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Honoring Mary Settle Cooney’s extraordinary contributions to the Tennessee Valley Art Association and beyond.

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Gulf Coast Contemporary: Selected Works by Artists from Lower Alabama

Exhibition Opening Sunday, May 20th, 2018 

1:00 - 3:00 p.m. 

Exhibition opening is free and open to the public. 

For more information or to schedule a tour please call 256-383-0533 or visit the Tennessee Valley Art Association website. 

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H. R. Lovell: Southern Visions

An exhibition at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art *** The Tennessee Valley Museum of Art invites you to the opening of an exhibition of work by artist H.R. Lovell on Sunday, March 25th, from 1-3 p.m. The exhibition opening is free of charge. Titled Southern Visions, the exhibition features works on loan from the private collections of Quinton Horner and the Horner family, as well as works loaned courtesy of the artist. Lovell was named Tennessee's Artist-in-Residence for 2001-2003 by the Tennessee State Senate. A self-taught painter, Lovell uses a photorealistic style marked by the golden light and deep shadows of late afternoon to capture the character of the South and its people. Viewers often find that Lovell's works evoke a sense of wistfulness and nostalgia in their loving, richly textured depictions of rural Southern life. "Southern Visions" will remain open through Friday, May 4th. Regular museum hours are 9-5, Monday-Friday and 1-3 on Sundays. Admission is $5 during the week (free to TVAA members). There is no charge for Sunday admission.

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Does this cold March weather have you feeling down? Here’s a small sample of beautiful Japanese kimono to add a healthy dose of color to your life while you wait for spring.

“Woman’s Kimono,” early 20th century, Japan 

“Woman’s Kimono (Kosode),” late 19th century, Japan 

“Woman’s Hitoe Kimono (Kosode),” early 19th century, Japan 

“Woman’s Kimono,” 1920–30s, Japan 

“Woman’s Wedding Kimono (Uchikake),” 1960s, Japan 

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Veiled: A Space Between | Artist: Aaron Tennessee Benson 

2018, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art

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“That’s right woodchuck-chuckers, it’s Groundhog Day!” “This is one time where television truly fails to capture the excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.” –“Groundhog Day” (1993)

“Groundhog,” 1800–50, American 

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Above: Closeup of Reflection, 2018

Below, left to right: Gesture, 2018; Sheath (foreground) and Illusion (background), both 2018

Exhibition: Veiled: A Space Between | Artist: Aaron Tennessee Benson

Jan. 21st - Mar. 9th, 2018 

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Artist Aaron Tennessee Benson visited the TVMA this weekend to deliver his artwork and discuss the installation of his upcoming exhibition “Veiled: A Space Between.” We took the chance to ask him a few questions - here, he explains some of the impetus behind the title of his show. 

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Artist Aaron Tennessee Benson brings a piece from Veiled: A Space Between into the museum as he arrives to plan the layout of the installation with TVMA staff. 

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The first exhibition of 2018 at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art features a collection of sculptural work by Aaron Tennessee Benson. Benson is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of North Alabama, where he teaches courses in ceramics, sculpture, and 3D design. Veiled: A Space Between focuses on questions of time and eternity.

The Tennessee Valley Museum of Art will celebrate the exhibition opening on Sunday, January 21st, 1-3. Benson will present a slide lecture and will also be available to answer questions about his work. 

The opening reception is free and open to the public. Museum hours are 9-5 Mon-Fri and Sun 1-3. Admission during the week is $5/adult and $3/student. Sunday admission is free to the public. This program has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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View the artist’s website here. 

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The first exhibition of 2018 at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art features a collection of sculptural work by Aaron Tennessee Benson. Benson is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of North Alabama, where he teaches courses in ceramics, sculpture, and 3D design. Veiled: A Space Between focuses on questions of time and eternity.

The Tennessee Valley Museum of Art will celebrate the exhibition opening on Sunday, January 21st, 1-3. Benson will present a slide lecture and will also be available to answer questions about his work. 

The opening reception is free and open to the public. Museum hours are 9-5 Mon-Fri and Sun 1-3. Admission during the week is $5/adult and $3/student. Sunday admission is free to the public. This program has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Need some help getting into a spooky mood? We have a skele-TON of them.

More Art Monday is brought to you by Art 24/7. 

“Three Dancing Skeletons,” early to mid-19th century, by James Akin 

“Jayne Headstone Carving, Marblehead, Massachusetts,” 1948 (negative); 1976–79 (print), by Ansel Adams © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust 

“Skeleton Mask,” 19th century, made in Bhutan or India 

“The Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell,” 1880s, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 

“Strangling Calaveras,” 1942, by Leopoldo Méndez © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City 

“Death Cart (Carreta de la Muerte),” c. 1880–1900, made in New Mexico 

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Solar System: 10 Things to Know This Week

Need some space? 

Here are 10 perspective-building images for your computer desktop and mobile device wallpaper. 

These are all real images, sent very recently by our planetary missions throughout the solar system. 

