Art is an integral part of the SIUE campus and community, and is ever-changing. You can participate by sharing a favorite artist and/or work of art, and learn more about art on campus. The upcoming annual sculpture walk will be held at 4pm on Friday October 6, 2017.
Participate in the two question poll here: Favorite artist and/or work of art Poll
View the interactive map of the 2017 SIUE Sculpture Walk sculptures with images and linked interviews with the artists.
A total eclipse of the sun travelled a 70 mile wide path through the United States from west to east on Monday August 21, 2017. SIUE is located on the edge of this path and witnessed 99.5% totality at 1:18pm local time where the moon blocking the sun appeared like a diamond ring in the sky. The interactive eclipse map shows the exact time of the starting and ending of the eclipse at a specific location.
The SIUE community built a program for the public, students, faculty, staff, elementary students, and educators to enjoy and learn from this rare event. For more information, visit the official SIUE eclipse page: SIUE Solar Eclipse
Use this interactive eclipse map created by Xavier M Jubier to find locations within the path of the total eclipse, time of total eclipse, areas of partial eclipse, with start and end times. To view interactive maps of future eclipses, select a date from the list HERE.
FICTION BOOKS WITH SOLAR ECLIPSES
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by
One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, foundingthe first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the VictorianEngland of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization. Widely regarded as one of the first science fiction novels, this edition also features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, our own twentieth century master of satiric social commentary and science fiction. Italso features the original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, whose drawings brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire: sharp-eyed readers, for instance, will spot that the model for Merlin, Hank's nemesis, is none other than Tennyson, whose Idyllsof the King made the romantic vision of King Arthur's court nearly a sacred Victorian cult. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest.
Gerald's Game by
Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.
What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Patrons were able to add their favorite ice cream flavor to a scoop in honor of national ice cream month. Participate in the one question poll here: Favorite Ice Cream Flavor Poll
The Science of Ice Cream by
Ice cream as we recognize it today has been in existence for at least 300 years, though its origins probably go much further back in time. Though no one knows who invented ice cream. The first ice cream making machine was invented by Nancy Johnson, of Philadelphia, in the 1840s. The Science of Ice Cream begins with an introductory chapter on the history of ice cream. Subsequent chapters outline the physical chemistry underlying its manufacture, describe the ingredients and industrial production of ice cream and ice cream products respectively, detail the wide range of different physical and sensory techniques used to measure and assess ice cream, describe its microstructure (i.e. ice crystals, air bubbles, fat droplets and sugar solution), and how this relates to the physical properties and ultimately the texture that you experience when you eat it. Finally, some suggestions are provided for experiments relating to ice cream and ways to make ice cream at home or in a school laboratory. The Science of Ice Cream is ideal for undergraduate food science students as well as for people working in the ice cream industry. It is also accessible to the general reader who has studied science to A level and provides teachers with ideas for using ice cream to illustrate scientific principles.
Ben and Jerry's Double Dip by
In this text, the authors explain their business method, that of values-led business, and how anyone who owns, works for, invests in, or shops with a company might help make it a socially responsible business using this method.
The Great American Ice Cream Book by The multifaceted exhibit featured the new SIUE Sustainability App (downloadable here), The Gardens at SIUE, the scents of drying herbs, and general gardening tips.
SUSTAINABILITY
Guides to finding resources related to sustainability including: SIUE sustainability, Courses related to sustainability, sustainability databases & eResources, sustainability multimedia, sustainability research tips, Get Involved!, sustainability for faculty, sustainability and business, climate change, energy, environment, food, green buildings, living green, social justice, and water.
THE GARDENS AT SIUE
This shortGardens at SIUE youtube video produced by the SIUE marketing department, discusses the value, beauty, and experiences at the gardens.
GARDENING
Don't own property? You can still garden! SIUE hosts a community garden within the Gardens at SIUE. According to a July 9, 2014 article in the Alestle, by Caitlyn Grove, Natural Connections, a student organization on campus, began the project to encourage students to grow, cook, and harvest their own food.
Edible Herbs by
Nothing tastes better than herbs fresh from the garden. Discover how easy and rewarding it is to grow your own! Simple instructions, tempting dishes, and beautiful full-color photographs will inspire you to grow, harvest, preserve, and cook with 26 of the most popular kitchen herbs, including basil, chives, cilantro, dill, fennel, garlic, lavender, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, and tarragon. Your pantry will soon be filled with seasoned salts, Proven#65533;al vinegar, and caraway cookies.
