First book published by the library! With donated funds from The Ceramic Circle of Charlotte in memory of Leo Kohn, The Mint Museum Library has created and published Ceramic Notes: a Facsimilie Reproduction of class notes from lectures by Professor Edward Orton, Jr. with a Table of Contents by Leo Kohn. Many thanks to interns Rebecca Stockin and Maisie McParland for scanning the notebooks that were part of a gift from the American Ceramic Society! Come by the library and check it out!Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History - a great big wonderful book about Tim Rollins collaborative work with his Kids of Survival - making art and making history - featuring the Mint's painting on page 55!
American Modernism at The Art Institute of Chicago - Thank you to Friends of the Mint for this title in honor of Jonathan Stuhlman! - a gorgeous collection presented thoroughly.
Studio Pottery in Britain 1900-2005 by Jeffrey Jones - Just in time for our upcoming exhibition of the Grainer Collection in October!
Help Create the Future!
Participate in Upnext: The Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki from the IMLS. It's free to register. You, us, we are all invited to collaborate and share our ideas and expertise. The wiki will be open as of March 3 - go to http://imlsupnext.wikispaces.com/ to register. To get started, check out The Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide. The Upnext wiki project will last until May 12. If you would like more information, just see me in the library.
Jan/Feb issue of Antiques features an excellent article on Edward Middleton Manigault - whose work the museum is trying to acquire and is part of the Collections Campaign - on view now in the Dalton Gallery!
Crafts: the Magazine of Contemporary Craft reviews a fiber art exhibition in London featuring one of our FCAs (Favorite Craft Artists) - Tilleke Schwarz! The exhibition entitled "Beware of Embroidery" contains work by Tilleke as well as four other international fiber artists.
Christmas comes REALLY early: the library is fortunate to have received an incredible gift of books and journals from Daisy and Henry Bridges. Over two hundred items - a wealth of materials. Thank you so much!
Are we famous yet? MintWiki, our online exhibition resource, is featured in the book Handbook on Developing Curriculum Materials for Teachers: Lessons from Museum Education Partnerships Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2010) Woo-hoo!
FYI!
Top 50 Social Media Resources - Website Magazine
Though on this topic, a friend of mine just got back from the TED conference(the stinker) and said that Twitter was on the way out. So there's that. (PS: TED speakers this year included Jamie Oliver, Bill Gates, a wonderful artist Raghava KK who I'd never heard of before, and for some real ooohh-ahhh, Blaise Aguera y Arca and his demonstration of augmented reality maps - available now - online - bing.com maps. But the absolute best one: Temple Grandin - just watch it!
Some fun - Mint artists on film!
Nick Cave
Wayne Thiebaud
*2010, of course. And the "something wonderful" may not be the creation of a new planet, but the opening of MMU will definitely rock our world!
