Current Exhibits
Choices: Alternative Cars, Alternative Fuels, May 15-August 17, 2012
From Henry Ford’s Model T to George Jetson’s flying bubble, cars have a special place in the hearts of American culture. The independence offered by the automobile is part of the American tradition. But can we sustain our love of the road?
As technology improves and the world gets smaller, we have come to realize the global impact of automobiles on the planet we call home. For the sake of saving the environment in which we live, we must find less impactful alternative to oil and the machines that run on it. With continued research, the future holds the promise of viable choices in the automotive marketplace.
Choices: Alternative Cars, Alternative Fuels opens May 15 and runs through August 17, 2012. The exhibit is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8:30 am - 10:00 pm, Saturdays 8:30 am - 12:00 pm.
Special Events:
The Electric Car: Race it and They will Come
A Lecture by Cam Suarez-Bitar
Tuesday, May 22, 3:30 pm
Forum Room, Second Floor, Northwestern University Library
Film Screening of "Who Killed the Electric Car"
Documentary narrated by Martin Sheen
Wednesday, May 16, 4pm
Block Cinema
Toward FreedomApril 23-August 31, 2012
In the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, 5th floor of the Northwestern University Library.
An exhibit of materials drawn from the papers of William Bross Lloyd, Jr. and the newsletter he established in 1952, Toward Freedom, is on display in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies through August 31, 2012. Featured in the exhibit is correspondence between Lloyd and a number of prominent individuals such as Claude Barnett, Hubert Humphrey, Tom Mboya, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Norman Thomas. The exhibit also includes examples of pamphlets produced world-wide and flyers announcing public events in Chicago, all of which are related to various aspects of independence movements and liberation struggles.
Papering Over Tough Times: Soviet Propaganda Posters of the 1930sNovember 2, 2011 to June 15, 2012
Drawing from its collection of hundreds of Soviet posters published in the Stalinist 1930s, this exhibit evidences Soviet government attempts to inspire, placate, inform, and frighten its citizens during an era of massive social engineering. While the visual and verbal rhetoric of the posters is often boldly optimistic in its support of Stalin's Five Year Plans and agricultural collectivization, they belie the concurrent realities of mass starvation, executions, and other hardships.
This exhibit is part of the Soviet Arts Experience. In one of the largest collaborative artistic efforts across Chicago, twenty-six of the city’s prominent arts institutions will join together in 2010, 2011 and 2012 to present The Soviet Arts Experience, a 16-month-long showcase of works by artists who created under (and in response to) the Politburo of the Soviet Union.
The exhibit will run from November 2, 2011 to June 15, 2012 and is located in the 3rd floor lobby of Deering Library.
Best of Bologna: Edgiest Artists of the 2008 International Children's Book Fair
This exhibit presents a selection of artists chosen from an original pool of more than 3,000 who entered a competition to be featured at the Bologna Book Fair, the world's largest annual children's book event. The illustrations on display are extremely high-resolution copies of originals that were digitized by the Library's Digital Collections department and are also displayed online, along with a film about the Bologna Book Fair created by created by Ayami Morizumi in 2007. Their permanent installation was made possible by the Walter A. and Dawn Clark Netsch Fund.
The permanent exhibit is located on the fourth floor of Northwestern University Library and is free and open to the public daily from 8:30 am - 10 pm.
