Waging Peace in Darfur
Dates: Mar 1, 2010 - Mar 31, 2010
Description: For the month of March, the Board of Programmers and the Phillips Memorial Library present a special exhibit from the Waging Peace organization. Waging Peace is a non-governmental organization that campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights abuses, with a particular focus on Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic.
This display is the result of a mission made by Waging Peace representative, Anna Schmitt, who travelled to eastern Chad to interview Darfur refugees and displaced Chadians. She handed out crayons and paper to children between ages 6 and 18 and asked them to draw their dreams for the future and their strongest memories. The results were an incredible collection of drawings.
This collection of illustrations from the rarely documented perspective of children who have witnessed genocide firsthand can be seen in the foyer of the library. These testimonies are proof of the everyday atrocities, which are occurring in Darfur, from a child's un-swayed and honest point of view. The drawings have been accepted by the international Criminal Court as contextual evidence of the crimes committed in Darfur. Take the time to visit and appreciate these incredible illustrations from a child's often unheard and unseen perspective.
PC Sports goes to the Funny Page
Exhibit Dates: January 18, 2010 - May 31, 2010
Description: Frank B. Lanning Jr. (1906-1987) is best known for his long career (1937 - 1982) as a sports cartoonist for the Providence Journal Company newspapers. The primary focus of his thousands of newspaper drawings and freelance illustrations was Rhode Island athletic teams and personalities.
He designed mascots and logos for their sports teams, as well as covers for sports publications and sporting events. He is credited with creating the logo - the Raging Rooster - for Bryant College, which appeared in 1948. He also coined the term "firehorse" for basketball and created the Ram cartoon of the University of Rhode Island's mascot. With his illustrations, he also honored many individuals connected with athletics at many of Rhode Island's colleges.
The drawings exhibited here are a sample of the more than 80 prints that Mr. Lanning presented to members of the P.C. community over the years. The complete collection is now preserved in the College Archives at Phillips Memorial Library.
Location: Phillips Memorial Library foyer
Sponsor: Providence College, Phillips Memorial Library - Special and Archival Collections Department.
Birds of 19th Century America
Dates: Jan 18, 2010 - May 31, 2010
Description: On display is Roger Tory Peterson's 17 lb. book, known as a Baby Elephant Folio, which has reproduced 435 plates of the original Audubon Double-Elephant folios. Completely reorganized and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson, who was America's best-known 20th century ornithologist, and issued with the full endorsement and cooperation of the Audubon Society, this volume is the first to rearrange the plates in a more scientific order. Peterson's fascinating introduction places Audubon in the context of the history of American ornithological art and also reproduces a wide sampling of the work of Audubon's notable predecessors and disciples, including Peterson's own justly famous paintings.
Accompanying Peterson's reproduction of Audubon's work is Studer's Popular Ornithology. Often classified as the "Poor Man's Audubon, Jacob Henry Studer (1840-1904), printer and publisher, utilized Chromolithography, (the colored printed lithograph), opposed to the hand-colored print, as an affordable means of capturing both the brilliant plumage and delicate shading of the birds drawn in their natural surroundings by Theodore Jasper, Doctor and amateur Ornithologist.
These two publications represent the works of two of America's greatest bird illustrators during the 19th century. Each week during the exhibit a new page will be turned from each volume to allow viewers the opportunity to see as many illustrations as possible from each book.
Location: Phillips Memorial Library
The Sketch Books of Jackson Pollock in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dates: Jan 18, 2010 – May 31, 2010
Description: The sketch books on view here, the originals of which are held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , date from the late 1930’s to 1941 and represent the influence that “Renaissance and Baroque masters such as El Greco and Rubens” had on Jackson Pollock.
Pollock began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students' League, New York , under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s he worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters (Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros) and by certain aspects of Surrealism. By the 1960s Jackson was generally recognized as the most important figure in the most important movement, known as Abstract Expressionism, of this century in American painting.
During the exhibit a new sketch from each notebook will be presented periodically to allow viewers the opportunity to see as many of Jackson ’s sketches as possible over the length of the exhibit.
prepared 03-04-2010