26 May - 8 July, 2012
Exhibition: San Diego Book Arts Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition
Obening 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
6 October - 16 December
Exhibition:"Two San Deigo Presses"
Main floor, Geisel Library
6 October - 16 December
Exhibition:"Printing from the Edge: Coastal California Broadsides from the Archive for New Poetry"
Main floor, Geisel Library
12 July - 30 September 2011
Exhibition:"Dr. Seuss's Boids & Beasties"
A selection of whimsical & fantastical creatures created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, known to his reading public as Dr. Seuss.
Main floor, Geisel Library
11 May 2011 4-6p.m. Seuss Room in Geisel Library
Event: Join Us For "Tales from the Mothership" and a Sci-Fi Film Lab To Celebrate the 40th Birthday of UCSD's Iconic Geisel Library Building
Free and Open to the Public with Birthday Cake!
“Tales from the Mothership: The Geisel Library, Past, Present, and Future” and an experimental Sci-Fi Film “Laboratory” are two of the age-defying events being held by the UC San Diego Libraries on May 11 to celebrate the 40th birthday of the Geisel Library building, known by many as the campus “spaceship.”
“Tales from the Mothership: The Geisel Library, Past, Present, and Future,” will be presented by Seth Lerer, Dean of UCSD’s Division of Arts & Humanities, at 5 p.m. in the Seuss Room in Geisel Library. The event, which is being sponsored by the UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library, will be preceded by an experimental sci-fi musical performance by musician and sound wizard Scott Paulson of the UCSD Arts Library, starting at 4 p.m. Guests will also enjoy a birthday cake and refreshments. Lerer, one of the nation’s leading literature scholars, is an authority on Dr. Seuss and popular culture, and played a leadership role in the successful “UCSD by Design: Art, Architecture, and Urbanism in the Campus Context,” which featured a series of noted speakers on architecture and design and celebrated UCSD’s built environment, including the campus’ flagship building, Geisel Library.
The Sci-Fi Film Laboratory, which will be held from 4 to 4:45 p.m., will feature classic and not-so-classic science fiction film mash-ups with live music. Visitors will also have the opportunity to conduct their own sonic experiments, underscoring the films with a variety of Moog synthesizers, Theremins, and various other unusual instruments, and make their own mash-ups by choosing sounds to enhance the live screenings.
14 March-1 July 2011
Exhibition: "Fabulous at Fifty"
UCSD's special library collections are celebrated with highlights from 50 years of collecting.
Main floor, Geisel Library
Friday 11 March, 2011
Submission deadline for Got Books? Book collection competition.
21 January-30 October 2011
Exhibition: "Ansel Adams: Images of UC-San Diego"
Photographs of the UCSD campus taken in the early 1960s by the famed photographer.
Main floor, Geisel Library
9 November
Special Event: A Celebration of James Schuyler’s Poetry
On the birthday of poet James Schuyler (1923-1991), the editors of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems (2010) will read from Schuyler’s works and discuss the editing process. James Meetze and Simon Pettet drew these uncollected poems from UCSD’s Archive for New Poetry, which holds Schuyler’s extensive personal and professional archive.
4:30-6:00 pm
Seuss Room, Geisel Library
13 October 2010-30 January 2011
Exhibition: "UCSD @ 50: A Marvel Inside A Miracle"
UCSD celebrates its 50th anniversary with an exhibition of original materials drawn from the UCSD Archives. UCSD history is illustrated through photographs, oral histories, student newspapers, and other historical documents.
Main floor, Geisel Library
12 July-3 October 2010
Exhibition: "Dr. Seuss At the Movies"
An exhibit of original scripts and drawings made by Ted Geisel for his award-winning films.
Main floor, Geisel Library
12 July-3 October 2010
Exhibition: "Dr. Seuss's Boids & Beasties"
The summer Seuss exhibit, drawn from UCSD's beloved Dr. Seuss Collection
Main floor, Geisel Library
11 June-5 July 2010
Exhibition: "Consuming Passion"
A selection of rare and unique culinary works from UCSD's American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection
Activity Center, San Diego Fairgrounds, Del Mar, California
29 May-4 July 2010
Exhibition: "San Diego Book Arts Third National Juried Exhibition"
Internationally known artist Kitty Maryatt has selected some fifty artists' books, from more than 200 entries, for SDBA's third juried show. An opening reception will be held in Geisel Library, 3 pm-5 pm.
Main floor, Geisel Library
1 May-23 May 2010
Exhibition: "...with a little help from our friends..."
A selection of recent acquisitions for the Mandeville Special Collections Library, featuring rare books & manuscripts, early photographs & documents relating to San Diego, and one-of-a-kind artists books
Main floor, Geisel Library