1. Our Sun

Warm up with this view from our Solar Dynamics Observatory showing active regions on the Sun in October 2017. They were observed in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light that reveals plasma heated to over a million degrees. 

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2. Jupiter Up-Close

This series of enhanced-color images shows Jupiter up close and personal, as our Juno spacecraft performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet on Sept. 1, 2017. 

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3. Saturn’s and Its Rings

With this mosaic from Oct. 28, 2016, our Cassini spacecraft captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. 

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4. Gale Crater on Mars

This look from our Curiosity Mars rover includes several geological layers in Gale crater to be examined by the mission, as well as the higher reaches of Mount Sharp beyond. The redder rocks of the foreground are part of the Murray formation. Pale gray rocks in the middle distance of the right half of the image are in the Clay Unit. A band between those terrains is “Vera Rubin Ridge,” where the rover is working currently. The view combines six images taken with the rover’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Jan. 24, 2017. 

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5. Sliver of Saturn

Cassini peers toward a sliver of Saturn’s sunlit atmosphere while the icy rings stretch across the foreground as a dark band on March 31, 2017. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 7 degrees below the ring plane. 

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6. Dwarf Planet Ceres 

This image of the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the northern hemisphere, as seen by our Dawn mission. Prominently featured is Occator Crater, home of Ceres’ intriguing “bright spots.” The latest research suggests that the bright material in this crater is comprised of salts left behind after a briny liquid emerged from below. 

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7. Martian Crater

This image from our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a crater in the region with the most impressive known gully activity in Mars’ northern hemisphere. Gullies are active in the winter due to carbon dioxide frost, but northern winters are shorter and warmer than southern winters, so there is less frost and less gully activity. 

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8. Dynamic Storm on Jupiter

A dynamic storm at the southern edge of Jupiter’s northern polar region dominates this Jovian cloudscape, courtesy of Juno. This storm is a long-lived anticyclonic oval named North North Temperate Little Red Spot 1. Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. 

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9. Rings Beyond Saturn’s Sunlit Horizon 

This false-color view from the Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn’s sunlit horizon. Along the limb (the planet’s edge) at left can be seen a thin, detached haze. 

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10. Saturn’s Ocean-Bearing Moon Enceladus

Saturn’s active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from Cassini. This view of Enceladus was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back before its mission came to an end on Sept. 15, after nearly 20 years in space. 

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Applying Wallpaper: 1. Click on the screen resolution you would like to use. 2. Right-click on the image (control-click on a Mac) and select the option ‘Set the Background’ or 'Set as Wallpaper’ (or similar).

Places to look for more of our pictures include solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries, images.nasa.gov and www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

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The oldest known road map of Britain

Drawn over two large pieces of sheepskin parchment, the truly remarkable Gough Map measures more than one metre wide and half a metre tall. Its size is impressive in person; even our slightly scaled-down facsimiles are a sight to behold.

Drawn over two large pieces of sheepskin parchment, the truly remarkable Gough Map measures more than one metre wide and half a metre tall. Its size is impressive in person; even our slightly scaled-down Hang-Your-Own-Gough-Map facsimiles are a sight to behold.

Unlike most modern maps this one is oriented to the East - that is to say, North is situated to the left of this map if you put the have the text upright and readable.

We’ve had the map in our collection at the Bodleian Libraries since 1809 when it arrived at Richard Gough’s bequest.

Oxford’s somewhere in this section… but can you work out where?

Gough had acquired it for half-a-crown on 20 May 1774, during the sale of the collection of Thomas Martin of Palgrave. It was described at that auction as ‘a curious and most ancient map of Great Britain.’ As it was then, so it is now.

It’s believed that the map dates to around 1360, and is the first we know of to show a recognisable coastline of Britain.

Between 2006 and 2009 the Bodleian undertook a program of conservation work on the map, which we described in detail on our website.

The Gough Map is truly one of our Treasures and deserves its place on the front page of digital.bodleian.

A detail from the map.

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A selection of tools and materialsused in creating traditional hooked rugs, courtesy of artist Anne Norvell. Part of Fiber & Folk: American Hooked Rug Traditions. Oct. 1 - Nov. 17, 2017. 

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Fiber & Folk: American Hooked Rug Traditions

Oct. 1 - Nov. 17, 2017 

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As the chilly fall air sets in we’re grateful for warm, heat regulated art museums… and napping.

More Art Monday is brought to you by Art 24/7.  

“Yucatán, Sleeping on the Deck of a Small Boat,” 1945, by Alfredo Zalce 

“Woman Sleeping in an Armchair,” 1923, by Jules Pascin 

“Sleeping Ariadne,” 1808, by  Albert Christoph Reindel 

“The Poet Li Po in a Drunken Sleep,” 1880s, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 

“Sleeping Child,” 1765, by Francesco Bartolozzi 

“N (Is for Nap),” 1933, by Wanda Gág 

“The Meridian (Le Méridienne),” c. 1865–67, by Jean-François Millet