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Metaphorical Cities - Behind The Cover Art, Elana Melissa Hill

The STEAM Journal

This is a reflection on how cities function like organisms. An artist's interpretation of the spaces surrounding them.

Metaphorical Cities, Elana Melissa Hill

The STEAM Journal

This is a reflection on how cities function like organisms. An artist's interpretation of the spaces surrounding them.

About Time: Visualizing Time At Burning Man, Gordon D. Hoople, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Parde, Diane Hoffoss, Max Mellette, Rachel Nishimura, Virginia Gutman

The STEAM Journal

About Time was a 30 foot long, 3000 pound wooden sundial that went up in flames at Burning Man 2019. The piece reflected on the role time plays in our lives. We organize our lives around time—are enslaved to time—and yet we know so little about it. Physicists and philosophers continue to grapple with deep puzzles of time—Is time a fundamental quantity, independent of human actions or observations or is it an emergent property of our perception? This installation projected time using two sundials: a horizontal dial which swept time out across the desert floor and an …

Krill Watching, Michael J. Leach

The STEAM Journal

This is a concrete, or visual, found poem about the scientific activity of observing krill in the deep sea. I discovered this concrete found poem in prose that Nicol (2019, p. 200) quoted from Ommanney (1938).

• Nicol, S 2019 ‘Oceans of krill’, in B Nogrady (ed) The best Australian science writing 2019, Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.
• Ommanney, FD 1938 South latitude, London: Longmans, Green & Co.

“Putting The Arts In Their Place”: A Case For Map-Making In Art History, Marco Jalla

Artl@s Bulletin

The use of cartography in art history is less than common. Because of its link to the old artistic geography (Kunstgeographie) once used to defend nationalist issues in Nazi Germany, it fell into disfavor until the 1960s and 1970s, when maps regained some attention from a new generation of art historians. Mapping arts indeed proves to be very useful to visualize and organize large dataset and to formulate new hypotheses, both as a descriptive and a prospective tool. The challenge we proposed to the authors was to use maps for questioning the territorial logics, the centers and peripheries of the …

Visual Contagions, The Art Historian, And The Digital Strategies To Work On Them, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

How do images and styles spread out over time and place? This article presents how art historians can use digital methods to study “visual contagions”– the visual part of globalization: how images circulate, as material artefacts (paintings, sculptures, engravings, etc.…) or in reproductions (in illustrated periodicals, in photography, or on the internet…), through which channels (cultural, geographical, political…) and according to which visual logics. It sketches the new possibilities offered by deep learning and artificial intelligence algorithms applied to images, to better understand the epidemiology of visual diffusions. This Paper is also an opportunity to assess 10 years of digital …

Road To A Legacy Of Educational Excellence Final Grant Report, 2019

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This collection contains a final grant report, four DVDs, and two booklets for the Road to Educational Excellence funded by the Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant.

New Freedom Baptist Church (Malvern, Ark.) Programs, 2014-2019

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This collection consists of church programs from the New Freedom Baptist Church between 2014 and 2019. They feature speakers, special events, musicians for the day, and hymns.

Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (Ahpp) State Review Board Meeting Reports, 2007-2019

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This collection contains meeting reports of the Arkansas Historic Preservation State Review Board from 2007 to 2019. The Review Board Meeting reports contain information on narrative and budget summaries of projects on which the Arkansas Historic Preservation has worked and is currently working.

Friends Of The Arkansas State Archives Records, 2019

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This collection contains a board member list, a board meeting agenda, board meeting minutes, and a treasurer's report for the Friends of the Arkansas State Archives from 2019.

Arkansas Governor's Mansion Collection, 1960-2019

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This collection contains various material related to the Arkansas Governor's Mansion from 1960 to 2019 including printed ephemera from events at the mansion, correspondence, photographs, news clippings related to various governors and the mansion, and other administrative documents. It includes material from the administrations of Orval Faubus to Asa Hutchinson.

Aesthetic Club Of Little Rock Records, 1883-2019

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The Aesthetic Club of Little Rock records consist of the bylaws and constitution, executive committee meetings, minutes of club meetings, papers presented, and yearbooks. Photographs of past presidents are also included.

Pax Yearbook 2019, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Pax, 1927; 1946-2020

Yearbook of Subiaco Abbey and Academy for the 2018-2019 school year.

Preserving Our History/Archives: Arkansas Baptist College Final Grant Report, 2019

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This collection contains a final grant report for the Arkansas Baptist College Preserving Our History/ Archives project, which installed and dedicated a marker to Dr. Elias Camp Morris, one of the founding fathers of Arkansas Baptist College. The project was funded in part by the Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant. The collection also contains photographs from the marker dedication, an event announcement, and programs.

Oxford American Southern Music Collection, 2003-2019

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This collection contains magazine issues and CDs from Oxford American Magazine's Southern Music Series.

Master Builders: African American Architecture On Lakeport Plantation Final Grant Report, 2019

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This collection contains one final grant report related to the Alex Foundation project, Master Builders: African American Architecture on Lakeport Plantation final report, funded in part by the Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant.

Arkansas Food Hall Of Fame Papers, 2017-2019

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This collection contains nomination information and ceremonial materials from the 2017 Arkansas Food Hall of Fame event and an induction ceremony program from the 2019 event.

