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Animals in Art
This mini-exhibit highlights just a few of the Art Collection's many books about the ways artists have depicted animals throughout history, from Garry Winogrand's humorous zoo photographs to Cartier's jeweled bird brooches and Franz Marc's yellow cows.
2 East Digital Projects Gallery
African Maps
Ongoing
In the 2East Digital Projects Gallery, on display are framed map prints created from the digital files, showing not only how perfectly the digitized maps recreate the historical originals, but also how these digital files can be returned to a paper format with virtually no loss or degradation in detail, texture, and color. This is a complimentary exhibit to Chicago and the Northwestern University Library's Festival of Maps.
Changing Faces, Changing Places: 150 Years at Northwestern
Ongoing
Photographs and artifacts depict some of the subtle and dramatic changes that have occurred on the University's Evanston and Chicago campuses in the past 150 years.
Consider the Potato
April 21 - June 20, 2008
Solanum tuberosum. Last year some 320 million tons of them were produced, making them a key food source for over 800 million people in the world. UNESCO’s International Year of the Potato is raising awareness of the increasingly important role the humble potato is playing in agriculture, economy and food security. Employing materials from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, various international organizations, and even the Music Library, this exhibit celebrates the versatility of this amazing vegetable. A video from UNESCO on the potato and poverty is available for viewing.
Africana
African Women Writers
Ongoing
African Women Writers features the works of Bessora, Osonye Tess Onwueme, Mariama Ba, Calixthe Beyala, Ama Ata Aidoo & more. Curated by Patricia Ogedengbe.
Recent African Film
Celebrating recent African film, this exhibition is mounted as a collaborative effort between Esmeralda Kale, Bibliographer of Africana, and Christopher Hayden, of the Undergraduate Research Program in the Provost's Office. Among the films featured in this exhibit are some that will be shown during winter quarter, 2008, in the Program of African Studies film series: <http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/events.html>. Films featured in the exhibit can also be checked out from the Mitchell Multimedia Center in the University Library.
Second Wave On The Wall: Posters From The Women’s Liberation Movement
January 24 - June 6, 2008
A selection from the many hundreds of posters within the Femina Collection of the McCormick Library of Special Collections, this eclectic epitome of our women’s poster collection was chosen to give some indication of the wide range of our holdings in geographic scope, graphic range, and subject matter: from Pakistan to Evanston, from silkscreen to magic marker scrawl, from Lesbian communes to careering in France. Documenting the activities of “Second Wave” Feminism of the 1960’s-1980’s, the Femina Collection contains not only posters, but thousands of books, serials, pamphlets, ephemera files, recordings and realia produced by and/or documenting struggles for women’s rights and allied social changes worldwide.
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