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San Francisco exhibit features jazz photographs from 'Keystone Korner'

Starting this month through the end of April, the Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco will exhibit photographs from Kathy Sloane's Keystone Korner. There will be a reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibit March 17 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Jazz Heritage Center's Koret Heritage Lobby. Books will be available for purchase at the reception, and Sloane will be on hand to sign them.

On March 31, Sloane and fellow colleague Professor Lewis Watts will present a lecture focused around jazz in the Bay Area. This event will begin at 2 p.m. at the Jazz Heritage Center's Media and Education Theater. Tickets are $10 and are available to purchase online.

For more information on these two events, email info@jazzheritagecenter.org or visit the Jazz Heritage Center website.

March author events for Scott Russell Sanders

Earth Works author Scott Russell Sanders has several events planned for March:

March 1-3

Sanders will attend the 2012 AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair at the Chicago Hilton. Sanders will sign copies of his books Earth Works and A Conservationist Manifesto at noon March 3. For more information on the conference and bookfair, visit the AWP website.

March 15

At 7:30 p.m., Sanders will deliver the Annual Vocation of the Writer Lecture at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. To learn more about this event, visit the College of Holy Cross events page. 

March 24

Sanders will discuss and sign copies of Earthworks from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Village Lights Bookstore in Madison, IN. For more information, call 812-265-1800 or visit the Village Lights Bookstore website.

March 29

Sanders will be the keynote speaker at the 43rd Annual College English Association Conference. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, VA. You must register online to attend this event. To learn more about the conference, visit the College English Association website.

For more information on these events, please visit the author's website. 

Lucy Norris curates Everything Must Go exhibit in London

For our readers across the pond, a new exhibit curated by Recycling Indian Clothing author Lucy Norris opens at the Bargehouse in London today and runs through January 22. Everything Must Go follows the journeys of worn clothing as it is sold for reuse and recycling across the world.

A lecture about recycled clothing entitled "Talking Rubbish" will take place January 21 in conjunction with the exhibit. Both the lecture and exhibit are free and open to the public. For more information, visit thewasteoftheworld.org.

Last Folio authors discuss new exhibit on CBS morning show

Yuri Dojc and Katya Krausova, authors of Last Folio, discussed the opening of their exhibit on CBS 2's morning news show Eye on New York Sunday, March 27. The exhibit, also titled Last Folio, opened March 25 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and features Dojc's photographs of once-vibrant Jewish communities in Slovakia. In particular, Dojc focuses on a schoolhouse that was left untouched for over half a century after its students were captured during the Holocaust. 

For more information on the exhibit, visit the museum's website.

The Institute for Holocaust Education hosts exhibit on Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive

The Institute for Holocaust Education is hosting the exhibit Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto at the Jewish Community Center Art Gallery in Omaha, Neb. The exhibit runs through Feb. 25 and includes facsimiles from the Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive about the Jewish experience in Nazi-occupied Poland.

For further reading on Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive, see the IU Press books Who Will Write Our History? and The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive.

Author event: Trevor H.J. Marchand exhibition and lecture

Author Trevor H.J. Marchand (The Masons of Djenne) is organizing an exhibition at RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, about the mud architecture of Djenne starting March 2, 2010 and ending on April 29, 2010. Marchand will also give a gallery talk on March 23, 2010.

The talk will be free, but you must get tickets in advance. For more information, please visit the RIBA events site.

Islamic book arts exhibition opens tonight

“From Pen to Printing Press: Ten Centuries of Islamic Book Arts”

March 6–May 10, 2009

Special Exhibitions Gallery First floor, IU Art Museum

The IU Art Museum will host an exhibition of approximately fifty works on paper drawn exclusively from IU collections and on display for the first time. The show explores the materials and tools of Islamic literate culture from the ninth century until today. Works on display include pens, inks, and papers, Qur’ans, Persian and Mughal illustrated manuscripts, Ottoman devotional works, cartographical manuscripts, printed books, and modern calligraphies and marbled papers.

IU Press author Dr. Christiane Gruber will present the opening lecture tonight at 5:30 p.m., with a viewing and reception to follow from 6:30-8 p.m. 

A symposium related to the exhibit will take place on March 7 from 9 am – 3 pm in the IU Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 102. “Islamic Book Arts: A One-Day Symposium” will include eight 20-minute presentations on a variety of objects and materials on display in the exhibition. The talks will cover a wide range of subjects, including the collector Ruth E. Adomeit, book miniaturization, devotional manuals, printed books, Islamic cartography, and Islamic books arts in India during the Sikh period and in modern sub-Saharan Africa. The symposium will be followed by a reception to be held from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium, IU Art Museum.

In conjunction with the exhibition and symposium, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition, a scholarly volume of eight articles illustrated with over one hundred color figures will be published by IU Press in December 2009. This beautifully produced volume provides a valuable new resource for students and scholars of Islamic art, while addressing a wider audience interested in Islamic artistic traditions.

The exhibition and volume are supported by a generous grant administered by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program, and the symposium is funded by a College Arts & Humanities Institute Conference Grant.

Photos from Searching for Cioran reception at MLA

Despite being bumped from her flight to the Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco, Music and Humanities Editor Jane Behnken reports that the rest of the meeting was smooth sailing—the highlight being the reception for Kenneth Johnston and his late wife Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's book, Searching for Cioran. Several of the Johnstons' colleagues and family members were in attendance to help celebrate the book's launch. IU Press authors Willis Barnstone and Yusef Komunyakaa also stopped by the booth. You can view more photos of the reception here, courtesy of Kenneth Johnston's daughter-in-law, Jennifer.

Thomas Hart Benton exhibit opens at IU Art Museum

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Thomas Hart Benton's Indiana murals, the Indiana University Art Museum is featuring an exhibit on Benton's works starting today and running through May 18. IU Press is also celebrating this anniversary by bringing Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals back into print. To learn more about Benton and his landmark public art, visit the exhibit or purchase a copy of the book.