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Raven Brings Light to this House of Stories: “Reading the Lines”
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| Title | Raven Brings Light to this House of Stories: "Reading the Lines"
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| Full Title | Brings Light to this House of Stories: "Reading the Lines" by Poems by J.T. Stewart
prints by Mare Blocker
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| Artist | Poems by J.T. Stewart
prints by Mare Blocker
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| Type of Art | installation |
| Medium | paper and ink |
| Date Created | 1994 |
| Description | Installation works found in Allen N. Lobby and scattered throughout Allen S. Cedar table also includes copy of Presentations from the International Symposium of Light, a book compiled by the artists, printed and bound by Mare Blocker. |
| Date Acquired | 1994 |
| Donor/Purchased From | Washington State Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program |
| On Loan | No |
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| Collection Owner | Campus Art |
| Location | In Allen N. Lobby and 2nd Floor bridge between Allen N. and S. wings
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| Accessible Hours | Library Public Hours |
| Condition | Excellent |
| Caption | A Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast story tells how once it was so dark here that the People sent Raven and Mink to bring back light. Artworks by Mare Blocker, Carl Chew, Ron Hilbert Coy and J.T. Stewart located throughout the Kenneth S. Allen Library are parts of a contemporary retelling of this story. In this retelling, light symbolizes the Library's collected knowledge. Raven Brings Light to this House of Stories is a project of the Washington State Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program in partnership with the University of Washington. The title of the work can be found written along the southeast wall of the Ground Floor Lobby. It is in Lushootseed and English. Lushootseed-speaking people are the Native Americans ancestral to where Seattle is today. Ravens and crows throughout the library were created by an artistic team. A book by the artists, printed and bound by Mare Blocker, sits on a cedar Table of Knowledge by Coy, celebrating the passage of knowledge from one generation to the next. Two study desks, called Cawpets, are located in the exhibits balcony 1st floor, Allen North and third floor, Allen South. Broadsides, including poems by Stewart and printed by Blocker, are in both the lobby and the second floor bridge between the library wings. The project was funded by the Washington State Arts commission Art in Public Space program, in partnership with UW. |
| Artist Information | Mare Blocker is an artist book maker and publisher from Jerome, Arizona. Rug designer and manufacturer Carl Chew, artists, carver, and storyteller Ron Hilbert Coy, and literary artist and instructor J.T. Stewart reside in Seattle. |
| Digital Collection | University of Washington Libraries Art Collection |
| Type | StillImage |
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