints, an Exhibition by Linda Mahoney ’79, from January 23 through April 28, 2017, in the Science & Engineering Library (SEL), Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Linda Mahoney has been a painter for over 30 years. She lives in Northfield, Massachusetts, and was an art teacher at Stoneleigh-Burnham School for Girls in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from 1987 to 2016. In 2007, she took a workshop in Moku Hanga—Japanese watercolor woodblock printmaking—and fell in love with all parts of the process. It has become her primary medium. Mahoney graduated from UMass Amherst in 1979 with a B.F.A. in Painting and a minor in Art History. Her artworks have been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally through the Art in Embassies Program which promotes the cultural identity of America’s art and artists by borrowing original works of art by U.S. citizens for display in approximately 180 U.S. embassy residences worldwide. During the last five years she has been exhibiting her color woodblock prints in outdoor art shows throughout New England, and has received several awards for her prints. In June of 2016, she was the “Artist in Residence” at Acadia National Park in Maine. Moku Hanga consists of designing an image, carving several blocks for each print design, experimenting with colors while proof printing, refining the blocks and colors, using brushes to apply water-based paint mixed with rice paste to the paper and then applying pressure with a hand-held baren (a pad of twisted cord covered with paper, cloth, and bamboo leaves) in order to make the final print. “I paint numerous watercolors en plein air, during the warmer months, returning to favorite places each year. I favor the undisturbed landscape, usually nature preserves, state parks, wildlife sanctuaries, or undeveloped coastal areas,” says Mahoney. “I am particularly drawn to Downeast Maine; the Schoodic Peninsula, Steuben, Addison, and Lubec. Distinctive trees, crashing surf and rocks, bogs, boreal forests, marshes, and active skies are frequently my subjects.” Mahoney then studies these watercolors and selects the ones that best capture the spirit of place to use as designs for her color woodblock prints. The exhibition will include a display of her materials and process. To view the artist’s work, visit: lmahoneyprints.comPublication Jazz is Alive: Exhibit of Jazz Images and Regional Culture(2015-01-01)The records of the Boston Jazz Society (BJS), including posters, correspondence, photographs, recordings, videos and publications, have been donated to the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries by the group's founding member and longtime president, Aureldon Edward Henderson.Publication Global Perspectives: Through Student Eyes(2018-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries and International Programs Office (IPO) host an exhibition of photos, “Global Perspectives through Student Eyes,” from February 5 through May 11, 2018, in the Science & Engineering Library (SEL), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A reception will be held in SEL on Tuesday, March 6, from 4-6 P.M. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. IPO sponsors an annual photo contest for students to submit images they photograph while studying abroad. The images featured in this exhibit are just a sampling of the collections available on the IPO website and Facebook page. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the UMass Amherst Libraries and the International Programs Office.Publication RASE: Research Art-Science Exhibition(2019-01-01)The campus community was invited to attend the second annual Research Art-Science Exhibition from 2 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 in the Digital Media Lab (DML) on the third floor of the W.E.B. DuBois Library. About 40 students, mostly from various STEM backgrounds, presented artistic representations of their research activities they created while participating in the media lab’s drive to support their new skills such a networking, sharing ideas, results and practicing presentations with peers.Publication SYNERGY: An exhibition of paintings and prints by artist Alica Hunsicker '93(2016-01-01)In the exhibition, SYNERGY, Alicia Hunsicker investigates the powerful combination of art and science to produce creations greater than the sum of their separate parts. With science as a point of depaerture, Hunsicker paints vibrant swirling organisms that reveal a cosmic discussion about the nature of all things. Rather than depict microscopic particles or cosmic bodies with pure scientific objectivity, Hunsicker's images are infused with a life force of joyful exhuberance.Publication Of our spiritual strivings: W.E.B. Du Bois at 150(2015-01-01)Publication Science and Technology of Library Science: Past, Present, and Future(2023-01-01)The exhibit showcases objects, images and explanatory text that tells the stories of how the technology library workers use, from catalog cards to cloud computing, has changed over time. Curated by Jaime Taylor.Publication Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health(2023-01-01)This traveling banner exhibition and companion website tell stories of people who work on a wide range of issues—from community health to conflict, disease to discrimination—to improve health in their areas and beyond. Around the world, communities, in collaboration with scientists, activists, governments, and international organizations, are taking up the challenge to prevent disease and improve quality of life. Making a World of Difference highlights how powerful our shared desire for health