Arkansas Department Of Agriculture Century Farm Program Records, 2012-2019

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This collection contains the records from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture Century Farm Program between the years of 2012 and 2019. Each folder contains the records for a single farm application and includes letters from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture to applicants concerning application submissions and acceptance into the program. The application records also contain genealogical information for the farm owners in addition to land deeds. The collection is arranged in eight series, one per application year and further arranged alphabetically by county name in subseries. Each folder is labeled with an applicant's farm name and original order from the …

Lake View "Heritage Space" Final Grant Report, 1954-2019

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This collection contains a final grant report for Lake View "Heritage Space" grant project. The project was funded through the Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant Program, administered by the Black History Commission of Arkansas. The Black History Commissioner of Arkansas (BHCA) was created by Act 1233 of 1991 and is composed of seven members appointed by the governor with approval of the Senate. The BHCA is charged with preserving the history of black Arkansans and black communities in Arkansas. This commission also encourages research of Arkansas’ black history and promotes teaching black history in Arkansas schools. Grants are awarded from …

Flora Annie Steel: The Walter Scott Of The Punjab?, Juliet Shields

Studies in Scottish Literature

Suggests that Flora Ann Steel Steel’s late Victorian historical novels about India, usually discussed in terms of gender, race, or postcolonial criticism, are more usefully compared to Walter Scott than to Rudyard Kipling, arguing that Steel's novels, like Scott’s about Scotland, formalize an understanding of historical change that derives from the Scottish Enlightenment.

The Horse In Premodern European Culture, Anastasija Ropa

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

This volume provides a unique introduction to the most topical issues, advances, and challenges in medieval horse history. Medievalists who have a long-standing interest in horse history, as well as those seeking to widen their understanding of horses in medieval society will find here informed and comprehensive treatment of chapters from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, legal, economic and military history, urban and rural history, art and literature. The themes range from case studies of saddles and bridles, to hippiatric treatises, to the medieval origins of dressage. It shows the ubiquitous – and often ambiguous – role of the horse …

Oldbuck And Ochiltree: Scott, History, And The Antiquary’S Doppelgänger, John Williams

Studies in Scottish Literature

Argues that, in The Antiquary, Scott creatively explores and reworks earlier literary forms, particularly Shakespearean and Gothic tropes (double identity, hero/anti-hero, tainted familial relationships, shape-shifting), injecting a note of sober realism into Romantic self-indulgence, and contributing significantly to the evolution of subsequent European literary culture, just as his own work was reworked by others.

Maestros Of Ministry: Their Legacy In The Department Of Music And Worship, David Matson, Sandra S. Yang, Austin M. Doub

Cedrus Press Publications

This book presents a brief history of the Cedarville University Department of Music and Worship through the lens of the lives of six current or retired faculty members from 1965 to 2019. The featured Maestros are David Matson, Lyle Anderson, Charles Pagnard, Michael DiCuirci, Sr., Charles Clevenger, and Steven Winteregg. The biographies and history focus on the Maestros’ contributions to the Department and University in their devotion to service and ministry to students. The story reveals the sovereign hand of God in bringing each faculty member to the Department at just the right time to meet particular needs for critical …

Charles Engelberger Collection, 1939-2019

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This collection consists of material related to various Arkansas institutions and events, three books written about Arkansas, and two maps of Arkansas.

Scipio Africanus Jones Final Grant Report, 2018-2019

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This collection contains a final grant report, binder, poster, and three copies of the book, Scipio Africanus Jones: Both Intelligent and Wise, written by Pat Kienzle. It was completed as part of the Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant.

Civil War Resource Guide

Resource guides

This guide contains a selection of resoucers available at the Arkansas State Archives pertaining to the American Civil War. This is not a comprehensive guide, but provides a starting point for research.

‘...Arranged In A Fanciful Manner And In An Ancient Style’: The First Scenic Realisations Of Scott’S Work And The Desire For A New “Realism” On Scottish Stages, Barbara Bell

Studies in Scottish Literature

An illustrated essay examining the stage design and scenery in early dramatizations of Scott's fiction, specifically the designs by Alexander Nasmyth for versions of Scott's stage adaptations of Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian, in London in 1819 and in Edinburgh in 1820, arguing that the rise of scenic realism strengthened the relationship between the theatre and the broader population.

The Chartist Robin Hood: Thomas Miller’S Royston Gower; Or, The Days Of King John (1838), Stephen Basdeo

Studies in Scottish Literature

Walter Scott's reinvention in Ivanhoe (1819) of Robin Hood as an Anglo-Saxon freedom fihghter had a lasting impact on later portrayal's of the outlaw. Thomas Miller's novel Royston Gower (1838) reworks Scott's idea of racial conflict between Saxons and Normans to cast Robin Hood as a Saxon freedom fighter to serve the Chartist cause. Where Scott’s portrayal served a conservative agenda of reconciliation, leading to one nation under a just and benevolent king, Miller draws parallels between Norman oppressors and the early Victorian political elite, between Saxon poverty and 19^th century hunger, and between the Saxon hope of a …

Arkansas Foodways Movement Resource Guide

Resource guides

This guide contains a selection of resources available at the Arkansas State Archives pertaining to the Arkansas foodways movement. This is not a comprehensive guide, but provides a starting point for research.

Cemetery Resource Guide

Resource guides

This guide contains a selection of resources available at the Arkansas State Archives pertaining to cemetery research. This is not a comprehensive guide, but provides a starting point for research.