Year: 2015

Now online: Potter Iron Studios Digital Collection

Drawings from the Potter Art Iron Studios [also known as the Potter Art Metal Studios] are now available to view online! If you have ever walked around the Highland Park Shopping Center or driven down Swiss Avenue and Lakewood Boulevard in Dallas, most likely you have admired the beautiful wrought iron fixtures that adorn these…Continue Reading Now online: Potter Iron Studios Digital Collection

CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2015

In September 2015, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 373 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 49,080 published items. Highlights include: 79 items from the Hervey A. Priddy Collection of American Presidential and Political Memorabilia, including political and/or campaign-related items from elections spanning 1860-2004. Items include ferrotypes, stickpins, brooches, nose thumbers, charms, lapel…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2015

Watch: Reflections of the Hamon Arts Library

The Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library is a four-story building located in the Owen Arts Center of the Meadows School of the Arts. A branch of the Central University Libraries, Hamon serves students and faculty in the areas of visual art, art history, cinema, communications, dance, music and theatre. This fall, the library celebrates…Continue Reading Watch: Reflections of the Hamon Arts Library

Fashion Design Sketches by Nancy B. Hamon

Untitled, ca. 1933-1942 by Nancy Hamon.

Fashion Design Sketches by Nancy B. Hamon Nancy Hamon was born on December 12, 1918 in San Antonio, Texas to McMaster Blackburn and Estelle Blackburn (known as Mamacita). She studied paleontology at the University of Texas at Austin in the late 1930s for a short time before leaving for her first marriage which lasted only…Continue Reading Fashion Design Sketches by Nancy B. Hamon

How to (legally) use copyrighted images in your blog

Understanding whether you have used an image legally or not can seem very confusing. Many bloggers just rely on the chance that they will not get found out which doesn’t always turn out well, especially if you use images from a photographer who is particularly vigilant in pursuing rights. Also, just because you cited the…Continue Reading How to (legally) use copyrighted images in your blog

CUL Digital Collections Update: August 2015

In August 2015, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 215 items into CUL Digital Collections. CUL now has approximately 48,713 published items. Highlights include: 11 photographs by Abel Briquet, ca. 1885-1899, from Views in Mexico. 33 postcards of Monterrey and Nuevo Leon, Mexico, from the Collection of Early Postcards of Mexico. 7 stereographs of Puebla and…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: August 2015

Installation is underway: Fashion Design Sketches by Nancy B. Hamon

Fashion Design Sketches by Nancy B. Hamon will open on September 24 in the Mildred Hawn Gallery….Continue Reading Installation is underway: Fashion Design Sketches by Nancy B. Hamon

Interview with French artist Hugo Capron, Exhibition Running through 8/29 at the Pollock Gallery

As part of a new fellowship program between SMU and École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (ENSA) in Dijon, France, French artist and student Hugo Capron is exhibiting his work at SMU’s Pollock Gallery from August 10-29.  We were able to interview Hugo about his art and his experience in Dallas thus far….Continue Reading Interview with French artist Hugo Capron, Exhibition Running through 8/29 at the Pollock Gallery

 

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