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Photography Whatever We Want It To Be, Jyl A. Kelley

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

Contemporary photography has evolved from an orphaned art into a mainstay for global imaging culture. Today anyone can make a picture or image, manipulate it, montage it, and publish it on the Internet. Photographic art practice will always answer back to its history but more importantly and inherent in its digital form and distribution, photographic art is responding to the modern ubiquity of the digital image and digital age.

Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 746. Ciphering book containing problems using the British pound system, which also contains accounts of John Hannum, Jr., and Richard Hannum, and writings of Penelope Hannum, Logan County, Kentucky. Also clippings, chiefly from newspapers of Russellville, Kentucky, 1820-1860.

Rowan Family Letters (Sc 745), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 745. Letters of the Rowan family, Bardstown, Kentucky, which include letter co-signed by John Rowan, concerning a Naval Academy appointment, 1828; letter to Rebecca Rowan about her son William passing his bar exam, 1859; letter to Rebecca from son John, 1862; letter from S. R. Rowan to brother John, 1861. Includes a Rowan family genealogical chart.

Sumpter, William Cullin, 1862-1958 (Sc 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 748. Membership book of Aeolian Lodge Number 51 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Bowling Green, Kentucky, retained by William Cullin Sumpter. Information includes name, residence, occupation, and age of each applicant.

Bate, Richard Alexander, 1871-1956 (Sc 2625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2625. Narrative poem by Richard Alexander Bate, Louisville, Kentucky, written to honor the life and career of Revolutionary War sailor Commodore Richard Taylor.

Mccormack, Arthur Thomas, 1872-1943 (Sc 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 749. Correspondence between sculptor Charles Henry Niehaus and Dr. Arthur Thomas McCormack, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding statues of Henry Clay and Ephraim McDowell completed by Niehaus and placed in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. The letters also discuss a memorial to Jane Crawford, McDowell's famous patient.

Orr, Jennie Miller (Sc 2624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2624. Paper by Jennie Miller Orr titled "Captain Ed Porter Thompson." Also include a 1987 letter from Frances J. Fletcher, Orr's niece, explaining the paper.

Brown-Hodges Papers (Sc 754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 754. Photocopies of Sumner County, Tennessee, deeds, 1813-1888 (7), and land surveys, 1813, 1875 (2), of the Brown and Hodges families. Also, genealogical information of the Hodges family (1).

Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 2623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2623. Paper by Benjamin Franklin Procter titled, “Dr. Leslie Waggener,” a biography of an English Professor at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky. Also includes a three-page farewell address delivered by Waggener in 1883.

Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, And Gender As Useful Categories In Environmental History, Nancy Unger

History

This book is an effort to explain these kinds of extreme gendered divisions and to offer an enriched understanding of the powerful interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender. The synergy produced by that interplay has been significant throughout American history, but it cannot be adequately understood and appreciated as long as those fields are discussed as discrete entities. The fields of gender and environment are growing, but scholars have seldom joined them together in analysis or heeded historian Carolyn Merchant's call that a gendered perspective be added to conceptual frameworks in environmental history.5 They have not offered a …

Blewett, Benjamin Turner, 1820-1911 (Sc 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 747. Letter, 18 April 1857, from Benjamin Turner Blewett, president of Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, to mathematics professor D. W. Hoyt, Brighton, Massachusetts, recruiting him for that position and describing the school and the town. Includes an illustrated school brochure.

Elke Krystufek And The Obessive Production Of Person, Melanie E. Emerson

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

Elke Krystufek’s artistic practice has centered almost wholly on duplicate and substitute images of herself, specifically emphasizing the female body and its position within the discourses of art history and gendered identity. While an earlier generation of feminist artists used their bodies as subject and object of their work in order to critique stereotypes and forcefully dismantle barriers that excluded women from the public sphere or labeled them objects of desire, Krystufek uses similar tactics to point to the fact there is no longer a private space. Identity is not solely the property of an individual, but rather an open …

Re-Purposing The Elderly Body, Charlotte H. Wellman

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

In cross-disciplinary scholarship, an emerging “trash” discourse considers the implications of excessive production and consumption and their inevitable corollary—the sense that all things are disposable. Nature has been reconfigured as a landfill, an artificial landscape of discarded matter. Objects possess a shrinking lifespan, quickly replaced by a newer upgrade. Driven by a need for constant rejuvenation, consumers fetishize the new and dismiss obsolescent products. I wish to posit aging – more specifically, the elderly female body—against the “landscape” of trash in order to engage its vocabulary of entropy and decay as well as to deploy the repurposing of discarded materials …

Revitalizing Cities: Adaptive Reuse Of Historic Structures, Sara E. Sharpe

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

Adaptive reuse is employed when revitalizing an existing infrastructure while maintaining important aspects of the cultural architectural heritage and promoting sustainability. The option to turn away from older structures and build new is a large problem in cities such as Detroit. Historic preservationists are trained to observe a structure’s potential before walking away. Meanwhile interior designers obtain the skills to rejuvenate such buildings for a new use. Case studies have shown the benefits of these two professions teaming up to apply adaptive reuse on historic structures for modern purposes. By studying the creative space planning methods and historic preservations standards …

Wind Symphony & Symphonic Band, October 5, 2012 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Shauna Collins Brown

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Kizer Mcneal

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Intimate Distance: Negotiating The Urban/Suburban Divide, Whitney L. Sage