can be—a unifying force across political and national divides.Publication A Recipe for Saving Seeds(2023-01-01)The exhibit consists of a series of ten seed-saving recipe cards. Each card provides easy, step-bystep instructions for saving seeds of specific flowers, herbs, and vegetables, with images and text.Publication Engineering@75(2022-01-01)“ENGINEERING@75” marks the 75th anniversary of the College of Engineering. Stroll through a collection of archival documents and photographs spanning the decades from 1947 to the present day. Reflect upon the events, research, everyday moments, and people that have helped shape the college. The exhibit includes a special highlight of the Wind Energy Center’s 50th Anniversary. The Wind Energy Center (WEC) at UMass Amherst is the country’s first academic wind energy research center. For over 50 years the campus has been conducting research, education and training in wind energy. WEC performs cutting edge research, shapes the vision for offshore wind, and educates the next generation of leaders.Publication Unseen Labor(2022-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries hosts an exhibit, “Unseen Labor,” can be viewed through May 2022, in the Science and Engineering Library in Lederle Lowrise, Floor 2, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The exhibit is a library community-organizing art project created by UMass Amherst metadata librarian Ann Kardos, and consists of cross stitch and embroidery pieces that share stories about libraries, the theme of unseen labor, the work that metadata librarians do, projects they are proud of, and more. The exhibit represents approximately 60 creators from a wide variety of libraries: academic, public, museum libraries, and archives, from all over the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. Metadata work is not typically seen as creative work, but rather work that is guided by national standards, best practices, policies, and guidelines in order to produce and maintain standard records for library resources that can be shared between institutions and vendors. Metadata librarians create and maintain millions of library resources for patrons, with whom they may rarely (if ever) interact, and they provide valuable backend support for their public-facing colleagues. The project asked library metadata creators to examine stories and experiences that would center their unseen labor, both physical and emotional. A companion eBook exhibition catalogue will be available. Ann Kardos has been a metadata librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 2017, where she works as part of a small team of dedicated individuals supporting access to approximately seven million records in the Five College Catalog. Kardos learned how to cross stitch as a child and took it up again during the pandemic for stress relief. In November 2021, she had an original embroidery piece on display at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, as part of the Badass Herstory exhibit curated by artist and activist Shannon Downey, who goes by the name Badass Cross Stitch.Publication Botanicals: An Exploration of Wild and Cultivated Plants(2022-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries host an exhibit, “Botanicals: An Exploration of Wild and Cultivated Plants,” through Thursday, May 12, 2022, in the Mass Aggie Seed Library, in the Science and Engineering Library, Lederle Lowrise, Floor 2, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Botanicals” is an exhibition of original linoleum block prints by New Hampshire artist, Monica Rico. The collection will feature botanical prints and textiles, each hand-printed from hand-carved blocks. Monica Rico is a printmaker, organic farmer, local food system advocate, community organizer, and mom of boys. Originally on a science-based career path, it took her many years to get comfortable enough with the idea of making mistakes to allow herself to make art. She made her first block print in a workshop taught by a friend in the fall of 2018 and became consumed with the practice. Today, she has the privilege to homeschool her youngest son and make art as her full time occupation. She works from her home studio in Henniker, New Hampshire.Publication Writing the Landscape: Books from the Library of American Landscape History(2010-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries is hosting an exhibit “Writing the Landscape: Books from the Library of American Landscape History.” The exhibit features several books developed by the Library of American Landscape History (LALH) and photographs by noted landscape photographer Carol Betsch. The exhibition is on view from February 1 through May 20, 2010. The Library of American Landscape History is a nonprofit organization based in Amherst, MA, whose mission is to educate and promote thoughtful stewardship of the land. The award-winning LALH publishing program includes books, surveys, and reprints of classics in the field, such as the Book of Landscape Gardening by Frank Waugh, founder of the program of landscape architecture at UMass Amherst. Carol Betsch is the managing editor of UMass Press, with whom LALH maintains its primary publishing partnership. Image credit: Carol Betsch - West Gazebo before the Storm, Gwinn estate, Cleveland, OH. Gwinn, an important American estate of the Country Place Era, is featured in a recent LALH book, A Genius for Place.Publication The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art(2009-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries is hosting an exhibit “The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art” on the Lower Level of Du Bois