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Rubbings of Ancient Maya Sculpture by Joan W. Patten (softcover color edition) By Carl D. Callaway

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Rubbings of Ancient Maya Sculpture by Joan W. Patten (softcover color edition) American Sculptor Joan W. Patten (1924-2005) lived and traveled extensively throughout Guatemala from 1965-1982. The... More > Guatemalan government granted Joan official, carte blanche permission to make molds, casts and replicas of ancient Preclassic (1500 BC-250 AD) and Classic (250-900 AD) Maya relief sculpture. Her replicas of Maya stelae currently stand in Guatemala’s Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, the National Zoo and at the Museo Popol Vuh gardens at Francisco Marroquín University. In addition to the replicas, she executed hundreds of rubbings in oils on colored fabric. With a sculptor’s touch and infinite patience, she rendered images onto cloth that are remarkably sharp in detail and line. The rubbings include images that preserve an abundance of information about Maya sculptural traditions, iconography, hieroglyphic writing, mythology and history.< Less

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Voodoo Wedding By Gil Jawetz

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Voodoo Wedding is a travelogue of sorts and is inspired by the artist’s 2008 marriage to writer Tracey Middlekauff in a voodoo temple in New Orleans, Louisiana. The work draws on the... More > iconography of the temple, the uniqueness of the priestess’s personality, and the many other colorful, vibrant elements of New Orleans culture – from the music to the architecture – that combined to make the experience so exciting. Voodoo Wedding is Jawetz’s third show at the Yellow Dog Tavern. The first two, BIG DOGS (2007) and Human(e) Beings (2008), were compiled in his book Human(e) Beings. He was most recently featured in Maryland Art Place’s 23rd Annual Critics Residency Program, curated by Vincent Katz. Featuring 29 original paintings, plus short essays by the artist and his wife, Tracey Middlekauff. For more information on Gil Jawetz's work, please visit http://www.buskerdog.com< Less

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Cyrus Mejia, The 575 Project, Art For The Animals By Cyrus Mejia

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In the U.S. there are five million homeless pets put to death in shelters every year, simply because they are unwanted! Five million a year is 575 each hour! The 575 Project is a memorial to these... More > unwanted pets. Created by Cyrus Mejia, these artworks utilize objects collected from shelters – dog collars, rabies tags, pet food cans, and cage ID cards. Mejia collected 575 of each item and created an art piece from each collection. This book is a catalog of The 575 Project with photographs and descriptions of the artwork as well as an interview with the artist. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Best Friends Animal Society.< Less

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Tamaqua Then and Now Second Edition By R. Thomas Berner

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This book is a collection of photographs/postcards—then and now—of the town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, where I grew up. I graduated from Tamaqua Area Joint Senior High School in 1961,... More > worked for two years at the Evening Courier, a newspaper that no longer exists, then joined the U.S. Navy. Thanks to the G.I. Bill, I was able to go to Penn State and I never really returned to Tamaqua except for visits to family. So this book is a long overdue return visit. I collected old photographs and postcards of Tamaqua from many sources and then walked around town on two days in July 2009 taking new photographs of old sites. I did not use anything other than my eyes to attempt to match the new with the old. For the most part, I shot with a 10:20 lens because I believed that only a wide-angle lens would recapture the past. The camera actually captured much more than the originals, so I then cropped to more or less match.< Less