UNI Art History Symposium | Erin Keiser 2015

Art History Symposium poster © Erin Keiser (2015)

Above Poster by Erin Keiser, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), announcing the schedule for the upcoming 5th Annual Art History Symposium at the same school, beginning at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 10, 2015. This was chosen as the winning events poster by the UNI Art History faculty. The top student art history papers (to be formally presented that afternoon at 5:00 pm) were submitted by Kelly Cunningham, Dana Potter and Linda Patrick. Awards will be announced at 6:00 pm, followed by a keynote address by Ohio University art historian Dr. Jennie Klein on "Spiritual Athletes: Performing Endurance." Free and open to the public at the Kamerick Art Building auditorium on the UNI campus.

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Robert MacNeil, Wordstruck: A Memoir. New York: Viking, 1989, p. 52—

If scientists could examine my brain, as they do the contents of murder victims' stomachs, they would find that I had gorged myself when young on plum puddings and fruitcakes of this seventeenth-century prose [of Anglican Church liturgy]; each word simple in itself, the combination rich and fruity, loved for the taste on the tongue, though years in the digesting; words for their own sake.

Typographic Poster | Erin Keiser

Typographic Poster © Erin Keiser 2015

Above Poster by Erin Keiser, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of the typeface Myriad, designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly.

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Samuel Clemens, The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Charles Neider, arr. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959, p. 3—

For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whiskey toddy when I was six weeks old but I don't tell about that any more now; I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not, but my faculties are decaying now and soon I should be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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Franklin P. Jones—

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Typographic Poster | Erin Keiser

Typographic Poster © Erin Keiser (2015)

Above Poster by Erin Keiser, graphic design student, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa (2015), in celebration of printer Claude Garamond and the typeface that now bears his name, Garamond.

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Robert MacNeil, Wordstruck: A Memoir. New York: Viking, 1989, p. 109—

A painter's eye memorizes, as does a musician's ear. The memory-banks they create are fundamental to their training. Memorizing poems gives all of us, amateurs of language, our own memory-banks. Sentimental, lyric, narrative, adventurous, dramatic, bombastic, gothic, facetious, satiric—we heap the phrases up and our amazing brains keep them ready to leap out, bidden or unbidden—all accessible—in milliseconds.