News from the Sutherland Archives

By Catherine McIntyre, Archivist

In September and early October, we interviewed four people in connection with the art exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum, called “Global Spotlight Russia: Pastoralism,” running through December 15. We edited the interviews into a nice ten-minute loop on a DVD that runs continually in the museum while the exhibit is open. By request of curator Melissa Hempel, we interviewed: Trent Olsen, an art student at BYU who also fulfilled an LDS mission to Russia; Dr. Rusty Butler, Associate Vice President of International Affairs at Utah Valley University and the Honorary Consul General for the
Russian Federation in the State of Utah; Dodge Billingsley, who trains combat troops to be psychologically ready for war and is an avid collector of Russian art; and Ellie Sontag, who runs an art gallery in Salt Lake City and specializes in Russian pastoral art. If you attend the exhibit, be sure to look for the stand-alone screen and headphones where you can see and hear the interview clips!

Catherine McIntyre attends the American

Associations for State and Local History conference

I recently attended the Conference of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in Salt Lake City to promote the Mountain West Digital Library (www.mwdl.org) and the Utah Digital
Newspapers (http://digitalnewspapers.org).  The Mountain West Digital Library is a freecentral search portal for digital collections from institutions in the Mountain West region, including our own Utah Valley University Digital Collections. The Utah Digital Newspapers provides free access to historical
newspapers from around Utah. We had a great turnout at the conference. I’d be thrilled to provide information about these great free resources, which are made possible by the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC), to any faculty member or department—just let me know!

And we’d like to congratulate newly-retired UVU professor Dr. Kathryn French, who won this year’s Gandhi Peace Award for her six years of work culminating in the Oral History of Utah Peace Activists project. We are honored to have worked with Dr. French to archive and digitize this important record of Utah peace and justice activists. The project interviews can be accessed at www.uvu.edu/library/archives/peace.html.