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Attention, local artists: The Art Purchase Prize is here!

Posted by Candice on Thursday, Mar 23, 2023

Local artists, it's that time of year...the Library's Art Purchase Prize contest is right around the corner!
Help us do a spring refresh of our Art To Go collection by entering your art.

Artists over 18 who live, work, or exhibit in the Iowa City area can enter two works, and submissions will be accepted from April 1 to April 28. Artworks should be original, and suitable for covering in Plexi and framing. Finished works (unframed, but including any matting) should be at least 12 x 12 and smaller than 34 x 34. Pricing should not exceed $300. The Library takes responsibility for covering and framing the art. Entries (in the form of digital images) can be emailed to candice-smith@icpl.org

There will be two rounds of judging, and the winning pieces will be added to our Art To Go collection, where they can be checked out and enjoyed by all ICPL cardholders.

Click here for more information, including specific criteria and timeline.

If you have any questions, please contact Candice Smith at candice-smith@icpl.org or 319-887-6031.

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I work at the Info Desk on the second floor, and I select books for the adult nonfiction collection. I have a degree in anthropology, which really helps in selecting...well...almost anything. I also manage the Art To Go collection of framed prints and original art, and the nonfiction DVDs.
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    by Menachem Kaiser

    940.5318 /Kaiser
    Nonfiction, Literary Nonfiction, History, Religion, Political

    When Kaiser takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland, he finds himself on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as "The Killer." A surprise discovery-- that his grandfather's cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex-- leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Here Kaiser questions: What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? -- adapted from jacket

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    First, this book is beautifully written. Menachem Kaiser's grasp of language to tell a story, illustrate situations, and convey thoughts and emotions is so fluid and engaging. Second, this book is important in many ways, but also very interesting--a real nonfiction win-win. It's a slightly winding story, starting out with particular goals and desired outcomes, but as so often happens when researching and interacting history, the modern world and reality intervene, and make things a lot harder to get hold of and follow. Menachem goes where the story leads him, and the results are so strange, interesting, and profound that you couldn't have imagined some of it. This story is also full of love and learning and respect--for self, for others, for history, and for the stories that survive. -Candice
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