FlowerMart 2013 was an absolute blast! It was wonderful meeting so many new friends — we sincerely hope you continue to visit the Peabody Library! Plus, LEMON STICKS!!!! Seriously, how can something so simple be so amazingly good?
Celebrate Pleasant Living at FlowerMart!
Baltimore! It’s the land of pleasant living! And what’s more pleasant than spending a lovely Saturday perusing flowers, eating deliciously sugary lemon sticks, and ambling around a historic neighborhood? That’s right, all ye denizens of Baltimore, FlowerMart is occurring this Friday and Saturday in Mount Vernon Square, and the George Peabody Library is hosting events both fun and enlightening in honor of this esteemed Baltimore tradition.
There will certainly be moments of whimsy, daring displays of creativity, and wonderful botanical discoveries to be had by all! Even if flowers aren’t your thing, stop by the Peabody on Saturday, May 4th and view our Stephen Crane exhibit. Enough build up, right? Well, here’s our schedule:
Saturday, May 4
Hours: 11am-5pm
12pm: Collection Spotlight Chat: Learn about Sachse’s monumental Bird’s Eye View of the City of Baltimore (1869)
1pm: 20 Minute Talk: Learn about the Peabody Library and its Collections
2pm: Classical guitar concert featuring Yisak Lee (concert will take place in the Exhibition Gallery)
3pm: 20 Minute Talk: Learn about the Peabody Library and its Collections
4pm: Collection Spotlight Chat: Learn about Sachse’s monumental Bird’s Eye View of the City of Baltimore (1869)
Daffy, the unofficial Peabody mascot, is currently in France enjoying the museums. Don’t worry, though! Being quite the intrepid jetsetter, Daffy will be back in Baltimore in time for FlowerMart!
Don’t forget you can enjoy all these things and much, much more at the Peabody Library on Saturday!
Saturday, May 4
Hours: 11am-5pm
12pm: Collection Spotlight Chat: Learn about Sachse’s monumental Bird’s Eye View of the City of Baltimore (1869)
1pm: 20 Minute Talk: Learn about the Peabody Library and its Collections
2pm: Classical guitar concert featuring Yisak Lee (concert will take place in the Exhibition Gallery)
3pm: 20 Minute Talk: Learn about the Peabody Library and its Collections
4pm: Collection Spotlight Chat: Learn about Sachse’s monumental Bird’s Eye View of the City of Baltimore (1869)
FlowerMart! FlowerMart! FlowerMart!
Join us on Saturday, May 4 from 11am-5pm as we join our fellow Baltimoreans in our love of all things flowers! It’s civic pride at its most florid! Not only will you have a rare chance to view select works from our collection, but we will also have oodles of free craft activities for you to do! Make your own book! Design your own Mother’s Day card! Color a lovely bookmark! And while you are getting all crafty, why not check out one of our scheduled events listed below?
12pm: Collection Spotlight Chat: Learn about Sachse’s monumental Bird’s Eye View of the City of Baltimore (1869)
1pm: 20 Minute Talk: Learn about the Peabody Library and its Collections
2pm: Classical guitar concert featuring Yisak Lee (concert will take place in the Exhibition Gallery)
3pm: 20 Minute Talk: Learn about the Peabody Library and its Collections
4pm: Collection Spotlight Chat: Learn about Sachse’s monumental Bird’s Eye View of the City of Baltimore (1869)
Daffy times at the Peabody Library! Introducing Daffy, our library’s unofficial mascot! It’s odd! It’s blue! It’s kind of morbidly cute! It’s a perfect compliment to our wunderkammer works! Plus, it provided some much needed whimsy during our FlowerMart preparations. That’s right, FlowerMart is just around the corner and the library will be open for all to see (and maybe Daffy will make a surprise appearance)! Details to follow.
C’mon! You know you really, really, really wanna keep it real with the mad Realist stylings of the one and only Stephen Crane, so follow the beat to the Peabody exhibition gallery and explore early editions and much, much more! Seriously, there’s more to Crane than The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie … like photos of him with skeletons!
Now through June 14, 2013.
George Peabody Library, 17 E. Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21202. The George Peabody Gallery is open Monday through Friday 9 – 5, Saturdays 9 – 3, and Sundays 12 – 5. Admission is free.
A drawing of the Peabody Library from last semester. I was trying to replace by desktop screen with something. I usually keep it a flat color so I don’t get distracted by anything while I’m working, but I thought I might change my mind and put something on the screen. I’ll probably switch back to a plain neutral color though it keeps me from wasting time looking at the image I have in the background. Anyway, I found this.
One of the best things about working at the Peabody Library is meeting artists and then stumbling upon their work of the library on tumblr. Tagging is a blessing, folks. Long live metadata and lovely works of art!
Ladies, mind your corsets … . and your AMATIVE DESIRES!
These delightful illustrations (note especially the fig-leaf decorated intestines) are from an anti-corset book by the esteemed phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler! And boy was he concerned! 19th century ladies were getting all bold what with their wrist-flashing, corset-wearing, and most likely novel-reading ways. What hussies!
Fortunately, Fowler was around to shame all the “Miss Fastidious Small Waists” he could find, leading many, we are sure, to the fainting couch. Plus, Fowler’s bold use of concern-trolling text and exquisite handling of all-caps type for crucial points suggest he would be right at home engaging in online political discourse today! (Impure desires! AHHHHH!!!!)
From “Tight-lacing, or, The evils of compressing the organs of animal life” (1844)
Relive the glory of our Intersession class in one handy-dandy online portfolio! Seriously, check out all the amazing work our talented Hopkins students generated on the history and collections of the Peabody Library.
Want to meet “The Great Lover Casanova of Today?” Heck, yeah! Not only does he get amorous with the ghost of the Empress Josephine, but he also sports some rather, um, whimsical ink. Well, meet him and many more enticing materials in Special Collections at Dirty Books & Longing Looks!
(2/14 from 6:30-8:30, Special Collections, Brody Learning Commons)
