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Comics go to college--RIT opens Kubert Comics Lounge and Gallery

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星期四, 九月 21, 2023
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Comics fans have a super friend in Rochester Institute of Technology and a new place to pay homage to legendary DC Comics artist and educator Joe Kubert. The Kubert Lounge and Gallery opens to the public this fall at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection in RIT's university library. Marvel Comics artist and RIT alumnus Adam Kubert '81 (medical illustration) donated his father's archive to inspire young artists.The grand opening of the Kubert Comics Lounge and Gallery—6-8 p.m. Sept. 21 on the RIT campus—celebrates the donation and ongoing collaboration with Adam Kubert.A moderated conversation between Kubert and British writer Nikesh Shukla, two of the creators of Spider-Man India, will be held at 6 p.m. in RIT's Ingle Auditorium. A signing and tour of the Kubert Lounge and Gallery will follow at Wallace Library. The event is free and open to the public; however, attendance is limited and registration is required.The gallery in the Kubert Lounge will exhibit, "Spider-Man India: The Cover Art of Adam Kubert," and feature his illustrations for the comic book series. The show will run from Sept. 21 to Dec. 15.

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  • Comics fans have a super friend in Rochester Institute of Technology and a new place to pay homage to legendary DC Comics artist and educator Joe Kubert: The Kubert Lounge and Gallery opens to the public this fall in RIT's university library.
  • The Kubert Lounge and Gallery opens to the public this fall at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection in RIT's university library.
  • The grand opening of the Kubert Comics Lounge and Gallery—6-8 p.m. Sept. 21 on the RIT campus—celebrates the donation and ongoing collaboration with Adam Kubert.
  • A signing and tour of the Kubert Lounge and Gallery will follow at Wallace Library.

Museums and libraries nationwide leveraging low-cost spectral imaging systems built by RIT

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星期二, 六月 28, 2022
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Libraries and museums across the country have begun recapturing lost and obscured text on historically significant documents thanks to low-cost spectral imaging systems developed by faculty and students at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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  • Libraries and museums across the country have begun recapturing lost and obscured text on historically significant documents thanks to low-cost spectral imaging systems developed by faculty and students at Rochester Institute of Technology.
  • ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Libraries and museums across the country have begun recapturing lost and obscured text on historically significant documents thanks to low-cost spectral imaging systems developed by faculty and students at Rochester Institute of Technology.
  • The systems collect images in many wavelengths of light to reveal faded text that is undetectable to the human eye.
  • "We developed a low-cost imaging system that is very easy to use so that you don't need trained scientists or technicians to run the imaging system.

RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection preserves Hebrew wood type

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星期四, 十月 1, 2020
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RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection will print, digitize, and publish its collection of 30 different wood types of the Hebrew alphabet with a grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation's Historic Preservation, Restoration, and Literature Fund.

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  • RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection will print, digitize, and publish its collection of 30 different wood types of the Hebrew alphabet with a grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation's Historic Preservation, Restoration, and Literature Fund.
  • "This collection is one of the most extensive private non-Latin wood type collections in the United States (outside of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum), and its significance crosses the boundaries of graphic arts teaching, as the type represents the development of the immigrant press in the United States," said Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, associate curator at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection housed in RIT Libraries.
  • Over the past six years, Cary Graphic Arts Collection staff and members of the RIT student-run program "Adopt-a-Font" cleaned and restored thousands of characters in the Hebrew wood type collection, using archival preservation practices.
  • The Cary Graphic Arts Collection is one of the nation's premier libraries of graphic communication history and practices.