Clara Drummond, curator and exhibitions coordinator for the Eberly Family Special Collections Library, has received an award from the Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, for “Field Guide to Fairy-Tale Wolves,” an exhibition catalog she created as a companion to last year's physical exhibition titled “What Big Eyes You Have: Looking at the Wolf in Fairytales."
Penn State University Libraries and the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will host “Dickens, Christmas and Family Ties,” four days of events in celebration of the 175th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens’ beloved novella “A Christmas Carol.” All events will be held in Paterno Library on the University Park campus and are free and open to the public.
A new exhibit featuring appetizing books, award-winning cookbooks, manuscripts and archival materials from the Penn State’s University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections and the Libraries’ circulating collection of culinary art is on display through Jan. 13, 2019. The exhibit is located in the Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, and in Sidewater Commons, located on the first floor of Pattee Library on the University Park campus.
The nonprofit art organization Through the Flower invites artists, scholars and educators to apply for the annual award named in honor of Judy Chicago, one of the Feminist Art Movement’s key founders. Penn State, through the University Libraries, is one of three institutions nationwide that houses content comprising the Judy Chicago Portal and administers the award. Applicants who have developed primary research or teaching projects related to “The Dinner Party” Curriculum Project or another project incorporating any Judy Chicago archival content may do so by the March 1 deadline.
The Palmer Museum of Art will present a new exhibition titled "Asher B. Durand: To Begin Again" from Sept. 5 through Dec. 10. This exhibition focuses on the early career of this leading artist of the Hudson River School. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Durand’s first commissioned landscape painting, "Boonton Falls, New Jersey," which the museum recently acquired.
Seth Lerer, distinguished professor of literature at the University of California at San Diego, will present “Children’s Literature and the Art of the Book” as the 2016 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts at 4:30 p.m. March 31 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
Penn State University Libraries’ most recent addition to the Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal completes a serial installation of a living archive on feminist art education supported through the Libraries’ archive of the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection. Established in 2014, the portal acts as a four-part resource of the artist’s online art education archive that can be used across disciplines.
An annual award administered by the Penn State School of Visual Arts — and honoring artist, author and educator Judy Chicago and her many varied accomplishments, including "The Dinner Party" — also benefits primary and secondary art education teachers who extend students' understanding of and appreciation for the achievements of women.
Timothy Pyatt, the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State, has been appointed dean of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University.
The public is invited to an open house celebration titled “The Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of Marian Anderson’s Historic 1939 Lincoln Memorial Concert” from 2 to 5 p.m. April 9 in the Charles Blockson Collection Room, Floor 3, Pattee Library, west.
The public is invited to discover What’s “special” in the Special Collections Library, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 11, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, Penn State University Park.
Opening the doors to his library is important to Tim Pyatt, the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and head of The Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State's University Park campus. This past spring he created research travel awards using funding from his endowed position and from a recent gift in memory of Helen F. Faust. Seeing the awards as an opportunity to showcase the wealth of materials in the library, he said, "I see travel grants as a great way to promote use and disseminate information about our collections."
The award winners of the successful initiative included researchers from as far away as England as well as Texas, New York, Virginia and Iowa.
