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30 Days In Belfast / by Gordon, Rita a,author.;
"Just one distraction could lead to failure-several may spell ruin. As the daughter of the wealthiest Black man in the country, Rose Ross struggles to make a name for herself as the COO of her father's tech company. She's even forced to let go of a promising relationship to focus on her career, but still cannot seem to escape her father's legacy. Rose fears that if she remains at Rick Ross Enterprises, she will never rise above the vast shadow his name casts. When her ailing friend reaches out to her for help, Rose doesn't hesitate. She has just thirty days to curate the most important charity art exhibition in Europe and break into a field she is truly passionate about. However, just before she leaves for her flight to Belfast, her father informs her that she has only three weeks to decide whether she will succeed him as CEO. With her concentration already split between one life-altering decision, Rose is stunned when she meets her friend's handsome and overprotective brothers. Right away, she recognizes an undeniable, yet different, attraction to both. Her mind in turmoil, Rose's focus is now fractured among love and business. If she cannot make a decision-or if she makes the wrong one-she will lose everything she has worked for and, perhaps, more." --Rose Rose, a strong businesswoman struggling to rise above the vast shadow of her wealthy father's name, has just three weeks to choose the course of her career-and her love life.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Fiction.; Multicultural; Multicultural & Interracial;
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25 women who dared to create. by Stanborough, Rebecca,author.(CARDINAL)622087; O'Keeffe, Georgia,1887-1986.(CARDINAL)148899;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Discover 25 women who designed their own futures. From dancers to musicians to artists, these women drew from their imaginations and dreamed of the impossible.950L
Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Humor.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Escobar, Marisol.; Lange, Dorthea.; Nampeyo, approximately 1856-1942.; Ringold, Faith.; Sayeg, Magda.; Beach, Amy, 1867-1944.; Carter, Ruth.; Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971; Claudel, Camille, 1864-1943.; Drew, Jane.; Graham, Martha.; Hadid, Zaha.; Head, Edith.; Himid, Lubaina, 1954-; Kahlo, Frida; Kusama, Yayoi.; León, Tania.; Lin, Maya, 1959-; Miller, Lee, 1907-1977.; Neshat, Shirin, 1957-; O'Farrell, Lauren.; O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986; Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962.; Sejima, Kazuyo, 1956-; Thomas, Alma.; Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.; Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-; African-American biographies.; Native American biographies.; Native American people.; African American authors.; African American authors; African American authors; African American authors; African American families; African American feminists; African American girls; African American interest.; African American political activists.; African American political activists; African American women educators.; African American women political activists; African American women; African American women; African American women; African American women; African American women; African American women; African American women; African American women; African Americans.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; African-American Interest.; Amputees.; Antisemitism.; Architects and builders; Architects; Architects; Artists.; Artists' models; Artists; Artists; Artists; Asian American women; Asian Americans; Asthma in children; Asthma; Authors, American; Authors, American; Authors, American; Ballet dancers; Ballet dancers; Ballet dancing; Ballet; Ballet; Biography; Biography; Biography; Classism.; Communism.; Composers; Composers; Composers; Costume; Cuban Americans; Dance; Dance; Dancers; Dancers; Dancers; Discrimination.; Espionage, German.; Fashion design; Fashion designers; Fashion designers; Fashion designers; Feminism; Feminism; Feminism; Feminism; Feminists; Feminists; Flowers in art.; Hispanic American women.; Hispanic Americans; History, Modern; Hopi Indians; Illustration of books; Illustrators; Immigrants; Immigrants; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Iranian Americans; Japanese Americans; Journalists; Mental illness; Models (Persons); Models (Persons); Models (Persons); Multiculturalism.; Musicians; Musicians; Musicians; Painters; Painters; Painters; Painters; Painting, American.; Painting, American; People with disabilities; People with disabilities; People with disabilities; Photographers; Photography; Political activists.; Political activists; Political activists; Political activists; Pottery; Prejudices.; Race discrimination; Race relations.; Racism.; Schizophrenia.; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenics; Sculpture; Sculpture; Segregation.