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5 Art 21 ; Season 5 Art21 1 Art21 2 Art21 6 Arty facts Bone #5 Bone ; #5 Hollows 5 Sandman ; #5Summary: Presents 37 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes and beyond the museum or gallery experience. Go into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Art21, Inc. 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Why do we find comfort in some systems while rebelling against others? How can the artist use systems as a mean of expression? Systems explores these questions in the work of contemporary artists Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum—all motivated to explain and explore the infinite systems of life as they experiment with abstract composition, performance art, stenciling,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Can art antagonize? Seduce? Inspire transformation? And if so, how might desires and taboos shape our ability to imagine? Fantasy, featuring contemporary artists Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Achen, and Cao Fei, explores a defiant and unconventional world of sculpture, painting, video and photography-a techno-inspired collection that is at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What happens when the artists becomes the art? In Transformation, three artists satirize society and reinvent icons of literature, art history, and pop culture by inhabiting the characters they create and capturing the sensibilities of our age. It is a personal portrait of Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul McCarthy-three contemporary artists refashioning their identity by way of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Might a work of art move us to temper our more destructive impulses? In what ways do artists’ feelings of empathy contribute to works that tackle problematic subjects and address the human condition? Compassion, features three contemporary artists-William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems-whose unique works and experimental methods explore the conscience and the possibility of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Franklin, Ariana
Summary: Allie, the daughter of Adelia Aguilar and a skilled healer with her mother's knowledge of anatomy and sleuthing, is dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASummary: For thousands of years, the only threat to polar bears came from humans. Nothing has changed-except now it is fossil fuel consumption, not spears and guns, that pushes Ursus maritimus toward extinction. Depicting the hapless species as the proverbial canary in a coal mine, this program studies the intensifying impact of climate change on the Arctic region. Viewers learn how the entire Arctic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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McNamara, Margaret
Summary: Fairies Sylva Bell and Poppy Flower are overjoyed when they find Queen Mab's old dollhouse, but as the two friends play with it, they start to unlock its secrets and discover its special magic--a magic that has a history of putting friendships to the test.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MCNGoodman, Polly.
Summary: Information about various topics related to astronomy forms the foundation for projects about the sun and moon, planet rotation, space travel, black holes, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: 520 GoodmSacks, Janet.
Summary: Information about various topics related to weather and weather forecasting forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: 551.5 SACKSKava, Alex
Summary: "In Alabama: A deadly outbreak of tornadoes sends K9 handlers, Ryder Creed and Jason Seaver with their scent dogs, Grace and Scout to search for survivors. As storms intensify and Ryder and Jason race against time to save victims, they end up racing to save themselves. In Chicago: Francine "Frankie" Russo is irritated when her young co-worker calls at 5:00 am for a video-chat and catches her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Wind Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KavMcCormick, Rosie.
Summary: Information about various topics related to petals, tree bark, seeds, and other special characteristics of different plants forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 580 McCorMcCormick, Rosie.
Summary: Information about various topics related to the composition and functioning of the human body forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 612 MCMStringer, John
Summary: Information about various topics related to machines, especially those used for transportation, forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 629.04 StrinTaylor, Barbara
Summary: Information about different kinds of structures built by humans and ideas about what it is like to be involved in a construction project form the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Cooper, John.
Summary: Information about various topics related to the earth forms the foundation for projects about earthquakes, volcanoes, fossils, gemstones, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 745.5 CoopeSacks, Janet.
Summary: Information about various topics related to dinosaurs, birds, marine life, and other animals forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 745.5 SACKSTaylor, Barbara
Summary: Information about various topics related to the science of light and color forms the foundation for a variety of craft projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2002
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 701.85 TAYGaiman, Neil.
Contents: Slaughter on Fifth Avenue -- Lullabies of Broadway -- Bad moon rising -- Beginning to see the light -- Over the sea to sky -- "I woke up and one of us was crying".
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RICHarrison, Kim.
Summary: Witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan comes to the aid of Nick, a former lover haunted by his secret past and in possession of savage beasts that are willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it, and discovers that more than her own soul is at stake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTorch 2006