The New American Landscape by
Gardeners are the front line of defense in our struggle to tackle the problems of global warming, loss of habitat, water shortages, and shrinking biodiversity. In The New American Landscape, author and editor Thomas Christopher brings together the best thinkers on the topic of gardening sustainably, and asks them to describe the future of the sustainable landscape. The discussion unfolds from there, and what results is a collective vision as eloquent as it is diverse. The New American Landscape offers designers a roadmap to a beautiful garden that improves, not degrades the environment. It's a provocative manifesto about the important role gardens play in creating a more sustainable future that no professional garden designer can afford to miss. John Greenlee and Neil Diboll on the new American meadow garden Rick Darke on balancing natives and exotics in the garden Doug Tallamy on landscapes that welcome wildlife Eric Toensmeier on the sustainable edible garden David Wolfe on gardening sustainable with a changing climate Elaine Ingham on managing soil health David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth on sustainable pest solutions Ed Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre on green roofs in the sustainable residential landscape Thomas Christopher on waterwise gardens Toby Hemenway on whole system garden design The Sustainable Site Initiative on the managing the home landscape as a sustainable site
Images of exhibits and background articles, books, websites, special collections, and contact information consulted in the creation of exhibits in 2017.
During the April 2017 exhibit, patrons were encouraged to "leaf" a poem (on leaf shaped sticky notes) on the "poet-tree" an enlarged photograph of a tree on the Stratton quadrangle with Lovejoy Library in the background. 
POETRY DATABASES
POETRY BOOKS CONSULTED
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 by
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing this (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in 2005, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment--the new postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and others. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 will stand together with The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2000 as essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American poetry.
Langston Hughes by
Sterling proudly announces an exciting and vibrant addition to Poetry for Young People: The first African-American themed book in the series, featuring the poems of the extraordinary Langston Hughes. Edited by the two leading experts on Hughes’s work, and illustrated by the brilliant Benny Andrews, this very special volume is one to treasure forever. A much-requested book that was years in the making…and well worth the wait. One of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance—the flowering of black culture that took place in the 1920s and 30s—Langston Hughes captured the soul of his people, and gave voice to their concerns about race and social justice. His magnificent and powerful words still resonate today: that’s why it’s so important for young people to have access to his poems. Now they do, in a splendid volume edited and illustrated by a top-caliber team who are simply the best in their fields. The introduction, biography, and annotations come from Arnold Rampersad, a Professor and Dean at Stanford University, who has written The Life of Langston Hughes, and David Roessel, co-editor with Professor Rampersad of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes and editor of the Langston Hughes collection in Knopf’s Everyman series. Benny Andrews—a painter, printmaker, and arts advocate whose work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian, among others—has created gallery-quality illustrations that pulse with energy and add rich dimension to the poems. Among the anthologized poems are Hughes’s best-known and most loved works: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Aunt Sue’s Stories”; “Danse Africaine”; “Mother to Son”; “My People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “Harlem”; and “I, Too”—his sharp, pointed response to Walt Whitman’s earlier “I Hear America Singing.” Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes is a publishing event for all to celebrate. A Selection of the Scholastic Book Club.
And Still I Rise by
Maya Angelou's unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Thus begins "Phenomenal Woman," just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou's third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh--and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. "It is true poetry she is writing," M.F.K. Fisher has observed, "not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes."
River Styx 56, The Visual Word by The Big River Association
Roots and Branches by Robert Duncan
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People by Nikki Giovanni; George Ford (Illustrator)
Exhibit created during Elizabeth Cali's Spring 2017 English 477 session.
African American & Black Diaspora Literature: ENG 477: Toni Morrison (Dr. Cali)
Beloved by
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It fuels the sadness that has settled into Baby Suggs' "desolated center where the self that was no self made its home." And to Sethe, the past makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in memories that both haunt and soothe her...in the arrival of Paul D ("There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep"), one of her fellow slaves on the farm where she had once been kept...in the vivid and painfully cathartic stories she and Paul D tell each other of their years in captivity, of their glimpses of freedom...and, most powerfully, in the apparition of Beloved, whose eyes are expressionless at their deepest point, whose doomed childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who, as daughter, sister and seductress, has now come from the "place over there" to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining full possession of her present--and to throw off the long, dark legacy of her past--is at the center of this profoundly affecting and startling novel. But its intensity and resonance of feeling, and the boldness of its narrative, lift it beyond its particulars so that it speaks to our experience as an entire nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance. In Beloved, Toni Morrison has given us a great American novel. Toni Morrison was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for Beloved.
