Digital Exhibits
A history of digital exhibitions curated from collections held within or cultivated by the WashU Libraries.
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Stanley Elkin was a prolific fiction and essay writer and a professor of creative writing at WashU for 35 years. His beloved wife Joan (Jacobson) Elkin of 42 years was just as prolific a visual artist. Stanley dedicated almost all his books to Joan and he was the subject of inspiration for many of her paintings, illustrations, and collages. This digital exhibition is a companion to the onsite exhibition of the same name.
A digital companion to the "Gateway to the East: China at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair" exhibition in the John M. Olin Library Ginkgo Reading Room, from January 27 to April 21, 2024.
This exhibit is dedicated to the 100th birthday of Eileen Chang 張愛玲 (Zhang Ailing, 1920–1995), one of the most influential female Chinese writers in the 20th century. Here we focus mostly on female characters depicted by Eileen Chang, in particular, middle-class women in the two modern cities, Shanghai and Hong Kong, their choices of love and desires for money and power in a male-dominated society and during turbulent wartime in the 1940s and 1950s
"William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence" explores the life and work of William H. Gass (1924-2017), an esteemed American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, photographer and philosophy professor.
An online exhibit exploring key moments in the history of music and segregation in mid-twentieth century St. Louis, Missouri.
Documenting Ferguson is a freely available resource that seeks to preserve and make accessible the digital media captured and created by community members following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014.
Exhibition curated by MFA-IVC first year graduate students to fill their spring 2024 course requirement. The students conducted research with materials from the Dowd Illustration Research Archive, Rare Books, and other collections and were responsible for organizing individual exhibitions in order to gain an understanding of practical and theoretical issues related to studying and displaying collections.
A food ad collection presenting the relationship between food and women's bodies.
The Domestic Pulp exhibition is curated by Professor Douglas B. Dowd, Andrea Degener, Interim Dowd Illustration Research Archive Curator. The digital exhibition is modeled after the physical exhibition, which was on view in the Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration at John M. Olin Library, on view from August 17-December 17, 2023.
The Urban Books digital exhibition is intended as a study resource for students in the Urban Books course, an interdisciplinary project combining urban theory, graphic design, and the production of artists’ books, which has been taught at WashU since 2004. The exhibition also includes student final projects from each year of the course.
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