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Hope you are doing well! Thought this was about the Whyte museum exhibition (also called meltdown) at first. Looks like an interesting book on similar topics. Hoping ualberta library has a copy I can grab :)

Work by Penelope lovely (moon tiger, making it up, city of the mind, how it all began, pack of cards) white heat by MJ McGrath, and river if starts and under heaven by guy caraval kay

Web design navigation, design rules for letterheads, thinking with type, Knoxville, one financial habit that could change your life, Ann patcher a happy marriage and GDC handbook

Don delillo's white noise, scarry on beauty and being just, birkerts changing the subject, the take guide to modern art terms, and the art prophets by Richard polsky

Edmonton folks, I continue to clear out books. Please DM if any of the below jumps out to you, and I can drop them off. Free books are best books :)

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Print in black and white featuring a bat hanging upside-down above a spider on a web

#Printmaker Gertrude Hermes,
Bat and Spider, wood engraving, 1932 #womensart

#Halloween 🎃 🕸 🦇

Hey Alberta - Why Isn't This Bigger News? Republic Party of Alberta, Cameron Davies, once again, caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

Separatism is not fringe, its funded:

“The funding web is tangled. Follow the money far enough and you run into oil interests, private health lobbying, & U.S. ideological networks. It’s easier, I guess for the public media, & probably safer, to look away.” #abpoll
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That said, if a general statement would help there, I could try to add something? Books have always been appreciate d for my research in art, and ebooks just don't cut it for me when it's something complex or philosophical you need to think on, which covers most of the collection at u of a.

Knowing this I will definitely try to get over there this week to go at least once. I had a few things I found over summer but then got locked out, (ATS, account would not log in) and of course now teaching is the focus so never did manage it. Thank you very much for all of the information you sent!

That's good to know and thanks for link to go through. I'm not sure if my voice would help as much (I'm interested because I had not known about this before traveling to Svalbard in April, and was happy to discover it once back) so I've never actually been to the collection.

I did not realise that was moving, has that begun or coming up? I had meant to get there this term (although have not managed yet) before now. Glad materials still accessible at least, but part of the fun is always finding one then others nearby on the shelf.

Several test cyanotype prints with various exposures, one showing Murreysbreen glacier, and the second near Lilliehooke with some sea ice along the glacier front. The images are small, 5x7 inches....but still big enough to see small dots from people within the large snowy landwcape

A closeup of a line of hikers near Murreysbreen, finger pointing out the dark figures against the snow. Dark blue ice becons

A finger points out two figures atop a hillock, dark against the lighter blue snow. Mountain and cloud behind frame the expansive landscape of Svalbard captured here in cyanotype print form

#Cyanotype day. Teeny tiny people in test prints, and if they go well a larger image perhaps.

Is there a corresponding chart of self awarded MLA pay raises over the same timeline?

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I'm tied up next week but most times after that drop a line anytime you are by snap, not far from MacEwan :). I need to post the McMullen show stuff here too, behind. It's up till sept 14th if you are nearby the u of a hospital

Awesome! All the best with that effort. I heard Strathcona farmers market guilded rabbit and replenish also have that too and pointing people that way. Husband and I going there this weekend

Ask tough questions. Not sure if you went or no but ask them in person and on paper.

A blue cyanotype sits on white towels after being blotted. It is still slightly wet. The enormous face of a glacier with shattered ice, cracks and ice boulders from recent calving can be seen with a thin line of ocean along the bottom. A very small walrus sits on the lower right side. For scale, that is about the height of an average adult human. The image was taken in Svalbard April 2025 as part of the Arctic circle residency.

I am ridiculously happy about this silly walrus finally working out in cyanotype. Sneak peak for next week's show 'Blue' at McMullen Gallery, Edmonton. A show to pause and rest within, I hope. Something very needed.

A watercolour pad shows a painted image of yellow, pink and purple snow on arctic mountains, leading into a glacier in the foreground with bright teal ice. Below the pad of paper is a tin of Stoneground paint and a hand holding the paper in place.

