New Database: Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers

July 2, 2014Databases, Our CollectionsElizabeth Hollenbeck

The Library has acquired the Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers digital collection. This EBSCO digital resource is the second series of the Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection and consists of newspapers, letters, advertisements, and other primary source documents covering Latino-Hispanic civil rights, religion, and women’s rights.

Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers can be accessed from the Library’s Online Library page at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases/?libpage=L

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

READ! – Mr. William Buhidar recommends…

June 10, 2014Our Collections, READ PostersElizabeth Hollenbeck

The South Texas College Library is proud to continue to showcase our second series of READ Posters.

This week we are featuring Mr. William Buhidar and his book recommendations. Mr. Buhidar teaches with the Visual Arts and Music Department at the Pecan campus. Additionally, he conducts musical performances at the college.

We are proud to have a selection of books that Mr. William Buhidar recommends for everyone to read. Check out his selections below!

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Compleat Mozart: a guide to the complete works – Neal Zaslaw

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Haydn: Chronicle & Works by H.C. Robbins Landon

Ceramic Showdown 2014

June 7, 2014Library Art Gallery, Pecan Campus, Previous ExhibitsCeramic Conference, South Texas Ceramic Showdowngotvos

South Texas College’s Library Art Gallery, together with the college’s Visual Arts and Music Department, brings the Rio Grande Valley its annual ceramics exhibition and workshop, “Calculated Efforts: A South Texas Ceramic Showdown.” All activities are free and open to the public.

The event includes a full display of ceramic works by art students and professors from regional universities and community colleges. The exhibit will be on view from June 2 to Aug. 8 at the college’s Pecan Campus Art Building Art Gallery, located at 3201 West Pecan Blvd. in McAllen.

A two-day ceramics workshop will take place on June 13 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., and June 14 at 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. at STC’s Pecan Campus Art Building (Bldg. B) Ceramics Lab, Room 113. Art talks will be held on Saturday, June 14 from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. at the same location. An exhibit reception will be held on June 12 in the Visual Arts and Music Gallery and the Pecan Campus Library Art Gallery from 6-8 p.m.

“We are back in action for another round of ceramic collaboration. There are a number of variables that we are putting in place,” said Chris Leonard, STC ceramics instructor and exhibit/workshop organizer. “Actually, people across the state and even nation are putting things in place and into kilns in order to make the show happen in the summer.”

Participants will see clay demonstrations by nationally recognized and distinguished ceramicists Fred Spaulding and Jennifer Quarles.

“We are continuing with a paired show format; the institutional invite will be back along with a pair of visiting artists, Jennifer Quarles from Austin and Fred Spaulding, who at one time taught at UTPA and will be rolling down from Arlington,” Leonard said. “Their work should harmonize well while also providing interesting levels of contrast. In their ceramic work, which isn’t the entirety of all that they produce, both artists use aspects of printmaking, photography, and graphic arts in creating work that both touches and transcends tradition.”

Spaulding earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut. He is currently associate professor of art at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth and has completed further study through residencies at Kohler’s Arts in iron casting and Penland’s Winter Residency in Printmaking. Spaulding continues to work, exploring the possibilities of constructed structures of brick.

Quarles earned her Master of Fine Arts from Texas Women’s University. Since 2002, her work has been featured in both regional and national exhibitions. In addition, Quarles works with the Texas Clay Arts Association (TCAA), a non-profit organization that promotes ceramics in Texas. Her work explores our constant drive to record and share information, as well as our inherent desire to connect to one another.

STC’s Library Art Gallery exhibits regional, national and international artwork, explores new visions and theories of creativity, and introduces innovative artistic expressions to the South Texas region.

For more information contact Dawn Haughey at (956) 872-3488, or via email at dhaughey@southtexascollege.edu or Chris Leonard at (956) 872-2668, or via email at cpleonar@southtexascollege.edu or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/newsevents/libraryartgallery/.

Roma Annual Art Exhibit 2014

June 7, 2014Library Art Gallery, Previous Exhibits, Starr County Campusgotvos

South Texas College’s Starr County Campus Library Art Gallery is proud to present its “Roma High School Annual Art Exhibition.” The display features works of art by students, who have studied under the tutelage of Roma High School art instructors Monica Gillette, Mario Godinez and Gabriela Gonzalez.

The exhibit will be on display from June 12 to Aug. 8, 2014 at STC’s Starr County Campus Library (Bldg. F), located at 142 FM 3167 in Rio Grande City. Admission is free and open to the public.

“The STC Library Art Gallery’s collaboration with Roma high school is still going strong and is now entering into its 6th year,” said Dawn Haughey, STC Library Art Gallery associate. “Every year’s submissions are always different from the last, reinforcing Roma’s reputation as an incubator for highly inventive art students; many thanks to the students and teachers that make this exhibit possible each year.”

The exhibit features mixed media artwork by freshman, sophomore, junior and senior Roma High School students.

For more information, contact Terri Rosalez at mtrosalez@southtexascollege.edu or 956-488-5822; or Dawn Haughey at 956-872-3488 or dhaughey@southtexascollege.edu, or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/newsevents/libraryartgallery/.

Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy

June 6, 2014Library Art Gallery, Pecan Campus, Previous Exhibitsgotvos

STC to display Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy

South Texas College’s Pecan Campus Library will present “Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy,” an exhibition created by the Wittliff Collections at the Texas State University-San Marcos Alkek Library and presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This exhibition is made possible in part by a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibit will be on display from June 16 to July 28, 2014 at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room, located at 3201 W. Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. Admission is free and open to the public.

