Monday, July 8th, 2019:
Our new display Artstories, at ECA Library, Evolution House, features hand-made artists’ books and altered books, guest curated by Dr Pamela Harris Lawton, who holds a Fulbright Scotland Visiting Professorship with IASH.
Artstories UK is a research project examining the learning that takes place between participants making art together. Through narrative co-inquiry around a specific concept, participants learn art skills, build relationships, and find common ground through critical conversation on themes of human experience during the art-making process.
The artist’s books on display represent three different artstories events: a collaborative altered book created by Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities visiting scholars on the concept of feminism using feminist texts; 3 altered books exploring the concept of belonging created in the art studio classroom at Moray House School of Education with PhD students Jing Xu and Qinhan [Cate] Chen, Dr Denitsa Petrova [ECA] and Pamela Harris Lawton; 9 handmade books relating personal narratives and reflections on living a purposeful life by young people aged 13-18 in the SCOREscotland program [strengthening communities for race equality in Scotland] : Ayisha Ba, Priya Roy, Zakaria Hamraoui, Hala Hatim, Alaa Ali, Maxwell Pena, Tifney Aheimbisibue, Momina Mizra and Mariem Ndiaye.
Strengthening Communities for Race Equality Scotland (SCOREscotland) is a voluntary organisation serving the minority ethnic communities in the West of Edinburgh. The organisation strives to eliminate racism in our society by working for and with those who are affected by racial discrimination.
Dr Lawton, EdDCTA, MFA, is Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University Arts, and is a 2019 Tate Modern Exchange Associate.
The exhibition will close on 1st August.
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Festival of Creative Learning 2018
The University Festival of Creative Learning Innovative Learning Week will take place this year from 19th to 23rd February. You can find out more at their blog: https://festivalofcreativelearning.wordpress.com/
Discovery Day at Main Library George Square
The Library is holding a Discovery Day on Tuesday 30th January, to showcase some of our primary resource materials and discovery tools. Everyone is welcome to come along to the first floor of the Main Library at George Square, between 10.00am and 3.00pm, to explore our primary resource databases and collections.
Representatives from 3 of the major publishers of digitised primary source collections, Adam Matthew, Gale Cengage and ProQuest, and our very own Centre for Research Collections (CRC), will be on hand to help students and staff navigate through and find useful material in the huge range of primary sources we have access to online at the Library.
Between the 3 publishers the Library has access to over 60 digital primary source collections (that figure becomes over 300 if you count the fact that some databases, like Archives Unbound, are made up of lots of individual databases and collections), giving us access to millions of pages and images of digitised primary source material at our fingers tips.
For more information please see:
Adam Matthew: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2017/12/11/spotlight-on-adam-matthew-digital-primary-sources/
Gale Cengage: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2018/01/09/spotlight-on-gale-cengage-digital-primary-sources/
ProQuest: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/2018/01/18/spotlight-on-proquest-digital-primary-sources/
We look forward to seeing you at the Main Library on 30th January!
Information Security Awareness Week 2017
Information Security Awareness Week will be held on 2nd – 6th October 2017. The week will focus on why information matters to all University students and staff, the threats that we all face as users, and how you can take some very simple steps to quickly protect your personal data and research content.
The main event on the afternoon of 4th October will see invited internal and external speakers present and discuss some of the issues. These will be very accessible and are aimed at all audiences, regardless of technical abilities. Bookings are now open via the following event channel: http://edin.ac/2huw29Z
We will also be active on Twitter during the week, with hints, tips and useful guidance. Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/UoEInfoSec and with #UoEInfoSec
Further information will be posted on http://www.ed.ac.uk/infosec and Twitter during the week.
Free artists' bookmarks at ECA Library!
Bookmarks XV 2017 – 2018:
Bookmarks XV is the fifteenth and final outing of the Bookmarks series from University of West of England, Bristol, UK. Part I of the free artwork distribution series launched in 2004 and has since visited 159 galleries, bookstores, workshops, centres, schools, museums and libraries in: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and USA, including ECA!
The series grew out of an aim to encourage appreciation and awareness of artists working in the book format. Participating artists each produced an edition of 100 signed and numbered bookmarks which were divided into 100 sets; one full set being sent to each of the contributing artists and the rest divided and sent out in distribution boxes to host venues around the world, such as libraries, for visitors to discover.
Since 2004, 598 artists have contributed 59,800 bookmarks to the project. Each bookmark is stamped with the current project’s website address, which directs the taker of the bookmark to the gallery section of the website. Visitors can view works by the artists and contact contributors via their website and email links on the site. As interest in artists’ books practice has grown internationally over the years, the bookmarks projects have now reached a natural conclusion.
Bookmarks XV will visit ten venues from September 2017 – February 2018 in Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and USA. The final set has 54 artists and groups who have sent their bookmarks from Australia, Canada, Germany, Hawaii, Italy, Sweden the UK and USA. For more information please visit: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk
Pop into ECA Library to pick up your free bookmark!
Laurie Clark artworks exhibition opens at ECA Library
We are pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of works on paper and artist’s books by Laurie Clark. The show has been curated by Laurie Clark and David Bellingham.
Laurie Clark: buttercups and harebells will run until 15th November 2017, and is located in ECA Library, on level 1 of Evolution House, West Port, Edinburgh.
Laurie Clark, Tom Clark and David Bellingham are also working on a project with other Cairn Gallery artists, called Pages and Walls: http://pagesandwalls.com
Forthcoming exhibition: Laurie Clark bookworks
We are delighted to announce that poet, illustrator and book artist Laurie Clark will be our special guest exhibitor later this summer! Laurie Clark is a well known book artist based in Scotland, and one half of the genius behind Moschatel Press, and the Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, along with partner Thomas A. Clark, poet.
ECA Library holds several works by Laurie Clark, such as the exquisite 100 Harebells (2012), and 100 Buttercups (2010), artist’s books, and many works by Moschatel Press such as A Box of Landscapes, (2010, and 2016).
We look forward to welcoming Laurie to ECA Library, Evolution House, and will post images and information about the exhibition later in the summer.
Reproduction of a painting of Adoxa moschatellina by the Swedish botanist C. A. M. Lindman (1856–1928), taken from his book Bilder ur Nordens Flora.
[Sourced from Wikimedia Commons.]
The Grey People curate book display for ECA Library
A display of artists’ books from the ECA Library collection was curated by The Grey People and was on show at ECA Library, Evolution House from 13th March to 4th April 2017.
The books chosen were examples which the three students found particularly interesting in their cross-disciplinary approach: whether due to the aesthetic experience they provide, their content and context, or their position on the border of book-making.
“We are The Grey People, a collective and platform for interdisciplinary and collaborative practice at ECA. Our aim is to encourage and celebrate work that falls between and transcends disciplines.
Over the course of the Festival of Creative learning we, as a collective, were given the opportunity to curate a selection of books from the Edinburgh College of Art Library artists’ books collection, as part of a micro-residency, running parallel to an exhibition we are putting on at the end of March. To get the chance to get an in-depth insight into the range of books archived here has been a wonderful experience, and has helped us consider many questions regarding the inevitably vague – and grey – area of the Interdisciplinary.”
The display complemented the BookMarks Bookfair at the ECA Sculpture Court on 29th March.
This is Information Security Awareness Week!
Monday 3rd – Friday 7th October 2016:
This week is Information Security Awareness Week 2016. This year the focus will be on why information matters to all University students and staff, and how you can take some simple steps to quickly protect your personal data and research content.
The main event on the afternoon of 5th October will see invited internal and external speakers present and discuss some of the issues. These will be very accessible and are aimed at all audiences, regardless of technical abilities. Bookings are now open via the following event channel:
https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=21717
The Security team will also be active on Twitter during the week, with hints, tips and useful guidance. Follow them on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/UoEInfoSec and with #UoEInfoSec
ECA professor wins Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award
The Society of Architectural Historians has announced the 2016 recipients of the SAH Publication Awards.
The Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award, honouring excellence in a published work devoted to historical topics in preservation, has been won by Miles Glendinning, for his book, The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation (Routledge, 2013).
Miles Glendinning is professor of architectural conservation at the University of Edinburgh (ESALA at ECA), and director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies.
The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation will shortly feature in a display in the Art & Architecture Library, at Minto House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
Congratulations to Professor Glendinning.