Watercolour work in progress at the yegartwalk today. Golden midnight sun on Svalbard.

Beautiful line!

A large round sticker on a tiled floor or sidewalk depicting the Star Wars Death Star labeled as UCP Government destroying a hospital with it's laser beams. The caption on the sticker reads: Witness the destructive power of this fully privatized healthcare system.

Exciting!

Soon Albertans all over the province will know just how little we care about their health and how much we care about privatizing the healthcare system!

Allowing you to receive the lowest quality of care while our wealthy friends get rich!

#abpoli #UCPCorruption

Yes!

#svalbard #arctic #articexpedition #arcticcircle #thearcticcircle #thearcticcircleresidency #artistsinthearctic #artistresidency #art #artresidency #polarexpedition #polarsailing #tallship #svrembrandtvanrijn #climatechange #glacialmelt

A large wall of glacier ice towers above the steel grey sea. A small rock outcropping is visible at left, and a small dark brown shape at lower right near sea level. A foolish walrus is sitting right where the glacier will one day calve again. The ice is in shade but still a deeper hint of blue comes through along the glacier face

A calm sea provides a reflection of the glacier, with ice floe drifting in front. The sun is backlighting some of the seracs as they stand vertical, tall, ready to split and melt, and become a new iceberg. Lillihooke glacier in Svalbard

A close up of a small iceberg (called a growler) showing the colour and the ice banding that comes from being under intense pressure when it was a glacier ice. The water is clear and some can be seen underwater as well in shades of blue

A small stretch of open water at sea is filling in and freezing into thin sea ice, pancakes that drift and spin, freezing our ship in place for the night. Midnight sun gives a twilight feel of blues and a hint of orange along the horizon

I’ve been going through images and thoughts from the Arctic Circle residency. It was an incredible trip, and a privilege to spend time in such a beautiful, fragile space, with so many other wonderful humans. Especially right niw, the focus on simply being, and making in that landscape was a gift.

What Robin said.

Daylight along the horizon, stars and a soft green band of northern lights in the sky, bisected by a plane wing with tip turned up. Just dark enough to see the Aurora!

I did not think I would see the northern lights this trip; it will be midnight sun 3 days after arrival to Svalbard. But, the plane was juuuust south enough on the way to Oslo to see these through the night. Magical. (Also my phone, as I did not have the right lens easy to grab. Oops.)

Beautiful sense of the clouds and light!

Finally the Recall Process has begun in Calgary UCP held ridings. Finally. Only those living in a Recall area can sign or act as volunteer so please connect at @abresistance.bsky.social @th3gravitywell.bsky.social We are supporting you Calgary-Bow

Love the detail in the fern curls!

A #printpromptmonday graphic with a rabbit tooting a trumpet and text showings the April prompts as follows: 7th Friends 14th Favourite Piece 21st Earth 28th Portrait

Ready for some April prints everyone? Gettem hot n fresh here!

@printsbythebay.bsky.social, @strangford.bsky.social and I have concocted these beauties, get stuck in and don’t forget to please *share the graphic around* - it really helps us spread the word ❤️

Read below for some tips…

So much detail in each layer. Beautiful work!

A hand and pen sit by the blue cyanorypes for scale, small versions of the final prints. The lake side of bighorn Dam is shown on the left and the lake side spillway on the right. The water level is at least 25 ft higher than the last time I was there. Photos taken Oct 2024

Larger blue cyanotype prints on mitsumata paper sit out, freshly exposed. The first one is darker, and the left one is most recent and lighter. Over the next 24 hours they will darken more. Once ready I will cut them down to 15x20 inches and chincolle or glue them onto white backing sheets of Somerset paper.

The small versions this week came out well, so scaling up a bit. One paper had spots on it but oh well. From Oct at Bighorn Dam spillway. Downstream from all the glacier work, upstream from Edmonton.

#cyanotype #blueprint #analoguephoto #photography #watershed #northsaskatchewanriver #abrahamlake