CARLI News

The election and appointment process for new members of the CARLI Board of Directors has been completed. New Board members elected to 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2013 are Brian Beecher (Elgin Community College), Mary Case (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Scott Walter (DePaul University). Board members elected to one-year terms are Njambi Kamoche (William Rainey Harper College), and Patrick Dawson (Northern Illinois University). 

Victor Hammer created this keepsake specimen for “the Chicago people” (i.e., the Society of Typographic Arts) in 1946 as thanks to the society’s members for funding the completion and casting of his American Uncial typeface.

From Ames Library Art Collection (Illinois Wesleyan University) in CARLI Digital Collections

When it comes to art I enjoy a lot of stuff going on at once. So I like this oil and wax painting.

The black-and-white figure of a woman -- meditating? in anguish? -- dominates the center of the canvas, floating in front of a layered background of colorful and stylistically varied angels. There’s a little tableaux at the right where two figures interact, one of them oblivious to the fact that she’s dripping blood or red paint. The drips stream like tears down one of the faces anchoring the artwork at the bottom, receding into the background, eyes closed -- in sleep? sorrow?