Welcome Brendane Tynes, our first ever Collections Strategy Graduate Assistant! Brendane is a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in the PhD program in Anthropology at Columbia University.
Library News
Open Doors, the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning’s inaugural exhibition, will be taken down on Saturday, March 14th.
This week we added zines about grandmothers, zine fests, Kate Middleton, ways to conserve resources, kittens, visiting Portland (Oregon), IMATS, heart unfelt apologies, riot grrrl, mental health in library staff, and a queer teen about to start school at Hampshire in the early 1990s.
We have 3 Emerging Filmmaker Mentorship Program participants for Spring 2020, for the Media Center!
This week we added zines about snorkeling with eels, mental health in the library profession, zine life (with zine reviews). We also cataloged 11 zines made for Wendy Schor-Haim's First Year Seminar on witches.
Join Sustainability & the Design Center for Rebear's 2020 Design Challenge! Deadline extended to March 22nd.
The show, Making the Cut, is open until March 22, 2020.
In keeping with our theme this semester, IMATS now has equipment for music makers!
Members of the Shange Magic Project received $5,000 for their idea The Love Space Demands: Sharing the Words of Ntozake Shange in the Barnard Library, which will support the installation of excerpts from the work of Ntozake Shange ’70 on walls around the Milstein Center.
Alicia Peaker will join the Barnard Library Teaching, Learning and Digital Scholarship department as Digital Scholarship Librarian on March 30.
This week we added zines about a year in the life of an artist, screen time, summer in Columbus Ohio, menopause, neighborhood girls, going out vs. staying in, public pancakes, mothering and daughtering, teaching college in Spokane, meanderings, making stuff, zine librarians and pedagogy, along with short stories from Sydney, Australia.
Congrats to the Movement Lab's Guy de Lancey who has been nominated for Best Cinematography at the RapidLion 2020 Film Festival for his work on the film "Gat In Die Muur (Hole in the Wall)".
Join the Independent Filmmaker Project on February 25th at 7pm for a masterclass with Lance Oppenheim, a 23 year old filmmaker whose documentary Some Kind of Heaven (prod. by Darren Aronofsky) premiered at Sundance 2020.
This week we added zines about queer sexuality, community care with regard to work burnout, what men seem to be like, witches and witchcraft, insomnia, dissociation, sewing and fashion, how to abort a fetus, self-care for introverts, the show Once Upon a Time, depressive behaviors in high school (e.g., cutting and bulimia) and poutine.
Denise Mantey ‘21 and Martha Tenney will be speaking at the. Project STAND Symposium at ASU on February 28. They’re going to talk about the experience of creating an exhibit (together with Maat Bates ‘21) celebrating and reflecting on 50 years of BOSS.
"Finding Fellini," directed and designed by the Movement Lab's Guy de Lancey and written and performed by Megan Metrikin, will be performed at The Kraine Theater February 21st, 23rd, & 25th! Guy's work on "Finding Fellini" won Outstanding Set Design and Outstanding Sound Design at MITF and Best Production Design at United Solo Festival. Tickets.