Design a bookmark for Al-Mutanabbi Street
On March 5, 2007, on the booksellers’ street in Baghdad, Al-Mutanabbi Street, a car bomb exploded. Thirty people were killed and over …
Storytellers
sites.hampshire.edu/storytellers Storytellers is a companion digital exhibition to Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here that examines the role of narrative in artists’ responses to …
Summer travels in the southern hemisphere
Earlier this summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with a group of American …
Institute for Curatorial Practice Exhibition Opening
Exhibitions that challenge us to reconsider how we view landscape paintings and photographs, and question the consequences of human intervention into our …
Al-Mutanabbi Street exhibition photographs
On June 18th, the Hampshire Library gallery hosted a conversation among four of the participating artists in the traveling exhibition Al-Mutanabbi Street …
Al-Mutanabbi Street Opening on June 18
Featured on masslive.com: Hampshire hosts exhibit of work created in response to attack on Iraqi cultural center
Alumni Art Exhibit Harold F. Johnson Library Gallery May 28-June 7, 2015
Alumni Art Exhibition May 28-June 7, 2015 In conjunction with Hampshire’s 45th Anniversary Celebration, this showcase will feature works by Gwendolyn Kerber …
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: June 17 – September 30, 2015
The Hampshire College Art Gallery will host the traveling exhibition, Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, from June 17 through September 30, 2015. …
Wine and Cheese in the Library Saturday for Hampshire’s 45th
FRIENDS OF THE HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE LIBRARY Reception, June 6, 2015, 5:00-6:30 pm Robert Seydel Reading Room, Library 2nd Floor You are invited …
JOIN US: Airport Lounge Opening Reception | Apr. 30th 4:30-6:00pm
AIRPORT LOUNGE OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH 4:30pm-6:00pm
Airport Lounge Opening Reception | Apr. 30th 4:30-6:00pm
AIRPORT LOUNGE OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH 4:30pm-6:00pm The Airport Lounge is now a prototype sandbox for the Library Learning Commons. Please …
Art Questions on the Magic Board
April 27-May 11, 2015 Curated by Eveline Alix, Tyrone Bilingsley, Satchel Forrester, Daniela Hernandez, Riley Kleve, Amara Korley, Henry Pskowski, Claire Sammut, …
Russian Radical Left Poetry is Coming!
Pavel Arseniev (Petersburg, Russia) to read at Hampshire College Library April 14 Tue 6-8 pm in the KIVA Poet, critic, publisher, translator …
Wearable Technology Workshop with Ayliffe Brown
10 Lucky students will will get to participate in a Wearable Technology Workshop led by Ayliffe Brown on Friday 4/3 from 1-6 pm in the Airport Lounge. The workshop will introduce using different sensors in designing simple wearable tech prototypes and open-source software.
Writer, Producer from Amazon’s “Transparent” coming to Hampshire
Hampshire College will host filmmaker and artist Rhys Ernst (second from right) and writer and musician Faith Soloway on Monday, April 6. Ernst and Soloway are part of the creative team for Amazon’s groundbreaking series Transparent, winner of 2015 Golden Globes for best comedy series and best actor (Jeffrey Tambor).
Mass Moca opening tomorrow: Bibliothecaphilia
Bibliothecaphilia is opening at Mass Moca with a reception tomorrow evening. The exhibit explores definitions of libraries in the age of e-books, apps, and digital media.
Hampshire Representation at Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
The purpose of the Art + Feminism event was to help correct a bias in Wikipedia which is disproportionately written by and about men. In just a short time, the group gathered at Mass Art created Wikipedia accounts and then learned how to create external links, when a person is considered “notable” and therefore eligible for a Wikipedia entry, and what types of sources are acceptable.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
March 5, 2015 marks the eighth anniversary of the bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street, a literary center in Baghdad named after the 10th century poet. The bombing killed thirty people, wounded more than 100, and destroyed a center of book selling and reading. This summer, the Harold F. Johnson Library and the Hampshire College Art Gallery will host an exhibition of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project.
Papercut Workshop in the Library
Papercut and tapestry artist Tamar Shadur came to the library yesterday evening to conduct a workshop for Hampshire students interested in learning this ancient art form. About 15 students (and a couple of staff and faculty members) came to the Hill Urbina Room on the 3rd floor to learn how to make papercut work around the theme of the “Tree of Life.”
The Reader on the Magic Board
On the Magic Board this week: The Reader exhibits a sample of visual submissions to The Reader, Hampshire’s longest running literary magazine.