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Sexism.; Spies; Success.; Teachers.; Teachers; Teachers; Teachers; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Watercolor painting, American; Wheelchairs; Women artists.; Women artists; Women artists; Women authors, American.; Women authors, American; Women authors, American; Women authors; Women composers; Women dancers.; Women designers; Women fashion designers; Women musicians.; Women painters; Women with disabilities.; Women's rights; Women; Women; Women; Women; Women; Women; Women; Women; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Biography.; Costumes.; Feminism.; Feminists.; Racism.; Sexism.; Women.; Women's movement.; Womyn.; Iranian Americans;
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Afterlife / by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420;
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." -Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves-lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack-but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including-maybe especially-members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
Subjects: Fiction.; Immigrants; Teenage girls; Multiculturalism; Older people; Pregnant women; Missing persons; Immigrant families; Hispanic Americans; Mexican Americans; Noncitizens; Self-acceptance; Mexican American families; Families; Hispanic American women;
Available copies: 67 / Total copies: 78
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Unpainted to the last : Moby-Dick and twentieth-century American art / by Schultz, Elizabeth A.(CARDINAL)264541;
Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Illustrating Moby-Dick. 1. Early Illustrations of Moby-Dick. 2. The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent and His Followers. 3. Boardman Robinson's Illustrations. 4. Illustrations of Altered Editions of Moby Dick. 5. Illustrated Editions of the 1970s. 6. The Arion Press Edition -- pt. 2. Painting and Sculpting Moby-Dick. 7. Abstract Expressionist Paintings and Sculptures of Moby-Dick. 8. Narrative and Realistic Representations of Moby-Dick. 9. Moby-Dick: "In Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars" 10. Epilogue: "Floating on the Margin of the Scene, and in Full Sight of It" -- App. 1. Illustrated Editions -- App. 2. Autonomous Works of Art.Endlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs. Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Unpainted to the Last illuminates this impressive body of work and shows how it opens up our understanding of both Moby-Dick and twentieth-century American art. The most continuously, frequently, and diversely illustrated of all American novels, Moby-Dick has attracted some remarkable book illustrators in Rockwell Kent, Boardman Robinson, Garrick Palmer, Barry Moser, and Bill Sienkiewicz, among others represented here. It has also inspired extraordinary creations by such prominent artists as Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella, Sam Francis, Benton Spruance, Leonard Baskin, Theodoros Stamos, Richard Ellis, Ralph Goings, Seymour Lipton, Walter Martin, Tony Rosenthal, Richard Serra, and Theodore Roszak. The artists reflect in equal measure the novel's realistic (plot, character, natural history) and philosophical modes, its visual and visionary dimensions. Some, like the obsessed and haunted Gilbert Wilson, claim Moby-Dick as their "Bible." Still others view the novel as a touchstone for feminist, multicultural, and environmentalist themes, or mock its status as a cultural icon.
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Art and literature; Sea stories, American; Art, Modern; Whaling in art.; Whales in art.; Art, American.;
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Visual literacy / by Elkins, James,1955-(CARDINAL)208662;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Visual literacy or literary visualcy? -- Four fundamental concepts of image science / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The remaining 10 percent : the role of sensory knowledge in the age of the self-organizing brain / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Nineteenth-century visual incapacities / Jonathan Crary -- From visual literacy to image competence / Jon Simons -- The visual complex : mapping some interdisciplinary dimensions of visual literacy / Peter Dallow -- Visual literacy in North American secondary schools : arts-centered learning, the classroom, and visual literacy / Susan Shifrin -- Philosophical bases for visual multiculturalism at the college level / William Washabaugh -- Bridging the gap between clinical and patient-provided images / Henrik Enquist -- The image as cultural technology / Matthias Bruhn and Vera Dünkel -- Visual literacy in action : "law in the age of images" / Richard K. Sherwin.