Sula by
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned... In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.
Song of Solomon by
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as another enters premature labor. The child born of that labor, Macon (Milkman) Dead, will eventually come to discover, through his complicated progress to maturity, the meaning of the drama that marked his birth. Toni Morrison's novel is at once a romance of self-discovery, a retelling of the black experience in America that uncovers the inalienable poetry of that experience, and a family saga luminous in its depth, imaginative generosity, and universality. It is also a tribute to the ways in which, in the hands of a master, the ancient art of storytelling can be used to make the mysterious and invisible aspects of human life apparent, real, and firm to the touch. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Explore the history of East St. Louis using the special collection donated by Dr. Andrew Theising, head of SIUE's Institute for Urban Research, including historic postcards available in the special collection, his contribution to the Emmy-winning PBS documentary and award winning book, "Made in USA: East St. Louis." Learn more about the 1917 Race riot through Institute For Urban Research: 1917 Race Riot page or Request the book: Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 written by former SIU professor Dr. Elliott Rudwick.
Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 by
For violence and brutality, no race riot of the century has matched that at East St. Louis during World War I. At least 39 Negroes and 9 whites died during this time of mob rule. Property damage came to nearly have-million dollars as white mobs burned Negro homes in the city's black ghettos. Police and the National Guard watched with indifference or encouraged and aided the mobs. The implications of this violence and the critical attitudes of the time are present and analyzed in depth. The ineptitude, corruption, and abdication of responsibility by civic officials, the current economic conditions, competition for jobs between Negroes and whites, the inflammatory press, labor-management disputes, the pandering by political parties in which the Negro became a despised pawn, and the widespread disregard for authority--all were instrumental in producing the climax of violence. From more than 5,000 pages of testimony by state and federal investigating groups, from the files of Negro and white newspapers, and from the transcripts of the court trials following the riot the author has created a thoroughly researched and documented study and a deeply moving account of the tragic results of ignorance and bigotry. In the conclusion to the book other notable race riots are examined and compared with the outbreak in East St. Louis; the emerging patterns and their significance are clearly defined.
Elliott Rudwick is Associate Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he took his Ph.D. degree." --Back Cover Race Riot at East St. Louis July 2, 1917 Elliott M. Rudwick
". . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American race riots." -- American Historical Review
The Mississippi River Festival(MRF) Digital Collection
SIUE created the MRF in conjunction with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra to promote regional cooperation in the realm of performing arts. The university created an outdoor concert venue within a natural amphitheater by installing a large circus tent, a stage, an acoustic shell, and a sophisticated sound system.
Between 1969 and 1980, 353 events showcasing performers in a variety of musical genres, including classical, chamber, vocal, ragtime, blues, folk, bluegrass, barbershop, country, and rock, as well as dance and theater occurred at the Mississippi River Festival (Bahr-Evola, & Kerber, 2006).
The "BUILD IT" case includes photographs of the construction of one of the three large canvas tents used at the Mississippi River Festival over it's 12 season run.
The "AND THEY" case shares photographs of entertainers and their performance dates at MRF.
The "WILL COME" case highlights the admosphere of the MRF including large crowds, fireworks, blanket tosses, coolers, chairs, and blankets on the lawn.
The "MRF Tent" case is a scale model of the MRF tent created by Tiffany Dvorak with accompanying images of construction of the acoustic shell and site preparation for the festival.
Exhibit showing side by side images of the SIUE campus during construction compared with the campus in April 2017, from similar angles. With a focus on the architectural history of SIUE during the May 2017 commencement, images of Gyo Obata's architectural designs forming including the original concept, clearing of the grounds, testing of brick materials and colors, and groundbreaking, are compared with the same buildings over 50 years later.
Many of the historical construction images used in the display are available in the images of SIUE digital exhibit.
Quad view of Lovejoy Library April 2017 for the "Then and Now" display in May 2017.
Peck Hall as viewed across Chimega's Pond, April 2017.
