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Exhibits archive

Use the menu below to browse past exhibits by academic year.

Fall 2023

E.W. Scripps: Life & Legacy
4th floor stairwell
Curator: Alexandra Hopkins, Greta Suiter

[Untitled Scripps poster exhibit]
4th floor 1951 Lounge
Curator: Nerissa Young

Let it Burn: Artists' Books and the Lure of the Flame
4th floor stairwell, 5th floor Mahn
Curator: Miriam Intrator, Michele Jennings
Digital Accompaniment

 

Spring 2024

Persian Poetry Manuscripts: A Journey Through Time
Digital exhibit
Curator: Mina Sadeghzadeh

[Untitled Founders Day exhibit]
Music & Dance Library, Glidden Hall
Curator: Mark Phillips

Eyeing the Everyday: Objects of the Ordinary
4th floor stairwell
Curators: Dr. Christi Camper Moore & students (Abby Bowman, Sarah Braun, Nicole Peterman, Erin Pfahler, William Hamilton, Nicole Derthick, Halina Dreger)

Classic Cinema's Trailblazing Women
4th floor lobby
Curator: Amanda Grinstead

From Satire to Advertisement: A Literary Record of the 1893 World’s Fair
5th floor Dean's suite
Curator: Jessica Licker

Fall 2022

Welcome Back Alumni!
5th Floor Lobby
Curator: Bill Kimok

With Honors: OHIO Community Contributions to Rare Books Research, Collecting, & Preservation
4th Floor Stairwell
Curator: Miriam Intrator

Homecoming 2022: Memories through the Music: Popular Music at OHIO's Homecoming Concerts
4th Floor 1951 Lounge and Online
Curator: Bill Kimok, Taylor Burnette

Ohio University in Africa: A historical look
1st Floor Center for International Collections
Curator: Araba Dawson-Andoh

International Education Week Photo Contest
1st Floor Center for International Collections 
November 13-20
Curator: Kate McClure, Global Affairs
Library coordinator: Araba Dawson-Andoh

 

Spring 2023

Meetings In The Margins: Encounters with Readers and Owners in Rare Books
4th Floor Stairwell and Online
Curator: Miriam Intrator

Wild gathered and garden grown: Appalachian Food and Foodways
4th Floor: 1951 Lounge/Service Desk
Curator: Sherri Saines

Plants & Printing 1485-1925: Botanical Illustration Through History
3rd Floor Fine Arts and Online
Curator: Morganna Marks
Library coordinator: Paul Campbell

Travels (to Athens) With a Brush
3rd Floor Fine Arts and Online
Curator: Haley Kean
Library coordinator: Michele Jennings

Ohio University in Africa: A historical look
1st Floor Center for International Collections
Curator: Araba Dawson-Andoh

Mapping the Historical Range Books of W. E. Peters: An Exploration of Athens County, Ohio Past and Present
5th Floor Lobby and Online
Curator: Erin Wilson

Margaret Boyd 150: OHIO Founders Day 2023
Digital exhibit
Curator: Janet Carleton, Taylor Burnett

Musical Instruments of the World
Music and Dance Library
Curator: Paschal Yao Younge, Jo Rollins
Library coordinator: Carla Williams

From Athens (Greece) to Athens (Ohio): Traveling Through Time and Place With the Classics
Digital exhibit
Curator: Emma Campbell

A Brief Look at the 1561 Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer
Digital exhibit
Curator: Hunter Humphreys

Artists@Alden: Rachel Hall
3rd Floor Fine Arts
Curator: Kelley Lach
Coordinator: Michele Jennings

Fall 2021

William Morris in Books and Leaves
5th Floor Lobby
digital accompaniment
curator: Miriam Intrator

OHIO Celebrates Juneteenth
4th Floor Stairwell
curator: Miriam Intrator, Michele Jennings

Homecoming 2021
digital exhibit
curator: Bill Kimok, Erin Wilson

Transgender Awareness Week
4th floor 1951 Lounge
curator: Carmen Szukaitis (TRANS group)
sponsor: Miriam Intrator, Michele Jennings

 

Spring 2022

Founder's Day 2022
digital exhibit
curator: Bill Kimok, Erin Wilson

Nevertheless, She Persisted Through Time
4th Floor Stairwell
curator: Miriam Intrator, Margaret Boyd Scholars Program

The Lynn Johnson Collection
digital exhibit
curator: Laura Smith

Identimatics: Deciphering the Mathematical grammar of Kente patterns
3rd Floor Fine Arts
curator: Danial A. Opoku
sponsor: Michele Jennings

Fall 2020

[in person exhibits not held due to coronavirus pandemic and partial closure of Alden Library and Music and Dance Library]

Spring 2021

[in person exhibits not held due to coronavirus pandemic and partial closure of Alden Library and Music and Dance Library]

Fall 2019

Celebrate 50 years of Dance: Nikolais/Louis pioneers of Dance
5th floor Mahn Center
Curator: Stacey Lavender, lorraine wochna

Only at OHIO: Distinctive Collections and Highlights from 50 Years at Alden Library
4th floor Alden Library
Curator: Stacey Lavender, Miriam Nelson, Michele Jennings

Homecoming display
Alden Library 1951 Lounge
Curator: Bill Kimok

Spring 2020

Founders' Day Exhibit
5th floor Mahn Center
Curator: Carla Williams, Chris Guder, Joey Walden

[Suffrage]
4th floor Alden Library
Curator: Miriam Intrator

Progression of Waves
3rd floor Fine Arts
Curator: Michele Jennings, Heaven Herrold

Summer 2018

Ohio University during the First World War
5th floor (Voinovich Room)
Curator: Sara Harrington, Cyrus Moore

Fall 2018

From the Athens Lunatic Asylum to The Ridges: 150 Years of Hospital and Community
5th floor Mahn Center
Curator: Stacey Lavender, Karmen Beecroft

Blunden exhibit
4th floor Alden Library
Curator: Miriam Intrator

Frakenreads pop-up exhibit
Alden Library 1951 Lounge
Curator: Miriam Intrator

The Fine Arts Library of the Future
3rd floor Fine Arts
Curator: Michele Jennings, Professor Dan Harper

Spring 2019

Founders' Day Exhibit
5th floor Mahn Center
Curator: Bill Kimok

Sarah Minor: Beasts of the Interior
4th floor Alden Library
Curator: Miriam Intrator, Michele Jennings

Melissa Haviland: Navigating Turbulence
Alden Library 1951 Lounge
Curator: Janet Hulm

New Old Images
3rd floor Fine Arts
Curator: Maggie Prest

Los Braceros: The Photographs of the Hermanos Mayo Collective
1st Floor Center for International Collections
Curator: Jeffrey Ferrier, Professor Arthur Hughes