Monthly Archives: June 2023

Call for Artists: As Big as We Make It! Contemporary Artists in Conversation with the Harlem Renaissance

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia is excited to announce a call for artists to submit proposals for large-scale artwork to be created in conversation with poems highlighted in a forthcoming exhibition, Their … Continue reading →

Dakota Goes Digital: Dakota Linguistics Live on from Oral Tradition to App

This post is by Ellen Welch, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Manuscript and Archives processor, about a recent acquisition of a Roman Catholic Catechism (MSS 16778), translated in the Dakota language around 1920. It is not known who translated this … Continue reading →