Subjects: Visual literacy.; Visual communication.; Visual perception.;
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Salma the Syrian chef [audio-enabled device] by Ramadan, Ahmad Danny,author.(CARDINAL)416907; Bron, Anna,1989-illustrator.(CARDINAL)833863; Jendali, Yasmine,narrator.; Container of (expression):Ramadan, Ahmad Danny.Salma the Syrian chef.Spoken word (Jendali);
Read by Yasmine Jendali.All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers in her Welcome Home are happy to lend a hand-and a sprinkle of sumac. With creativity, determination, and charm, Salma brings her new friends together to show Mama that even though things aren't perfect, there is cause for hope and celebration. Syrian culture is beautifully represented through the meal Salma prepares and Anna Bron's vibrant illustrations, while the diverse cast of characters speaks to the power of cultivating community in challenging circumstances.Audio-enabled book reader device; headphone jack, external speaker, play/pause button, volume controls, page-turning controls, rechargeable battery.
Subjects: Picture books for children.; Multiculturalism in literature.; Children's audiobooks.; Picture books.; Cooking, Syrian; Families; Refugees, Arab;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Lyle Ashton Harris : today I shall judge nothing that occurs : selections from the Ektachrome archive / by Harris, Lyle Ashton,1965-artist,photographer.(CARDINAL)884226; Aletti, Vince,contributor.(CARDINAL)682375; Attille, Martina,contributor.(CARDINAL)884280; Baer, Ulrich,contributor.(CARDINAL)680746; Bordowitz, Gregg,contributor.(CARDINAL)873201; Burton, Johanna,contributor.(CARDINAL)279934; Edwards, Adrienne(Art critic),contributor.(CARDINAL)782756; Gaines, Malik,contributor.(CARDINAL)855605; Gallun, Lucy,contributor.(CARDINAL)565504; Harris, Thomas Allen,contributor.(CARDINAL)884387; Johnson, Rashid,1977-contributor.(CARDINAL)353066; Lax, Thomas J.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855500; Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth,1979-contributor.(CARDINAL)281757; Lin, Parissah,contributor.; Lord, Catherine,1949-contributor.(CARDINAL)856456; Marconi, Roxana,contributor.; Newkirk, Pamela,contributor.(CARDINAL)704298; Otis, Clarence,Jr.,contributor.; Reid-Pharr, Robert,1965-contributor.(CARDINAL)278720; Storr, Robert,contributor.(CARDINAL)183035; Thomas, Mickalene,1971-contributor.(CARDINAL)316691; Udé, Iké,contributor.(CARDINAL)884233; Aperture Foundation,publisher.(CARDINAL)195492;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, the artist's archive of 35 mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections from a host of artistic and cultural figures. It offers a unique document of what Harris has described as "ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and '90s, against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization." As a young artist experimenting with installation, performance, and collage at the time, Harris obsessively photographed his friends, lovers, and individuals who either were, or would become, figures of influence, such as Marlon Riggs, Cornel West, bell hooks, Stuart Hall, Klaus Biesenbach, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Glenn Ligon, and others. The images record the confluence of multiple international communities--gathering points for the exchange of ideas and the development of theoretical positions on art and culture that continue to resonate to this day. Together, these photographs and the journals not only sketch a personal history of a unique time of importance to contemporary art, but also show the development and shaping of Harris's eye and influences as an artist. -- From Publisher's website:Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, including most recently in "Photography's Last Century" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; in "Basquiat's 'Defacement': The Untold Story'' and "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; in "United by AIDS" at Migros Museum f|r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; in "Kiss My Genders" at the Haywood Gallery, London; in "Tell Me Your Story" at Kunsthal KaDE, Amersfoort, NL; in "Elements of Vogue" at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (traveled to Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City). Harris's work was included in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Busan Biennial, South Korea (2008), the Bienal de Ŝo Paulo (2016), the Whitney Biennial (2017), and presented by Ciňma Du Řel at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). Harris is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; P̌rez Art Museum, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Tate Modern, London, UK; Museo de Arte Contempor̀neo de Castilla y Le̤n, Spain; Migros Museum f|r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. Harris has also presented performances at a range of venues, most recently at Volksb|hne Gr|ner Salon sponsored by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019); a lecture/performance on Andy