Celebrate quietly in the Fine Arts Library, or we’ll call the “Quiet Enforcers”.

As part of the events planned for the Ohio Fellows Reunion on September 19th and Alden Library’s 40th Anniversary Celebration, the Frederick & Kazuko Harris Fine Arts Library is offering an exhibit of Yao Ceremonial Artifacts Collection.
An opening reception will be held September 19th from 3:30 to 5pm.
The exhibit will be on view [...]

Enjoy these beautifully handmade books, each fascinating to behold: 141 items from 12 countries , and they are going to travel to 10 countries!
The entire show fits into one small box and ships inexpensively.
On view in the Fine Arts gallery space through September 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carolyn Cole will be discussing her career during a visit to Ohio University.
She is speaking Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. in 135 Walter Hall.
The event is sponsored by the student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association Ohio University (NPPAOU) and the School of Visual Communication. It is free and [...]

Herman Leonard, a 1947 BFA graduate and world-renowned photographer whose images captured the history and movement of jazz, will speak at Ohio University’s two under-graduate commencement ceremonies this year.
As an undergrad, Mr. Leonard was a photographer, and eventually photo editor for the Athena Yearbook.
His yearbooks and a selection of period photography equipment are on [...]

An exhibit of the Yao Collection is now on view at the Multicultural Center Gallery in Baker Center. The Opening Reception will take place during Ohio University’s International Week, on Thursday, May 14th, from 5 to 7pm.
A gift from Frederick Harris (Hon. PhD, 1997) and collecting partners Robert Fallon (BA, 1969), and Ms. Nguyen Thi [...]

A Designer’s ABC Primer makes reference to both the classic didactic ABC books and to the L’abecedaire of Gilles Deleuze, indicating a general theme but not a specific format.
Using the collection of the Frederick and Kazuko Harris Art Library as a primary research tool, the students of the Graphic Design Area class of 2010 [...]

As part of the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Institute of the African Child, part of Ohio University’s Center for International Studies, artist Betty LaDuke will exhibit her paintings at Alden Library, Fine Arts gallery space, from March 3rd through April 20, 2009.
“An upbeat, contemporary view of African life emerges in [...]

Sponsored by People for Peace and Justice, and the Frederick & Kazuko Harris Art Library.
People for Peace & Justice is an organization of Athens area residents who believe there are genuine alternatives to war as well as ways to promote justice and accord between people both here and abroad.
This exhibit provides a glimpse into the [...]

Frank Norton has been traveling to and capturing Brazil on film since 1980. Frank tries to capture his passion for Brazil through images of its people and locales. This exhibit offers a glimpse into the daily culture and environment of the city of São Paulo, and the coast of São Paulo State. On view in [...]

Photographs by Tieliang Zhang
In these photographs, experience the grandeur and magnificence of a part of the Great Wall at Jiankou, a mountainous suburb less than 100 miles northwest of Beijing. The Jiankou portion of the Great Wall was initially built in the fifteenth-century in the early Ming Dynasty. Also see other portions of the wall [...]

In conjunction with the Fine Arts Library Re-Opening Arts Celebration, there are a number of works on view throughout the Fine Arts space. The work represents various disciplines, and is presented in a variety of formats and materials. The exhibit will be on view through fall quarter, 2008.

The history of the non-attached book cover stretches back to ancient cultures, such as the Sumerians, Greeks and Romans. The desire to protect and keep the written word began with the advent of writing itself.
The four most common types of book cover today are the slipcase, the clam shell, pull off case, and the four-fold [...]

Plant Biology major Christine Leistner explores the confluence of art and the natural world in her exhibit titled “The Tragedy of a Liberated Desk”, a story of how a desk escapes its fate and is liberated from the office.
Christine explains that “the desk goes through all the seasons of a year experiencing the continuum [...]

Jim LoScalzo is a photographer for US News and World Report and the author of “Evidence Of My Existence“, recently published by the Ohio Univesity Press in association with the Ohio University School of Visual Communication and the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Mr. LoScalzo will be lecturing October 23rd at 7:30 in Scripps Hall. [...]

Senior painting major, David Hausman has created a nearly forty-foot long installation in the Alden Library stair tower: “My idea for the shape revolved around keeping you company as it follows you up or down the stairs.”
The project was funded, in part, by a Dean’s Undergraduate Creative Research Award and will be on view through [...]

What happens to art when it’s sole purpose is for pleasure?
Come see formalism and it’s enemy, post-modernism battle it out on the walls of the Fine Arts Library, 3rd floor Alden. A J Heckman’s paper installation combines interdisciplinary elements of language, poetry, art, paper, text, art history, and semiotics in an illuminating work which [...]

Artist Jessica Brown transforms even more obscure spaces into built environments consisting of form, color, and scent. For a short time, her BFA Show: ‘Serendipitous Adventure’, took viewers on a tour of Alden Library. Each installation was tailored to the call number range in which it was built: horticulture of SE Asia, Mythology, and Metamorphesis.
In [...]

Artist Jessica Brown transforms obscure spaces into built environments consisting of form, color, and scent.
For a short time, her ‘olfactory installation’ enveloped the Fine Arts Reference collection, on the third floor of Alden Library.

Alden Library will host an exhibition of selected works by abstract painter Mateo Galvano from February 10 until March 18.
The art will be on display in the Learning Commons, located on the 2nd floor. An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 10, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
In addition, Mr. Galvano will [...]