March 21st is Donají's birthday!
I had wanted to do a family portrait for a long time.
From left to right:
Béelia (Donají's mother).
Donají herself.
Yela (Cousin).
Gueela (Aunt)
Bio' (Eldest cousin).
Also a February reward release!
Some people may be seeing Gueela for the first time. She's Béelia's older sister, and has a very frail health so she doesn't go out often. She's the mother of Bio' and Yela.
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Yela Starter Call
A doctor on her home planet despite being a teenager, she came on a project to assist her older sisters and partners right after her coming of age mission. No one told her, but she is aware this is not just to see if Earth is a worthy of invasion; but is also meant to restore honor to her household’s null child. Have a soft spoken and reliable personality, is reserved but curious as well.
Like this for a starter with Yela!
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In the Land of Tiny Books
Our Head of Special Collections Max Yela has collaborated for decades with Milwaukee artist and art professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) Leslie Fedorchuk (on the left in the first image; Max is on the right). This semester, Leslie is teaching a MIAD course called "Magical Miniatures" and she brought her class over for a discussion and review of artists books that use small scale as expression.
While Max is not very fond of miniatures or the miniaturization of books, he does like books that are small for compositional reasons. In fact, one of his favorite artists books, In Here Out There (third image) by the late Minnesota artist Jody Williams, is quite small (5 x 7 cm). Since we hold about 95% of Jody Williams's work and about 90% of the small editioned work of Peter & Donna Thomas, after a discussion, the class spent time reviewing selected works by these artists, plus about a dozen others by local book artists.
This was the first time these art students, many of them Juniors and Seniors, had ever encountered artists books before, and all expressed that it was a transformative experience. We look forward to seeing some of the book work that comes out of the assignments for this class!
The photographs shown here were taken by MIAD Web Content Specialist Olivia Langby.
View more posts with artists books.
View more posts with work by Jody Williams.
View more posts with works by Peter and Donna Thomas.
View more posts on visiting classes.
View our online bibliography of the works of Peter and Donna Thomas.
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i have 30 something wishes. big news for me
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Today is Yela's birthday (Donaji's cousin).
I have a chart on my room's wall to keep track of character ages as time passes within the story (spoilery characters are censored).
I messed up some of the Nahuatl calendar names, pay no mind to those.
If anyone has a source with the sacred calendar's names of the days in Hñähñu (Otomi), I would really appreciate the tip!
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@ancientforged
"Can I help you with something?" The adventurer stopped, turning to look around the corner with a hand on her hip. "You've uh, been following me for a few minutes now."
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@plightfated liked [ x ] for a Yela Starter!
"I hope my wait wasn't too long, now let's see about this."
Holding everything she believes is needed to take care of the other. They looked terrible when first seen, just from instinct she had to aid them. What kind of doctor would she be if she overlooked this? Curious about the circumstances of how this even happened.
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