Warhol presented by the DIA Art Foundation, New York (2018); and an installation/performance at Participant Inc., New York (2018); and a lecture/performance on experimentation, politics and sexuality in the work of filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs at Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver BC, Canada (2020).arris received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016), the David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2014), and the Rome Prize Fellowship (2000) among other awards and honors. Harris joined the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome in 2014 and was appointed a trustee of the Tiffany Foundation in 2016. Born in the Bronx, New York, raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and New York, Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. His work is available from the following fine art galleries: Salon 94 (New York, NY, USA); David Castillo (Miami, FL, USA); Albert Merola Gallery (Provincetown, MA, USA); Maruani Mercier (Brussels, BE). Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University and lives in New York.-- From artist's website (January 2024):
Subjects: Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965-; African American artists; African American gay people; African Americans in art.; Artists, Black; Black people in art.; Gay people, Black; Gay men, Black; Gay people; African American photographers.; Photographers, Black.; Photography, Artistic.; Photography; Vernacular photography.; Queer gaze.; Queer (Verb); Queer art.; Queer artists.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; African American queer people.; Black queer people.; Queer people.; LGBTQ+ people.; Black gay men.; Homosexuals.;
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Makers : a history of American studio craft / by Koplos, Janet.(CARDINAL)286011; Metcalf, Bruce,1949-(CARDINAL)189956; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Center for Craft, Creativity and Design.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The roots of studio craft -- 1900-1909: handwork and industrialization -- 1910-1919: upheavals -- 1920-1929: boom time in a consumerist society -- 1930-1939: industrial design versus handcraft -- 1940-1949: new opportunities -- 1950-1959: the second revival of crafts -- 1960-1969: youth culture, counterculture, multiculture -- 1970-1979: organizations and professionals -- 1980-1989: money and images -- 1990-1999: mastery as meaning.
Subjects: Decorative arts; Decorative arts; Art, American; Art, American;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Cang Jie : the inventor of Chinese characters / by Li, Jian(Art teacher),author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)608590; Wert, Yijin,translator.(CARDINAL)603902;
"In ancient times under the reign of Yellow Emperor (about 2500 B.C.), people kept records by piling stones and tying knots. One day, Cang Jie, a historical official who tied knots to keep records under Yellow Emperor, unexpectedly made a big mistake. Feeling very guilty, he was determined to find out a better way for keeping records. He went back to his hometown to think it over for many days and nights. Inspired by the footprints of animals, he began to carefully observe the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, as well as birds and animals. At the same time, he traveled around collecting signs created by fishermen, farmers, hunters and soldiers. In the end, he succeeded in creating Chinese characters, which are still widely used today. In this multicultural children's story, kids will find out that there is a story behind every Chinese character. Children will also learn about basic Chinese characters and how to make them."--Publisher's description.Ages 5 to 8.AD950L
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Cang, Jie (Legendary character); Bilingual books.; Chinese characters; Legends;
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Building new banjos for an old-time world / by Jones-Bamman, Richard,1951-author.(CARDINAL)883449;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A brief history of the banjo -- The old-time nation -- God is in the details -- An homage to the past -- An apprentice to ghosts -- The banjo's evolving story.Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads-asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder's role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Jones-Bamman explores these questions and many others while sharing the ways an inescapable sense of the past undergirds the performance and enjoyment of old-time music. Along the way he reveals how antimodernism remains integral to the music's appeal and its making. He also delves into the omission of African Americans-the originators of the banjo-from both the instrument's popular history and the nostalgia engendered by the music, and the role contemporary banjo builders are playing to rectify this situation. Book jacket.
Subjects: Banjo; Banjo makers; Old-time music; Banjo music;
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