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Art Shows and Exhibits are Here for You in the Norlin Library!
Stoa Gallery (east lobby, SW)
(also second floor SW Science Alcove Gallery and flanking 2nd floor bay window)
Ray Tomasso -- Master papermaker and paper artist: works in cast paper and artist book. Also, “Erosion and Tradition,” a mixed media work displaying traditional book crafts in a single over-sized volume (second floor SW Science Alcove Gallery).
Stoa Gallery (SW)
Lines in Color on Color from Corners, Sides, and Centers to Specific Points on a Grid by Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Six silkscreens on paper on loan from the CU Art Museum’s Polly and Mark Addison Collection. Scattered and abstract patterns of lines against grid backgrounds create a sense of three dimensions.
Norlin Commons (NE)
Celestial Light: Reflections on the Journey Home: an exploration of light and being in the paintings of former library staff member William Wallace Carson (June 19th 1948 - August 4th 1990).
Laughing Goat / Coffee Shop (NE)
From An Academic Perspective: canvasses featuring acrylic applied with scrapers, palette knives, or various household items by Dennis Stowell.
Vice/Verse: Travel narrative, timeline and photo essay documenting a Boulder to Belgrade cross-cultural collaboration of musicians and artists, using digital arts to create international communities.
East Underground Gallery
Bikes Around the World: An international collaboration of photographers showcasing the diversity of cycling around the world. Presented by the CU Sustainable Transportation Program to offer a taste of the world of wheels and spokes. New photos are rotated in and out over time.
West Underground Gallery
Wandering in the World of Chinese Characters Exhibit: Images and books from the University Libraries East Asian collection trace the history and adaptations of early writing in China and Japan, which evolved into distinctive forms of functionality and beauty. Created with funding from the Center for Asian Studies and the University Libraries in conjunction with the Center for Humanities and the Arts 2010-2011 "China" theme.
East side 2nd floor landing exhibit
The legacy of two founding professors of CU-Boulder anthropology -- Omer Stewart: cultural anthropologist, social activist, defender of Indian religious practices, founder of the CU Department of Anthropology; and Joe Ben Wheat: archaeologist, teacher, developer of southwestern textile classification techniques, and first curator of anthropology at CU’s Museum of Natural History.
Science Library (SE stacks)
Related paintings by Andrew Violet and Lauren McKenzie. Violet embraces scenes with his own formless family of colors, while McKenzie represents a kinship between the animal-soul and the artist in which the meaning transcends the representation of the subject. More by Violet throughout the first floor from: “Existential Gatherings: Images from the Whole.”
Research Services, just south of interior bay window
Camellia: an original illustrated fairy tale by Nicholas and Jonathan Baldridge and Yelizaveta Baktin.
Art and Architecture Collection (W)
Animal Clusters: captivating series of animal forms emerging from patterns by former textile print designer, Bhagvati Khalsa.
Southeast stairwell 3rd floor landing and beyond
12 Vibrant Textures: Rebecca Jewell’s painting as game making, with “rules” of patterning and color, and color palettes from childhood video games.
Ventana Gallery (W)
Bright colors, riveting patterns, and musical allusion: the artistic skills and cultural commentary of Boulder painter, Louis DeAngelis (and additional DeAngelis pieces in the Triptych Gallery).
Triptych Gallery (NW)
Enigmatic paintings by Nicholas Baldridge (and more Baldridge pieces in the 3rd floor northwest hallway).
Norlin Library Galleries & Spaces
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