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

As a native of Farmington Hills, a suburb thirty minutes outside of Detroit, I have always had a peculiar relationship with the city. As a child I visited Detroit often for family outings to the DIA and Tiger Stadium. Hours later we would be driving on I-96 returning west. All of my early memories of Detroit are happy and warm, however they are seen through the rose-colored glass of wide cultural and geographic separation from the city. In this way, my artwork, which discusses Detroit’s past and present through literal representation, radiates nostalgia and expresses both a sense of intimacy …

The Prosthetic Aesthetic: An Art Of Anxious Extensions, Tiffany Funk

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

The difficulty in ascertaining how the “prosthetic” functions across disciplines derives from the sometimes parallel, and often antithetical definitions given for what it constitutes. Many art historians use the prosthetic to illustrate psychoanalytical methodologies, largely ignoring physical technological devices, cybernetic body augmentation and its social effects – subjects expounded upon by many influential media and cybernetic theorists such as Norbert Wiener, Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway and N. Katherine Hayles. Prosthetics are not merely psychic trauma nor virtual signifier, but material artifacts marking autonomy, ability and disability, amputation and extension. A re-evaluation of prosthetics in contemporary aesthetics brings us closer to …

Creating With Code: Critical Thinking And Digital Foundations, Brad Tober

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

While students are often attracted to opportunities to learn how to use software applications commonly employed by digital artists and designers, the fact remains that time spent on purely software-based instruction in the classroom is time that could arguably be better spent on exploring the broader conceptual issues of making digital work. This presentation begins to frame an argument for the comprehensive integration of code-based technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Processing/Java, openFrameworks/C++, and Objective-C, into digital art and design foundation curricula. This integration holds the potential to position code-based technologies as new media for teaching art and design alongside …

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 14, October 4, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 515. Letter, 17 January 1926, from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mrs. Grayot? giving permission to reprint some of his poetry in the magazine "The Club Woman." Also includes some of his comments concerning poetry.

Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text of diary (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 517. Photocopy of a typescript diary kept by David Barrow, a pioneer Baptist minister, during his trip to Kentucky and the Northwest Territory of Ohio. He visited family members, often preached at religious gatherings, and observed peace negotiations between the United States and various Indian tribes at Fort Greenville. Beginning in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, he traveled through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Northwest Territory, Eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina, before returning to his home in Virginia.

Becoming: An Evening Of Short Plays, Carrie D. Applegate

Department of Theatre Arts Programs (UP 620)

Program for Becoming: An Evening of Short Plays, produced October 2012 as part of the 2012-2013 Production Season. Plays included: Watermelon Boats by Wendy MacLaughlin, Three Guys and a Brenda by Adam Bock, Bondage by Henry David Hwang, Medea by Christopher During & Wendy Wasserstein, and Come and Go by Samuel Beckett

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Jazz 12.0, Martin Saunders

All Performances

No abstract provided.

How To Produce Articulate Artists, Peter J. Barr Phd, Christine Reising

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

This twenty-minute Powerpoint presentation will describe the team-taught, year-long Foundations Core Concepts Program at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. It has been in place since 2006 and has successfully integrated a course previously called "Language of Art" (taught by an art historian) with hands-on studio assignments previously taught in a stand-alone design course (taught by a studio professor). We have found that this hybrid approach is extremely effective in developing sensitive and articulate art majors who are prepared to integrate design concepts into all of their artworks and to analyze and describe eloquently both personal and historical works of …

Snapshots, Clichés And Simulacra, Millee Tibbs

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

In his essay “Photography,” Kracauer critiques the abundance of photographic images in illustrated newspapers stating, “The blizzard of photographs betrays an indifference toward what the things mean.”[i] Current digital imaging technologies have turned this blizzard into a complete whiteout. Never before have people had such access to image-making technologies and the ease with which the images are now disseminated. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the snapshot has evolved little and remains a visual cliché - a banal vessel of personal sentimentality.

In this paper I will discuss the use and fetishization of snapshot images in both my …

Becoming: An Evening Of Short Plays, Carrie D. Applegate

Department of Theatre Arts Posters

Poster for Becoming: An Evening of Short Plays, produced October 2012 as part of the 2012-2013 Production Season. Plays included: Watermelon Boats by Wendy MacLaughlin, Three Guys and a Brenda by Adam Bock, Bondage by Henry David Hwang, Medea by Christopher During & Wendy Wasserstein, and Come and Go by Samuel Beckett.

The Grizzly, October 4, 2012, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Larissa Coyne, Rosemary Clark, Alexa Lamontagne, Chris Rountree, Courtney Scott, Christine Dobisch, Jillian Goldstein, Amanda Frekot, Austin Fox, Jordan Demcher, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Campus Crime Rates • Banners Call for Student Power • UC Prepares to Vote • Professors up for Tenure • Resumania Offers Resume Aid • Phoenixville To-Dos • Marisa Roman Joins Ursinus Faculty • Grad School Guru Returns to Offer Tips and Advice • Opinion: We Should Distance Ourselves from Technology; Give CAB Events a Chance; Grizzly Staff Editorial • 3-0 UC Rugby Looks to Extend Streak • UC Recap: Mixed Week for the Bears • Coach Profile: Joe Groff, Volleyball

Divided Maryland: Antietam 150th Interpretive Talk, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

A few weeks ago, I spent an amazing weekend interpreting the Dunker Church. Not many of you were able to visit that amazing place on that amazing weekend.

For those of you out there who didn't get to see my talks that weekend, or for those of you who would like to live them again, check out this MP3 recording of the presentation, with added music and sound. [excerpt]