Still enjoying this fabric-paper juxtaposition (and beads) in our current Hanson gallery exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! www.newberry.org/calendar/col...
Suzanne Karr Schmidt
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI Mostly Chicago. She/her
Who wore it better? Nope not a map, but still, part of the Ortelius checklist fun @newberrylibrary.bsky.social
Chicago! Join me and @lecturesontap.bsky.social for a fun evening on Nov 3 if you like drinking in groundbreaking art and textile history! Tickets available now👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...
Now taking notes on water fixtures from... Emperor Nero, are we?
It's my birthday and all I got was 5,000 secret printed fabric exhibition takeaways to hand dye and cut out before December 10...
Cats AND Dogs? Had the opportunity Friday to peruse a 1920s Dean's Rag Book catalogue from the Hanna Gray Special Collections at the University of Chicago. While the logo shows dogs unable to tear their indestructible books (printed on fabric), there are feline designs too! #Caturday #Fluffikits
Gave an accidentally alfresco printed fabric book talk down in Hyde Park yesterday! Excellent start to the Impressive Textiles book tour! @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Not me writing another 9,000 words, this time, alt text, for the upcoming Open Access version of Impressive Textiles... (Was nearly 350 pages not enough?) 😂📚🧶 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Impressive Textiles
From reproductions of Dürer copperplates to twenty-first-century apparel, this exhibition explores the history of images printed on fabric. Printing images and texts on luxurious fabrics instead of pa...
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Things... On Maps? The Ortelius exhibition @newberrylibrary will include this de Wit (Novacco 4F 36 (PrCt)). We'll probably not be able to show what's on the back, though... maybe on the label? 🤔🌹 Zoom in here! collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...
Hear Eleanor Janega Today! 4 PM Free at the Newberry! www.newberry.org/calendar/col... @goingmedieval.bsky.social
Textile Tuesday? Might have to get back into this habit as we close in on the Impressive Textiles book (Oct 27!) and exhibition (Dec 10)!
Eleanor Janega! Medieval Women! Wednesday, 4 pm! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! www.newberry.org/calendar/col...
Disaster Training! Had the *planned* opportunity to see how well staff from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social would respond to an emergency this week! Happy to say we rescued most of the books, photos, and ephemera even if some of the damp VHS tape topics gave us pause!
🧦🪙 Sock It To Me 🪙🧦 Ever heard of a Sock Social? C. 1907, you were supposed to fill your sockvitation with pennies for a good cause! The Ladies' Aid Society of Bridgeport Illinois even printed an explanatory verse on the verso! 👇
Seeing Double? Just met Kelly outside the Newberry, who is painting the Newberry!! Check out her other work on kellydawsonfineart.com. And remember, we have a select few artist short term fellowships for next year. Apply by December 4! www.newberry.org/research/fel...
What's On YOUR Garter? With only 62 characters, spaces included, the very direct letterpress messaging on this silk scrap raises SO many questions! Did the wearer's lover give it to her? And HOW many did they have printed? 🤔 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case oversize GT2128 .G37 1750) #NewAcq 1/2
Care for some Kubašta? The Day of the Bison Hunt, 1962 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social #PopUptober
I for one am ready to join the Papal brigades in the fight against the machines. Are these the machines?
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 3w agoI for one am ready to join the Papal brigades in the fight against the machines.
I'm the Pope, I might not know much about art, but I know what I like?
The Pop-Up Newberry on September 30 and October 1
It is very auspicious that two graduates of the same undergrad art history program have such IMPRESSIVEly titled books coming out, and, having gotten a preview of this one, I can assure you it's not something you want to miss.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4w agoImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
Might have an impressive announcement to make tomorrow morning...
