Say Hello to MARCO!
Yes, as introduced at the staff meeting on Monday, the Mint Art Research Catalog Online is up and running and available to staff. Everyone with a network login should have a shortcut to MARCO on their desktop. Please give us feedback - any problems, suggestions, questions - just let us know!
MARCO has a name - but no face!
As a way to make MARCO more memorable, the Library is sponsoring a contest to give MARCO a face! MARCO's "face" could be a logo, a character, a cartoon . . . you pick! Actually, we pick . . . you create. So, sharpen your pencils and give MARCO a face! Entries should be submitted via email to joyce.weaver@mintmuseum.org or placed in the library mailbox. Prize to be announced soon!
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Back in the day, The Red Clay Reader was an "ahead of its time" journal that featured excellent writing by such folk as Fred Chappell, Doris Betts, Jack Kerouac, etc. but also art by then UNCC prof Maud Gatewood among others. This seminal journal lasted from 1964 to 1970 and the Mint Library now has the complete set of seven issues. Stuff in here just isn't anywhere else. Oh, and it was published right here in Charlotte.
Off the rack . . .
the magazine rack that is.
- Latest issue of School Arts (Vol. 107, No. 6, Feb 2008) features a page of links for resources on contemporary art for art educators. Links include ArtThink (www.sfmoma.org/artthink ) and Art Today (http://schools.walkerart.org:8083:arttoday/ ) - Good stuff!
- Great article on Jun Kaneko in Arts and Activities (Vol. 143, N. 1, Feb 2008) - I'm sending a copy down to MMCD! - with a link to more information and to obtain resources for teachers.
Here's the link: http://artsandactivities.com/ - Arthur C. Danto chimes in on the whole art v. craft thing in his lengthy article "Visionary Ceramics" in the latest issue of American Ceramics (15/2). Yes, a new issue of American Ceramics has actually arrived! I've made a copy of the article for the Jones Library; the journal goes to MMCD.
New Titles
- Danko-McGhee, Kathy. The Impact of Early Art Experiences on Literacy Development. Provides specific example activities and relates them to specific literacy development skills. Brilliant.
- Sanford Robinson Gifford [1823-1880] The catalog from an exhibition of the artist's work at the University of Texas Art Museum in 1970.
- Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists. Catalog from the Kohler Center exhibition - Fascinating examination and celebration of "outsider" art.
- Wiley, Kehinde. The World Stage - China. Wiley takes on the Cultural Revolution in his own inimitable style.
- Also, the 2008 editions of the Official Museum Directory and Who's Who in American Art are in!
