New in the 1st Floor Small Works Vending Machines! Stickers by Charles Xzavier!

Thriftstore Redux

A first look at our Thriftstore Redux display, featuring work created during our Junk Art, Found Art, and Upcycling workshop on February 23rd.   Even better, there are brand spanking new mini prints in the vending machines of some of the altered images available for only $1 each.

Love is In the Air!!!

  For the next couple weeks we invite you to help celebrate V-Day with the Aesthetics of Research crew.  Come in and see our Blind Date With A Book Display on the First Floor, where you can peruse the offerings and  take home a good catch. Or check out our new selection of Valentines from Columbia College artists in the vending machines., including monster valentines from Jennifer Sauzer and a whole slew of Villaintines, featuring all your favorite cinematic bad guys (and girls!)

SMALL WORKS: Unusual Creatures Mini-Prints

There are new mini prints in the Small Works vending machines in conjunction with our Creepy Curiosities exhibit on the 1st Floor.  It's a small edition with three different prints, so get them before they're gone....

As part of our Library Fellows Project this fall, Aesthetics of Research is partnering with faculty member Andrew Causey to explore the library and it\s role in creating community. particularly when it comes to the "gifted object".  Causey's Visual Anthropology class talks a bit about their experiences with Muddalions here.

http://aestheticsofresearch.blogspot.com/p/conversations.html


(also, you can get your own Muddallion (to give or keep for yourself) in the library's first floor vending machines..)

Be sure to stop by our small works vending machines this summer on the first floor.  We currently have all sorts of goodies and will be switching them out periodically, so check back often!

also new in the vending machines!

To kick off the summer, we have some tiny original drawings inhabiting one of  the 1st Floor vending machines for only $1. There are only a few, so stop in to get yours now.

Muddallions | Now in the Vending Machine!

A collaboration between Aesthetics of Research and LAS faculty member Andrew Causey, Muddalions are meant as a gift, a charm, something that can bridge relationships in an otherwise virtual world.  The charm can be threaded with a string to be a pendant, tied as an ornament on your wrist, attached to your bookbag.  It can be something you give or something you leave behind as a tangible surprise for an unknown other to find.

If you'd like to tell us your experience in giving away this little Muddallion, share at:

http://aestheticsofresearch.blogspot.com/p/converstations.html

We would love to hear your stories!

We've been trying out the library's new button maker with some cool upcycled book buttons. It's a freebie sneak peek for the art buttons that will be filling our vending machine later this year. Stop in on the first floor of Columbia College Library and get your favorite while they're available...

new in the vending machines!

Limited Edition Valentines/ Mini-Prints by Kristy Bowen.

Machines are located on the 1st Floor of the library, 624 S Michigan.