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As libraries on and off college campuses evolve to stay relevant in the digital age, will serendipitous discoveries in old-fashioned card catalogues and other appealing raw material for art work be lost to increased efficiency? What emerging library media will catch artists'

eyes next?

 

The University Libraries and Contemporary Art Galleries will explore this topic in the symposium "Looking at Libraries" on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 3 p.m. in Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut.

 

Among the speakers will be prominent artists as well as UConn's Vice Provost for University Libraries Brinley Franklin and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Director of Libraries Ann Wolpert.

 

The event coincides with the Contemporary Art Galleries exhibit, "Libraries," which runs through Friday, Dec. 16. The show features the work of a dozen nationally and internationally-known artists who have used the library's architectural appearance, collections and research role to explore modern-day issues and create surprising poetry in the process.

           

Three of the artists featured in "Libraries" - Buzz Spector, Abelardo Morrell and Erica Baum - will speak at the Dec. 7 symposium as well as Olu Oguibe, UConn associate professor of painting and African American studies.

           

Spector, chair of Cornell University's art department, has had his work shown extensively in museums and galleries throughout the United States including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Morrell, a photographer and professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, has served as an artist-in-residence at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Baum, who lives and works in New York City, received her M.F.A. from Yale University's School of Art. 

           

For more information, visit www.contemporaryartgalleries.uconn.edu.

 

A reception will immediately follow the event in the Contemporary Art Galleries in the Art Building.

 

 

Suzanne Zack

Marketing and Communications Specialist

Homer Babbidge Library

University of Connecticut

369 Fairfield Road, U-1005A

Storrs, CT 06269

Phone:  (860) 486-1835

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