Shain Library First Floor Exhibition Area
Labors of Love: Work, Family and Play in American Folk Photograph
American vernacular photographs from the collection of Natalie M. Curley, curated by students in AHI 250: Perspectives on Photography.
Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room
Guo Zhen: What is My Name?
The current exhibition at Connecticut College is the first to survey Guo Zhen’s 50-year journey as a Chinese and Chinese-American artist. Most of her early works exhibited here are being seen by the public for the first time, including rare sketches, drawings and paintings dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her later works present a radical break and departure from her earlier style, decrying and defying patriarchy and all forms of oppression, and exploring art as a tool of self-salvation and self-empowerment.
Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives
The Woodcut Art of Barry Moser
The Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives maintains a strong collection of three of the premier American wood engravers of the 20th century: Leonard Baskin, John DePol, and Barry Moser. This exhibition showcases the distinctive style of Barry Moser and his Pennyroyal Press, featuring several deluxe illustrated volumes and the magnificent 1999 folio Bible.