Library through December 18, 2009. The exhibit features a behind-the-scenes look at the making of picture books by local authors and illustrators Leonard Baskin, Kathryn Brown, Corinne Demas, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Michelson, Dennis Nolan, Katy Schneider, and Jane Yolen. Featured in the exhibit are The Littlest Matryoshka by Corinne Demas and Kathryn Brown; The Perfect Wizard by Jane Yolen and Dennis Nolan; Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest and Katy Schneider; and Ten Times Better by Richard Michelson and Leonard Baskin.Publication Publication Natural History Prints(2009-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries will host “Natural History Prints” an exhibit of photographs by John Green, through May 3, 2009, at the Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library, Lederle Lowrise, UMass Amherst. The exhibit consists of 14 photographic prints, taken with a film camera using natural light. Most of the subjects were shot locally and represent the four seasons. Inspired by the simple and abundant beauty of the natural world, John Green has been photographing nature for over thirty years. Trained as an interpretive naturalist, he is skilled in bird and plant identification, and an expert in “birding by ear.” Green has run a weeklong field school on nature photography for the Massachusetts Audubon Society for more than 15 years and leads photographic excursions all over the country. Green has been featured on the television series PBS Kids and his prints have been exhibited widely throughout Massachusetts. His slide shows have been presented from Maine to Florida. Green has lived in Western Massachusetts since 1972 where he frequently is found photographing the wilds of Quabbin Reservoir. “Natural light is my tool. Patience, diligence, and intimate knowledge of my subject matter are the keys to capturing nature on film,” says Green. “Often I photograph a subject over several years before I am satisfied.” For more information, see John Green's website.Publication Daniel Ellsberg: A Life in Truth(2022-01-01)The UMass Amherst Libraries host "Daniel Ellsberg: A Life in Truth," a physical and digital exhibit drawing from activist and truth teller Daniel Ellsberg’s vast collection of documents, photographs, and artifacts. The Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center acquired the collection in 2019. The exhibit is located in two locations in the W. E. B. Du Bois Library until September 2022. The exhibit documents Ellsberg’s 90-year life as an academic, activist, defendant, government contractor, Marine, pianist, Vietnam observer, and whistleblower. From his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s, to his education at the Cranbrook School, Harvard University, and the Marines; his work as a nuclear analyst at RAND; research for the U.S. Defense Department in Vietnam; and transformation to full-time activist following his release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971; the exhibit illustrates the cinematic sweep of Ellsberg’s life in fine detail. Selected digitized versions of material from the exhibit are also available via the Ellsberg Archive Project website, where it will be accessible to the public beyond its physical exhibit space.Publication Designing a Sustainable Future(2009-01-01)“Designing a Sustainable Future,” an exhibit of selected works from graduate and undergraduate students of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, is on display through Sept 11, 2009, in the Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library at UMass Amherst (Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise, Floor 2). “Designing a Sustainable Future” consists of selected student works from research, community service learning, and studio projects in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP). It focuses on themes of remediation, renewal, human experience on the land, and sustainability as an art form. The exhibit contains maps, plans, photographs, drawings, data, and a 3-D model, and covers sites around the Pioneer Valley as well as in Belize and England. The creators of “Designing a Sustainable Future” define sustainability as “caring for and shaping our environment with respect to ecology to build a viable economy that can expand and establish social equity.”Publication All Roads Lead Back to Amherst(2009-01-01)“All Roads Lead Back to Amherst,” an exhibit of nature photographs by Annie (Fournier) Tiberio Cameron ’73, will be on display from September 15 through December 11, 2009, in the Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library at UMass Amherst (Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise, Floor 2). Annie Tiberio Cameron came to UMass in 1969 to study Wildlife Biology. She has a B.S. in Environmental Education and did graduate work at North Adams State College, UMass Amherst, and Westfield State College. Tiberio Cameron has been a photography instructor at Bay Path College, Massachusetts Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, UMass Amherst, among others. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as New England. Her work has been published in Sierra Magazine, Mass. Audubon's Sanctuary Magazine, and other publications. “I make 35mm color images that help me to reveal what I feel about the natural world: its colors shapes, textures, lines, and forms,” says Tiberio. “My background in science supports my visual expressions on film where my goal is to make a connection between myself and the observer. I try to make familiar and simple things in nature acquire the elegance that I see through my lenses.”