In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered Bill Wittliff a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit a ranch in Northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cow herders learned to work cattle from a horse’s back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition.

The exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.

For more information, contact Dawn Haughey at 956-872-3488, libraryart@southtexascollege.edu or visit http://lag.southtexascollege.edu.

READ! – Dr. Wallace Johnson recommends…

June 4, 2014Our Collections, READ PostersElizabeth Hollenbeck

The South Texas College Library is proud to continue to debut our second series of READ Posters.

This week we are featuring Dr. Wallace Johnson and his book recommendations. Dr. Johnson teaches with the Political Science Department at the Pecan campus. He has been teaching at the college since 1999.

We are proud to have a selection of books that Dr. Wallace Johnson recommends for everyone to read. Check out his selections below!

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Lincoln by Gore Vidal

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (add authors)

The Essence of Decision by Graham Allison

Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam

Remembering Maya Angelou – Book Display

May 28, 2014Book Displays, Our CollectionsElizabeth Hollenbeck

Maya Angelou, April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014

In memory to the award winning author and poet, check out one of Maya Angelou’s great reads. Here are a few titles to get started, but you can find many more in our collection.

#1) I know why the caged bird sing – E 185.97 .A56 A3 1971

#2) All God’s children need traveling shoes – PS 3551 .N464 Z463 1991

#3) Gather together in my name – PS 3551 .N464 Z464 1974

#4) The heart of a woman – PS 3551 .N464 Z465 1997

#5) Even the stars look lonesome – PS 3551 .N464 E94 1998

#6) The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou 1st ed. – PS 3551 .N464 A17 1994

#7) Wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now – PS 3551 .N464 W68 1994

#8) I shall not be moved – PS 3551 .N464 I17 1991

#9) Mom & me & mom – PS 3551 .N464 Z46 2013

#10) The Power of speech, video recording – PN 4121 .P69 2004 DVD

Contributed by Maureen Mitchell

READ! – Ms. Melba Treviño recommends…

May 16, 2014Our Collections, READ PostersElizabeth Hollenbeck

The South Texas College Library is proud to continue to debut our second series of READ Posters.

This week we are featuring Ms. Melba Treviño and her book recommendations. Ms. Treviño serves as Interim Dean for the Nursing and Allied Health campus. She has been teaching at the college since 1995.

We are proud to have a selection of books that Ms. Melba Treviño recommends for everyone to read. Check out her selections below!

Heart-shaped cookies : and other stories by David Rice

90 minutes in heaven : a true story of death & life by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Angels & demons by Dan Brown

Daddy’s gone a hunting by Mary Higgins Clark

The 9th judgment by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

2013 Additions

May 9, 2014Library Art Gallery, Previous Exhibits, Technology Campusgotvos

South Texas College’s Technology Campus Library presents “2013 Additions: Newly Acquired Pieces,” an exhibit featuring artworks by Lenard Brown, Noel Palmenez and others. The exhibit opens Thursday, June 19, 2014 and will be on view through Friday, Aug. 8 at the college’s Technology Campus Library Art Gallery, located at 3700 W. Military Hwy. in McAllen. Admission is free and open to the public.

The exhibit features works of art that have been donated to STC, during the 2013 school year, by various artists who have exhibited at one of the college’s five library art galleries throughout the Rio Grande Valley in Hidalgo and Starr counties. These artists include Lenard Brown, Delvis Cortez, Olga Escobedo, Adrian Luna, Imanol Miranda, Noel Palmenez and Travis Trapp.

“It’s always interesting to be able to bring together all of our recently donated works of art into one exhibit,” said Dawn Haughey, STC Library Art Gallery associate. “It creates a type of visual timeline of what we have exhibited over the past year. We are always grateful for all of our amazing donations and are happy to share them with all of STC’s campuses so that everyone has a chance to enjoy them.”

For more information, contact Maxmilian Garcia at max@southtexascollege.edu, (956) 872-6207; or Dawn Haughey at (956) 872-3488, dhaughey@southtexascollege.edu or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/newsevents/libraryartgallery/.

Harmony

May 9, 2014Library Art Gallery, NAH Campus, Previous Exhibitsgotvos

South Texas College’s Nursing and Allied Health Campus Library presents “Harmony,” an exhibit featuring digital artworks by Rolando D. Garza. The exhibit opens Thursday, June 19, 2014 and will be on view through Friday, Aug. 8. An artist talk will be held on July 3 at 3:30 p.m. at the college’s NAH Campus, located at 1101 E. Vermont Ave. in McAllen. Admission is free and open to the public.

Garza’s playful digital works are greatly influenced by science fiction, geometry, nature, movies and music. He says that his art is constantly evolving and believes that by promoting the arts he will help make the Valley a more beautiful place.

“Garza’s work is fresh, bold and fun,” said Dawn Haughey, STC Library Art Gallery associate. “Whether we realize it or not, digital art is a huge part of our everyday lives. We see it everywhere we go, on billboards, the internet, even on packaged food items. It is important to exhibit digital artwork, as well as more traditional painted or photographed works, so that it can be appreciated and recognized as a true art form.”

Garza received a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Texas-Pan American. His background includes work in engineering, computer science, psychology, sculpture and art.

For more information, contact Jose Noriega at josen@southtexascollege.edu, (956) 872-3189; or Dawn Haughey at (956) 872-3488, dhaughey@southtexascollege.edu or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/newsevents/libraryartgallery/.