Music at Collins Library –Please join us for some violin in the library reading room!

Friday, Feb. 18, 2011
3 -3:30 p.m.
Collins Memorial Library

Artist Talk/Poetry Reading:
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7-9 p.m., Library 020.
“Printer & Poet: In Collaborative Spirit” with May Day Press proprietor Catherine Alice Michaelis & local poet Anne Spiers.

Catherine Alice Michaelis has collaborated with local poet Ann Spiers on several May Day Press publications. Together they will discuss the creative process of artist and writer collaboration and the synergy created from the intersection of these two fields.

Quintessence: The Ethereal and Material That Inspire the May Day Press
Catherine Alice Michaelis has long been inspired by plants to create artists’ books and prints. Passionate for the green world, Michaelis’ work has traveled from mayflowers to maypoles to pole stars to pentagonal symmetry. In this show she shares a selection from 19 years of letterpress printing and book design. Her colorful work uses letterpress printing, often combined with other printing techniques, along with skillful paper engineering that has become the hallmark of this Washington artist’s work.

Show runs Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011- Friday, April 14, 2011

Opening Reception:
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Refreshments provided.

The Collins Library honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., great leader of the Civil Rights movement, and nonviolent crusader against segregation, bias and the racial injustices due to racism in education, housing, employment and public accommodations. The library will remain open on Martin Luther King national holiday, Monday, January 17, 2011.

Learn more about Dr. King and the national day of service: http://www.mlkday.gov or library resource – Oxford African American Studies Center.

Happy Holidays from Collins library staff and have a wonderful break! See you back in Spring Semester 2011!

This coming new year is the 25th anniversary of celebrating
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For this special occasion the celebration will be held in Schneebeck Concert Hall on Monday, January 17th at 7pm!

Dear students: You deserve a hug today! So come to the library and help yourself to a Hershey’s milk chocolate kiss hugged by swirly white cream to sooth your nerves! In the midst of holiday craze, we know you’re living through an even greater event – Finals week. You’re in a state of panic writing papers and studying long hours – maybe going days without sleep, living on caffeine, junk food, and adrenalin. Enjoy some sweet relief with this little reminder of holiday spirit.

Did you know chocolate can reduce anxiety and stress?  Read more on dark chocolate.

Image from www.hersheys.com

24/7: Collins library will be open all night Dec. 12-16 to help you prepare for finals week!  Be sure and take a study break with some delicious free tea downstairs by the hot water tap area in the LIBRARY BREAK ZONE! Also, get your coffee fix during finals week, supplied by Dining and Conference Services, available for $0.50 cents from approximately 8:30 p.m.-2:00 a.m. Sunday-Thursday.  Bring your own COVERED container to support sustainability!  Exact change appreciated.

Good luck!

In support of National Hunger Week, Collins Memorial Library and Spirituality, Services, and Social Justice are co-sponsoring Food for Fines. Pay off your library fines with food instead of cash, November 15-28. Donate to a worthy cause AND clean up your library debt at the same time. Bring in 1 can of food and we will waive $1.00 of your library fines.
That’s right! $1 per can!

• One – 6 ounce can or larger = $1.00 of fines. (up to $20 waived)
• Bring cans to the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library.
• Only non-perishable, un-dented, and labeled cans will be accepted.
• (Additional donations are welcome.)
• Canned food accepted for fines on returned items only,
• (not for replacement fees of lost items.)

All canned food will be donated to local food banks.
Hunger Week alacarte link

[Note! 1:30-3:30 p.m. – Participate in an information display of artists’ books! (See bottom for more information!)]

No Woman Has Ventured As Far: The Art and Adventures of Abby Williams Hill

Sat. Nov. 20, 2010
3 – 4 p.m.
Collins Library, Rm. 020
University of Puget Sound

As part of the City of Tacoma’s Art at Work: Tacoma Arts Month, Collins Memorial Library at University of Puget Sound will host Karen Haas, historian, educator, and award-winning living history performer in No Woman Has Ventured As Far: The Art and Adventures of Abby Williams Hill.

Tacoma, Wash. – Award-winning historian, educator, and living history performer Karen Haas will bring landscape painter and activist Abby Williams Hill to life in her one-woman performance No Woman Has Ventured As Far: The Art and Adventures of Abby Williams Hill. Refreshments will be served after the performance.

Adventurous and unconventional, Abby Williams Hill (1861–1943) was born in Grinnell, Iowa, educated at the Art Students League in New York, and moved to the City of Destiny with her husband in 1889. Their first residence was in the original downtown Chamber of Commerce building. Later they built and resided in The Hillcrest Apartments, which still stand across from Wright Park.

Between 1903 and 1906, Hill accepted four commissions from the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads. The commissions allowed for extended stays in the North Cascades and at Yellowstone National Park, and resulted in many of the striking landscapes that are on display in Jones Hall, Collins Memorial Library, and elsewhere on campus. Hill was also the founding president of the Washington state chapter of the Congress of Mothers (today’s PTA) and advocated on behalf of disadvantaged children and families.

Tacoma resident Karen Haas was the recipient of the Association of King County Historical Organization’s 2005 Heritage Education Award. Her living history presentations have been featured at Fort Clatsop, Whitman Mission National Historic Site, and the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Her repertoire includes Tacoma’s own Thea Foss and missionary Narcissa Whitman.

About Hill Haas says, “At a time when women were supposed to wear dainty shoes and be decorative in a stuffy room, Abby put on boots, hiked into her beloved wilderness, and created paintings that convey both the timelessness and vitality of the landscape of the American West. One can easily imagine her rolling her eyes at those folks who were too ‘civilized’ to keep up with her adventures.”

*Get more information on this event, Abby Williams Hill, or press-quality photos.
*See information about living history performer Karen Haas.
(see website for directions and parking information.)

Before the Performance: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Participate in “A Page Turning” Event sponsored by the new organization, Puget Sound Book Artists. Puget Sound Book Artists is a new organization comprised of individuals from all quarters of the book arts field for the purpose of creating a spirit of community. Participate in an information display of artists’ books from 1:30 to 3:30 on Saturday November 20^th.
Be amazed and inspired by a selection of unique artists’ books on display from local area artists. Learn about the Puget Sound Book Arts group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting all aspects of the books arts.

To sign up: contact jcarlin@pugetsound.edu to reserve a display space by NOVEMBER 15th. Participants will be responsible for their own books. Please bring books that can be handled and enjoyed. Each artist will have an 11×17 space for display. Set-up: 1:00 p.m.

(see website for directions and parking information.)

Hear amazing voices of the “What She Said” A capella singers!

Singers: Audra de Laveaga, Amy Jones, Lana McMullen, Marissa Ryder, Evanie Parr, Cailin Fuller, Katrina Nilsson-Gorman, Carolyn Campbell, Emily Jarecki, Liz Weil, Becca Adams, Mercedes Curran, & Shani Cohen

Music in the Library – “What She Said” A capella singers
Friday, November 19, 2010
3:30-4pm
Collins Library, Reading Rm.

“Local Conditions”
Solo exhibit and debut of Chandler O’Leary’s latest artist book, featuring Mount Rainier.

Runs Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 – Friday, Jan. 21, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Collins Library, University of Puget Sound
Artist Talk: Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, 7-9 p.m., Collins Library 020, University of Puget Sound

Sponsored by Tacoma Arts Commission.
Chandler O’Leary is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, and runs Anagram Press, which allows her to make a living by drawing pictures and doing nearly everything the hard way. She has been obsessed with Mount Rainier since she moved to Tacoma in 2008.

photographer: Sarah Christianson