UCSC Library Special Collections--previous exhibits and events

Exhibits in Special Collections

Recent acquisitions of prints and artist books displayed

Fall Quarter 2007
UCSC Special Collections

John Cage: "Trial print for Norman and Beth Brown, 1978" (from his "Seven Day Diary: Not Knowing," printed at Crown Point Press, Oakland)

Robert Anson Heinlein Centennial Celebration 2007

Renowned author Robert Heinlein’s birth and legacy will be celebrated this centennial year in a major conference in Kansas City, Missouri July 6-8^th. For more information click here.

The Santa Cruz Coast:
Then & Now
An exhibit in Spring quarter

Please join us for a talk by
Gary Griggs, Professor of Earth Sciences at UCSC, & architect Deepika Shrestha Ross on the physical evolution of the Santa Cruz coastline.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Special Collections
McHenry Library, UCSC

This lecture is part of the Mosaic Lecture Series on intersections in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Brett Weston Photographs:
February 1- March 29, 2007

[Please note: the exhibit was originally scheduled to end on March 30, but that date is an all-University holiday and the Library will be closed.]

A selection of photographs gifted to UCSC Special Collections by Christian Keesee and the Brett Weston Archive, Oklahoma City. The exhibit also includes portraits of the photographer made by his father Edward Weston from Special Collections' Weston Collection.

For further information on this recent gift see this article from UCSC Currents.

Lou Harrison: Art, Calligraphy, and Music Compositions
1927- Present
Selections from the Lou Harrison Archive
Special Collections
Exhibit closes January 26, 2007

Please join us for a talk by Harrison biographer, musicologist, and UCSC Professor Leta Miller on "Lou Harrison Musical Trailblazer"

Thursday October 26, 2006
4:00 - 6:00 pm
in Special Collections.

Spring Quarter Exhibit
Word/Image: Letter/Picture
A selection of 'Zines, Broadsides, Books, and Poetry
in Special Collections

"End of Cyberspace"
A talk by
Dr. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang,
Research Director at the
Institute for the Future

Tuesday April 25, 2006
4:00 - 5:30 pm
in Special Collections

Launch of the Rowland website and index

Saturday, April 15th
10 a.m. - noon
in Special Collections

Joan Gilbert Martin and Stan Stevens will demonstrate their searchable index and discuss the Rowland research site

Sponsored with Researchers Anonymous of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

D U E T
An exhibition of photographic work
by Erik Lauritzen

January 9 - March 22, 2005
in Special Collections

There will be a conversation with the photographer followed by a reception on
Saturday, March 11
2:00-4:00 p.m.

New Work from Moving Parts Press: COSMOGONIE INTIME
A fine press artist's book by Felicia Rice, with illustrations by Ray Rice

Exhibit--September 26 to December 8, 2005

The Cowell Press and Its Legacy: 1973-2004
Exhibit--July 11-Sept. 8, 2005

Picturing Santa Cruz
March 28-June 17, 2005

Pictures of life, work, and play in beautiful Santa Cruz as shown through postcards, color lithographs, oil paintings, and photographs.

"Would that I were somewhere...."

Seema Weatherwax
Jason Weston
Focusing Through Time: a unique story of Friendship, Photography, and Collaboration

January 3-March 18, 2005

PAUL RITSCHER

INFLUENCES: THE ART OF WOOD ENGRAVING
Sept 27 - Dec 10, 2004

COMIC RELIEF
July 1 - Sept. 10, 2004

Maidu Creation Myth
Spring Quarter 2004

Accidental Heterodoxy: a collaborative portfolio project from the UCSC Printmaking program

Jan. 5 to Mar. 18, 2004

Regional History Exhibit

Out in the Redwoods
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at UC Santa Cruz, 1965-2003

Jan. 12 to Mar. 19, 2004

The Friday Shakespeare Club

Oct. 8 - Dec. 11, 2003

Contact Christine Bunting (cbunting@ucsc.edu). Revised 7/18/07