Exhibits

From June-August, 2007, the exhibit cases were filled with a variety of art from Asolare Fine Arts Foundation. This group, centered near Salisbury, NC, supports local artists of all kinds. We were privileged to have paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings on view this summer. Painting by Daniel Whitmer

Paintings by Daniel Whitmer, NCSA graduate and Asolare Fellow, were placed on display in Aguust 2007.

The 1st Dr. Elizabeth Phillips Award for the Best Essay in Women’s and Gender Studies prompted an exhibit.

Dr. Phillips, Emeritus Professor of English, was one of the first female professors, and the first female department head at Wake Forest. Phillips is a noted author and poet. She taught at Wake Forest from 1957-1989. The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies is offering the first award in honor of Dr. Phillips this year.

On April 12, 2007, the ZSR Library honored Maya Angelou for her gift of the papers from her films. These manuscripts, photos, personal notes, playbills, etc. are a huge and valuable collection that will assist researchers in the future.

On April 12, 2007, the ZSR Library honored Maya Angelou for her gift of the papers from her films: Down in the Delta; Sister, Sister; On A Southern Journey; The Blacks; and Georgia, Georgia. These manuscripts, photos, personal notes, playbills, etc. are a huge and valuable collection that will assist researchers in the future.

Photographs from the reception can be seen online.

March is Womens’ History Month!

The 2007 Womens’ History Month exhibit focuses on North Carolina women- artists and writers.

Using the idea of a “tag cloud” from social software web sites, I singled out terminology I found in the index of Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings. These terms, in a visible way said very much about the content of the Civil Rights Movement, and made the backdrop for the Black History Month exhibit in 2007.

Using the idea of a “tag cloud” from social software web sites, I singled out terminology I found in the index of Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings. These terms, in a visible way said very much about the goals, methods, and spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and made the backdrop for the Black History Month exhibit in 2007. The exhibit also contained photos and books about black history.

The death of President Gerald R. Ford in late 2006, led to an exhibit on his presidency and his association with Wake Forest University.

President Gerald Ford assumed the presidency at a difficult time, just after the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, in August, 1974. This exhibit covered Ford’s presidency, the events during this time (1974-1977), and his association with Wake Forest University.

Banned Books Week exhibit - September 2006-featuring the top 10 banned books from the past year.

Each year, during the last week of September, the American Library Association (ALA) celebrates Banned Books Week. This is an opportunity to see what books have been banned or censored in various communities across the US, and why. This event attempts to educate Americans to preserve the freedom to read what they want without any form of censorship. ALA keeps a tally of books being challenged or banned and why. ZSR Library places an exhibit up each year in support of Banned Books Week.

Filippo Brunelleschi: The Man, His Machines and His Dome-This exhibit, accompanied by a ThinkPad playing a video on The Medici, described Brunelleschi’s efforts to build a dome on top of a church in Florence. During this time, the knowledge on how to engineer such an undertaking was all but lost.

This exhibit began as a book recommendation by former Arts Reference Librarian, Rebecca Kranz. Rebecca said, “Craig, you ought to read Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King.” After I read this book, I was amazed at what this man did. The technology to build a dome was practically lost. The church that would support the dome had sat open to the rain for over 100 years because no one could figure out how to place a dome on top. Brunelleschi, a former goldsmith, spent time studying the Panthenon in Rome and developed a plan. Not only did he devise a way to place a dome on a roofless building (Santa Maria del Fiore), but he designed and built the cranes and hoists as well. I like to think that Brunelleschi scaled up his goldsmithing gears to design gears to raise his cranes and hoists. Brunelleschi also devised a unique method of laying the bricks on the dome’s inner shell that allowed him to build without any internal supports. His use of 2 parallel shells to make his dome reduced the overall weight of the dome. Think about it, Brunelleschi didn’t start building at ground level-he had to start at the top of the walls, hundreds of feet off the ground. This dome is beautiful, practical, and is symbolizes the Renaissance in Italy.

Dr. Harold Tedford lent the library his collection of Mona Lisa “knock offs” and ephemera for an exhibit. These include cars, jewelry, books, etc. The exhibit was very well recieved by everyone.

Dr. Harold Tedford lent the library his collection of Mona Lisa “knock offs” and ephemera for an exhibit. These include cars, jewelry, books, etc. The exhibit was very well received by everyone.

Secrest Series 2006-2007. this exhibit highlighted all the music performing artists coming to Wake Forest this season. The Secrest Series brings internationally known artists to our campus.

The Secrest Artist Series was endowed in 1987 by Marion Secrest, a local performing arts patron, in honor of her deceased husband, Willis Secrest. The best of established artists in the performing arts and the most promising new artists appear each year, without admission charge to the students, faculty, and staff of Wake Forest University. We’ve had some great artists over the years, including Ravi Shankar and Itzhak Perlman.