Library Exhibits & Special Events
March 25 - June 29, 2013
Exhibition: "On Top of the World: 50 Years of Americans on Mt. Everest"
A selection of unique manuscripts and other documents from UC San Diego’s High Altitude Medicine & Physiology Collection, illustrating expeditions and experiments to test and measure human ability to tolerate severe oxygen deprivation.
Main floor, Geisel Library
March 18 - June 29, 2013
Exhibition: "A Nation of Readers"
An exhibition of books, pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, and other documents, selected from the holdings of the Mandeville Special Collections Library, that illustrate the types of publications Americans have read since colonial days.
Main floor, Geisel Library
8 February - 18 March 2013
Exhibition: "Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!"
Image from Happy Birthday to You! TM & © Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. 1959, All rights reserved.
A selection of original drawings and documents from the personal archive of beloved children’s author, Theodor Seuss Geisel.
Main floor, Geisel Library
Saturday, February 2, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Event: Menu Memories - A Look Back with Author Jim Heimann.
UCSD Faculty Club
Enjoy a special afternoon!
AIWF San Diego and the Mandeville Special Collections Library are hosting notable Menu Historian Jim Heimann speaking on: The American Menu. A Visual History of Dining Out In America. You will not only see the culinary trends that were in vogue, but also how various art movements were interpreted on the menus. Jim will take us into the fascinating realm of menu collecting.
Jim Heimann is a resident of Los Angeles, and the executive editor of Taschen America. For 30 years prior to this position he had a career as an award winning graphic designer and illustrator, and has authored over thirty books on architecture, photography, and popular culture, including American Menu Design 1920-1960.
$15 for AIWF members and $17 guests/non-members. Free parking.
Reservations: R.S.V.P. now to AIWF San Diego Treasurer Diane Gotkin at diane.gotkin@gmail.com or leave a message on the AIWF phone line at 619-297-0951 and your call will be returned. All reservations must be accompanied by payment in advance - cash or check payable to AIWF and mailed to AIWF San Diego, 2683 Via De La Valle #G230, Del Mar, CA 92014. If you wish to pay by VISA'/MC/AMEX the charge is $20 members/non-members.
16 January, 2013
Event: "Pirates in Print"
A talk by Dr. Mark Hanna, Department of History, UC San Diego. In conjunction with the exhibition "Pirates in Print."
1:00 pm
Seuss Room, Geisel Library
23 October, 2012
Event: "The Cookbook Family Tree: A History of Early Cookbooks"
A talk by author Anne Willan, with book signing and reception.
5:00 pm, UCSD Faculty Club (note: location change)
1 October, 2012 - 3 February, 2013
Exhibition: "Pirates in Print: Seafaring Treasures of the Mandeville Special Collections Library"
Main floor, Geisel Library
26 July - 23 September 2012
Exhibition: "A Time for Resistance: The Herman Baca Papers"
Main floor, Geisel Library
13 July - 30 October 2012
Exhibition: "Dr. Seuss's Boids & Beasties"
The summer Seuss exhibit, drawn from UCSD's beloved Dr. Seuss Collection
Main floor, Geisel Library
26 May - 8 July, 2012
Exhibition: San Diego Book Arts Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition
Opening reception: Saturday, June 2, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Main floor, Geisel Library
Since its first exhibition in 2006, San Diego Book Arts National Juried Exhibition of artists’ books has become one of the premiere venues for this engaging and provocative art form. Rarely content to present “just the facts,” humans have been decorating, adorning, and illustrating the book since its inception. The artist’s book is, in a sense, the ultimate expression of this activity.
The pieces selected for this show, by juror Carolee Campbell, represent the full range of contemporary American book making. There are examples of fine printing using traditional letterpress techniques with lead type, incorporating limited edition prints, exquisitely bound. One-of-kind books, melding creative structures with drawing, painting, and sculpture, stretch the concept of the “book” in imaginative ways.
Old books can be found deconstructed, cut, twisted, folded, fanned, and distorted into new objects of beauty and intrigue. Tea bags, iPhones, egg shells, flags, rocks, and baskets are morphed into works of art that challenge our thinking about the repositories and communication of knowledge on many levels.
In her introduction to the exhibition catalog, Ms. Campbell says, “The best books being made today, as in the past, become greater than the sum of their parts. They sing with metaphor. They captivate. They hold the viewer in their thrall and demand to be returned to again and again in order to rediscover that high energy transfer, that synergistic flow from part to part and back to whole.”
The exhibition juror, Carolee Campbell, inaugurated Ninja Press in 1984. She designs, illustrates, hand sets in type, prints, and binds each edition of books. She is deeply committed to making the beautifully executed book as well as to the continual investigation of form using unusual materials, thereby harnessing both as expressions of book art for the 21st century. To find more information about Carolee and her books, refer to her website: ninjapressbooks.com.
23 January - 11 May, 2012
Exhibition: “So There Will Be No Forgetting: Images from the Spanish Civil War”
Main floor, Geisel Library
