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- Silkscreen poster shows drawing of pianist Nellie Mokatle during a performance in Gaborone. Background is black with text in white. Image is black and white. Center of poster has red ink. Dot of red ink in lower left corner. "Poster for exhibition of Graphic Work by Judy Seidman at the Gaborone National Museum in 1984; drawing of pianist Nellie Mokatle during performance in Gaborone."
- Date Issued:
- 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africana Posters Collection
- Description:
- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, centenarian Selma Hollander talks about coming to East Lansing in 1958 with her husband Stanley Hollander, a newly hired Michigan State University business professor. In order to remain active, Hollander says that she pursued her love of art by first earning a bachelor's degree and later a masters' at MSU. Hollander says that she and her husband were always avid supporters of the arts and attended every concert and gallery presentation on campus and that from their earliest days in East Lannsing, they were financial supporters of MSU in many different areas including art, music, Jewish studies, and museums. She says that she and her husband funded more than a dozen endowments at MSU and she speaks with particular pride about their work in the creation and support of Michigan State University' Wharton Performing Arts Center. Hollander says that her life has been intimately intertwined with MSU and that the University gave her and her husband a place to enjoy a meaningful and exciting life. The second of three oral history interviews with Selma Hollander.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Lily Woodruff, professor of art history and visual culture at Michigan State University, delivers a talk entitled "Art as combat sport: the Sociological Art Collective's populist aesthetics". Woodruff describes her research into an obscure group of artists in France in the 1970s known as the Sociological Art Collective. Woodruff describes French government efforts to promote French art and culture and the rebellion against those efforts by the artists who formed the Collective. She also identifies the member of the group and focuses on some unique projects they completed. Woodruff answers questions from the audience. She is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Terrie Wilson.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retired General Motors skilled tradesman and artist Tom Pierson presents a talk entitled "Metal Spinning: An Autoworker Skilled Trade and an Artist's Craft." Pierson talks about his career and training as a metal spinner for General Motors and explains the differences between spinning for General Motors and spinning as art. He discusses the imperfections in his work which buyers like but would have been unacceptable at GM, the tools of the trade, what it is like to spin various kinds of metals and what it has been like for him to create and sell pieces as an artist. Pierson is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Karin Zitzewitz, professor of art history at Michigan State University, delivers a talk entitled "#LOVEWINS: sly religiosity and queer politics in the secular museum". Zitzewitz describes how two artists and their works of art, steeped in religiosity, use the secular space of the art museum to prove the truth of love. Zitzewitz highlights the works of gay Hindu artist Bhupen Khakhar and gay Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Zitzewitz is introduced by Fine Arts Librarian Terrie Wilson. She answers questions from the audience. Part of the History of art new publication speaker series held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Announcement of a traveling lecture series on visual arts and culture in Nigeria held by the Institute of Visual Art and Culture
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Books Supplement
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review
- Description:
- A short annotated bibliography of art journals in Nigeria
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Books Supplement
- Description:
- Retired General Motors skilled tradesman and artist Tom Pierson presents a talk entitled "Metal Spinning: An Autoworker Skilled Trade and an Artist's Craft." Pierson talks about his career and training as a metal spinner for General Motors and explains the differences between spinning for General Motors and spinning as art. He discusses the imperfections in his work which buyers like but would have been unacceptable at GM, the tools of the trade, what it is like to spin various kinds of metals and what it has been like for him to create and sell pieces as an artist. Pierson is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Lily Woodruff, professor of art history and visual culture at Michigan State University, delivers a talk entitled "Art as combat sport: the Sociological Art Collective's populist aesthetics". Woodruff describes her research into an obscure group of artists in France in the 1970s known as the Sociological Art Collective. Woodruff describes French government efforts to promote French art and culture and the rebellion against those efforts by the artists who formed the Collective. She also identifies the member of the group and focuses on some unique projects they completed. Woodruff answers questions from the audience. She is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Terrie Wilson.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection