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Announcement | Brown Library Staff Recognized for Service Milestones on BEAR Day

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On Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Brown University staff gathered for the annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition (BEAR) Day, at which staff are recognized for milestone years of continuous service. With so many employees with impressive longevity, the Library is always well represented at BEAR Day. Here are the Library staff members who were recognized … Announcement | Brown Library Staff Recognized for Service Milestones on BEAR Day

Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar

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This exhibit by ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Byrd McDaniel displays some of the memorabilia central to air guitar playing in the United States and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in particular.  Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the contemporary U.S. Air Guitar Championships stem from a long line of related practices throughout the twentieth … Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar

Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States

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Folklore Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899–1979) New York, New York: Hagstrom Company,  Inc., 1946 Brown University Library, Special Collections This colorful Folklore Music Map of the United States contains period illustrations, musical classifications and a bibliography.  With its visual overlay of music and geography, the map … Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States

Exhibit | Music Publishers Association (MPA) Paul Revere Award exhibit

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The Orwig Music Library is hosting a traveling exhibit: Winners of the Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence, awarded by the Music Publishers Association of the United States. The MPA gives prizes in several categories of music publishing, including different types of notesetting, design in folios, and cover design. For more information about the Music … Exhibit | Music Publishers Association (MPA) Paul Revere Award exhibit

Exhibit | Works from “A Global History of Art & Architecture”

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A course with Professors Sheila Bonde and Lindsay Caplan Examine models and artwork created by students in Sheila Bonde’s and Lindsay Caplan’s lecture course, “A Global History of Art and Architecture”, which presents art, architecture, and material culture from cave paintings to installation art.  The works exemplify forms studied in the class. Dates: December 20, … Exhibit | Works from “A Global History of Art & Architecture”

Exhibit | Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat

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The exhibit showcases the rich history of art and science in Providence and provokes you to consider the consequences of environmental change on local biodiversity.  Premiering original watercolors of plants by Edward Peckham together with matching specimens from the Brown University Herbarium, collected by William Bailey and others, explore the lost Cat Swamp habitat of the Wayland … Exhibit | Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat

Exhibit | Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics

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Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics from the Minassian Collection Curated by Rhodes Scholar Rhea Stark ‘18.5. From where exactly do the Islamic arts originate is the question at the center of this exhibition. While the answer perhaps seems intuitive— the Islamic Middle East—the reality is far more complex. The Islamic arts have from their beginnings existed … Exhibit | Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics

Exhibit | Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón

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Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón on view at John Hay Library, exhibition gallery. Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind This exhibition focuses on a small selection of the many extraordinary women poets represented in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. From women writing in the colonial period, … Exhibit | Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón

Exhibit | Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents

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Prayer, World Day of Prayer for Peace, February 16, 1934 Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents Brown University Library, Special Collections Exhibit The item on display is a written prayer delivered at an observance of the World Day of Prayer at the Westminster Church, Yonkers, New York, by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents, a Narragansett and Pokanoket Wampanoag … Exhibit | Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents