#visiting classes

[uwmspeccoll]

In the Land of Tiny Books

Our Head of Special Collections Max Yela has collaborated for decades with Milwaukee artist and art professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) Leslie Fedorchuk (on the left in the first image; Max is on the right). This semester, Leslie is teaching a MIAD course called "Magical Miniatures" and she brought her class over for a discussion and review of artists books that use small scale as expression.

While Max is not very fond of miniatures or the miniaturization of books, he does like books that are small for compositional reasons. In fact, one of his favorite artists books, In Here Out There (third image) by the late Minnesota artist Jody Williams, is quite small (5 x 7 cm). Since we hold about 95% of Jody Williams's work and about 90% of the small editioned work of Peter & Donna Thomas, after a discussion, the class spent time reviewing selected works by these artists, plus about a dozen others by local book artists.

This was the first time these art students, many of them Juniors and Seniors, had ever encountered artists books before, and all expressed that it was a transformative experience. We look forward to seeing some of the book work that comes out of the assignments for this class!

The photographs shown here were taken by MIAD Web Content Specialist Olivia Langby.

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#instruction sessions #classes #visiting classes #MIAD #MIAD students #art students #artists books #small books #miniature books #Leslie Fedorchuk #Max Yela #Jody Williams #Peter and Donna Thomas #Olivia Langby

[cultdionysus]

Roman statue of Apollo from a local art museum

#he’s like 9 ft tall #we took a field trip for my class but it’s a free museum so I’ve visited quite a few times #the statue next to him is a gladiator #Apollo #hellenistic polytheism #hellenistic pagan #hellenism #apollo devotion #apollo deity #apollo worship #greek god apollo #.png #.txt

[icantalk710]

Argh, the post-jog energy boost made me drop my phone... phew, there we go 🙂

#ore no kao #gay #it was in the low 40s but gorgeous out so i thought to go jogging a bit further into the park #need to finally visit the Cloisters now that i'm nearby #was also going to squeeze in leg day at the gym but it's gotten too late so i'll just do it after Spin class Tuesday #...might've gone a bit photo-crazy from the endorphins hehe #maybe i'll post another later hmm #[or share with moots either/or]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

my all-time favorite False Childhood Memory is the time Mister Rogers guest-starred for an episode of The Magic School Bus. I can find no record of this actually happening but I remember it vividly and by gosh mcgolly wouldn't that have been the niftiest beans

#in my memory it started out Roger Rabbit style (w/ Real World Mr Rogers being visited by cartoon characters) #and then the Bus transformed into a machine that transformed MISTER ROGERS into a cartoon #and then he hopped on the Bus to join the class for a Standard Educational-Yet-Traumatic Magical Field Trip #also the animation style was suspiciously similar to the time the Supernatural Bros guest starred on Scooby Doo #so that really should have tipped me off about the reliability of this specific memory #(also i remember being really anxious about whether or not Mr Rogers would be permanently stuck in the toon world #so in hindsight this was probably just another weirdly vivid stress dream i get those a lot #and they can be a Wild Ride (magic school bus theme song callback) #as anyone who stuck around with me through the Clown Deli Meat Dream Post can testify #)

[levi-lev]

Spoilers for chapter 314 of TSCTIR

(should i make a cleaner version ?)

#When your bf looses sight for you and still visit you when he hasn't even recovered #when you don't remember him fully but still pull him to you #when you offer your eyes as compensation for his #THEY ARE UNSUFFERABLE #OF COURSE YOOJIN COULDN'T KEEP THE WORD AMAZING OUT OF HIS MOUTH WHILE DESCIBING SUNG HYUNJAE EVEN TO SUNG HYUNJAE HIMSELF #URGH #THAT MUCH SUGAR IS ILLEGAL #JAIL #han yoojin #sung hyunjae #fanart #mine #the s classes that i raised #jinjae #sctir #tsctir #90% of this is canon btw #i just cut bits here and there #the og text is just as gay tho.

[sssapplebottomjeans]

varian during qfad: help me please, my dad is dying, you're the only one that can help! *gets kicked out of the castle*

rapunzel: oh my god oh my god oh my god i just turned my back on a desperate friend in need...

rapunzel like one episode later:

#drawing #rapunzles tangled adventure #tangled the series #tts #varian tts #rapunzel #rapunzel tangled #i love raps to pieces but it's so funny how she's like “i shall take a PAINTING class to get keep my mind off the guilt :D” #like homegirl go visit him #granted he'd already decided on the whole villain arc thing #but it probably wouldn't have gone as out of hand as it did

[julykings]

this week eek eek

#second week of teaching Done Tuesday felt like public humiliation but today was actually gooood I think !!!!!!! #and I’ve been having fun experimenting with fun techniques #my bf and I found our new fav restaurant and new fav margs hehehe it’s become our weekend thing #also I cooked with brown beech mushrooms for the first time .. life changing #and a former prof came to visit me before class he’s so good to talk to and really gave me a confidence boost / pep talk lol !!!! #personal

[channnel]

Urogi got a little something for his bro

#demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #kimetsu fanart #hantengu #hantengu clones #sekido #urogi #modern au #my art #been a while since i drew some hantengu but here it is! #this idea has been sitting on my head for a long time and i just finished it today during class #practicing background so uhhh- ignore the lackluster color of the bg #i think the door is too big #sekido is obviously the mother and the father of the family #karaku and urogi drags aizetsu and sometimes zohakuten to their shenanigans but aizetsu is the one who keeps getting caught #hantengu is either their senile grandpa or their weird looking father- the brothers doesnt really know either #they just know they’re related to each other #gyokko occasionally visits but his prescence just made the brothers confused on how old hantengu is

[thepettymachine]

While Ashley is getting her general course classes out of the way online, she joined the Criminal career to pay for tuition.

Also her drinks and outings with friends

#sims #sims 3 #ts3 #ts3 gameplay #ts3 legacy #day legacy #day gen2 #ashley day #im using the online college mod and testing it out but she kept wishing to visit actual school so i quit half way of testing because of #so i like to think she got her general ed classes out of the way before going off to get her Communications degree

[thatsrightice]

Tom “Iceman” Kazansky being a nerd and reading all the time, but especially NATOPs for other jets.

#iceman probably #the first one is from during the filming of top gun #iceman is def a nerd but like a cool nerd #he’s the reason slider goose cougar and merlin got through super difficult classes at the academy #he made sure they understood everything tho he ain’t helping them cheat #he frequently visits the carrier’s library #Maverick wouldn’t touch a book with a 10 ft pole #Val Kilmer #Val Kilmer reading #top gun #tom kazansky #top gun: maverick #iceman #top gun maverick #top gun iceman #pete mitchell #icemav #the boys #the boys but literally just iceman #he follows the rules #slice #my boys #top gun cougar #top gun merlin #top gun goose #Nick Bradshaw #mine #behind the scenes

[nando161mando]

As the half Israelie I'm not just ashamed, but also feel responsible for the attrocities Israel does to Palestinians. And not just the current situation, but since the start of Nakba in 1948. This is beyond massacre, it's another catastrophe that Palestinians experiences. And yeah, I'm also shameful that Israelies would block the track and litterly cheering on the innocent death of people.

I do also boycott products that support Israel and I even start educating myself about Palestine. Plus I also watch news and I share/talk with a few online friends about it. So as a half Israelie I do support Palestine and once I'm able to afford to live somewhere else, I plan to get out of from Israhell.

I understand even the working class (slavery class) is oppressed majorly under the israel nazi fascist zionist dictatorship/regime, which 99.9% of humans on earth are oppressed by fascist nazi capitalist control systems, and not all israelis are to blame for whats happening in Palestine as many of us understand the Israhell government would assassinate people in israel trying to stand in support of Palestine. Solidarity and keep fighting, fascists have no right to exist on earth. Peace 🚩🏴

#free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #palestine #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #gaza #israel #israhell #benjamin netanyahu #fuck netanyahu #netanyahu a criminal of war #bibi netanyahu #elon musk ‘to make shock visit to israel to meet netanyahu next week’ after furious row over ‘anti semitism on x site’ #class war #genocide #no pride in genocide #zionistterror #zionistcensorship #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government

[blaithnne]

I like to think there’s some sort of magical council in Trolberg, where representatives from all the main forms of magical creatures and practitioners come together to discuss how things are going and work out any disagreements going on between them.

And since I’m pretty sure there’s no other fae in Trolberg, I think that leaves Johanna as the fairy representative and that is SO funny

#I think that after her memories were unblocked so too were any spells masking the fact that she was a fairy from other magical creatures #so like. she gets a visit from the committee of three or something being like hi weve detected the presence of fae in Trolberg #and you have the highest rate of magic so you’re cordially invited to our meeting #and she’s like. huh #anyways I think once there she’d end up being sort of a mediator #since thanks to Hilda she knows a lot about all the main magic classes #but very little abt fae lol #ppl ask her how things are going with the fae and she’s like oh it’s good #we had lunch yesterday? #hilda #hilda the series #netflix hilda #hilda netflix #Johanna hilda #Hilda johanna

[decarbry]

a frequent visitor

#boku no hero academia fanart #Yabureme Aizawa AU #nomu aizawa #shouta aizawa #principal nezu #this is a response to an anon but it had a second prompt so I didn't want to answer it and then forget about the second one #but ya Nezu is one of the faculty that comes by super often when Yabureme is in Tartarus #there's always been a powerful mutual trust between these two before he was taken and Nezu only wants to help #the first time Yabureme is in Tartarus he is completely unresponsive but Nezu visits him every few days anyway in an effort to get #a response out of him. it doesn't work #but during his second stint in Tartarus he's more lucid and Nezu becomes a huge comfort as Aizawa is rediscovering himself #he's the reason Aizawa eventually relents and agrees to see his class again. he is totally resistant to the idea bc he knows he hurt them #MULTIPLE times. plus he was barely their teacher so he shouldn't be that big of a deal to them right? they knew him for like a week #when Yabuzawa is his own free agent again Nezu helps him bear the weight of his trauma and they bond over shared experiences as experiments #canon Nezu and Aizawa are cute and funny and wholesome bc of the whole cuddle-in-the-scarf thing but it's way deeper than that #Nezu is one of the only ones that Aizawa knew respected him for his abilities as a teacher vs just his useful quirk. Nezu gave him his job #and believed in him so much that he let him do whatever he wanted in pursuit of teaching students who would live longer #and less foolishly. Nezu/Aizawa are friends and value each other a great deal thanks xoxoxo

[probablyasocialecologist]

Polling data on Roe finds that Americans support the 1973 ruling by a ratio of two-to-one; just 28 percent of the voting public want it struck down. You can also tell because some of the Supreme Court justices who signed on to the majority draft have been greeted by protestors outside their house for the past two weeks. Republicans, who spent the past year defending the Jan. 6 insurrection as “tourism,” and some Democrats, who never miss a chance to scold the activist wing of their own party, have handled this with typical aplomb. I’d guess privacy sounds fine right about now.

On an unrelated note, here’s the Gawker Review of Supreme Court Justice Houses.

#usa #supreme court #how do you do fellow architecture enthusiasts #always good to pay your ruling class a friendly visit :)

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

#we follow Derek from New York. Laura left for beacon hills. it’s been six years since he was back but he hasn’t heard from her #and hes going stir crazy waiting. he packs up and travels back. it’s almost too much immediately. he still can’t get a hold of Laura #he can’t resist going home. it’s like a natural pull that guides him back. all at once he’s 16 again. staring at the wreckage of his life #deputy stilinski is sherrif now. it’s reassuring in the slightest that the police force seems to have moved on from how corrupt it was #he catches her scent and it’s putrid. bile catches in his throat. he seeks it out. still in denial to what he knows it means. #when he finds Laura it’s like the world ends all over again. he can’t stand to see her like this. he gives her a proper burial. #the best he can do at least #he visits Peter. he’s not the man Derek remembers- so full of fire and cunning. their relationship may have been strained at times. #often Derek felt more like Eve being swayed by the snake than a normal friendship #but this isn’t the sharp tongued uncle who guided him. this is a broken shell. all that remained of his family. he was so lost. #22 but he barely knew how to function without his family- his pack paving the way #Laura handled everything. she got the apartment. she made sure they had food. Derek looks back and feels so useless #he was so lost in his grief. Laura must of felt the same way but she never let them drown in it #she made sure he got his GED. even got him to enroll in community college classes. #he took them online. he never was able to warm up to people the same way. he used to be so full of life. now he just wanted to be left alone #he studied English. never finished his degree. doesn’t look like he ever will now. he can’t go back to Laura and his shared home. #can’t bare to see another shell of a home #he vents to the vacant audience of Peter and his cold fixed eyes #Derek leaves. he wants to promise he’ll return soon #but promises feel costly these days #he decides to go back to the reserve. maybe he can find some clue as to what happened to Laura #someone lured her here. someone who knew them and their history here #his mind went to the worst. Kate. why would she go through the trouble six years later. why wait so long. #Derek couldn’t stomach the thought of facing her. he focused on the woods. the scents were all over the place. #clearly multiple people had been through here recently. two scents were much stronger. Derek follows them #but when he hears the crunch of leaves he realizes why the scents are so strong. they’re still here #he ducks behind some trees. listening in on their conversation. but an echo of their scent catches his attention #he spots an inhaler on the ground. he puts two and two together and swipes it from the leaves. #he comes out once they’re closer. tossing over the inhaler- he figures they’ll leave. dumb kids messing around in the woods #he reminds them this is private property. though that may not be true anymore. he recognizes the scent of a new beta. interesting.

[wutheringmights]

next ctb will probably not be next week but the week after, if only because i can't use my saturdays to binge write this month

#between my pottery class on saturday and my sibling visiting next week no binge writing for me #which is sad because if i could just give myself 12 uninterrupted hours of time i would word vomit the rest of this chapter easily #i'm doing really good on the word count too! at 17k im at the main point of the present day at last and i technically already have 2k of th #past already written though they need major rewrites :P #hahahaha i am feeling so good about this chapter right now i hope nothing happens to turn it into a miserable experience for me #me rambling #lu ctb