This semester in Temerlin Advertising Institute (TAI) in the Meadows School of the Arts, Professor Eunjin (Anna) Kim’s Digital Media Strategy 1 course, first-year advertising students on the digital track are working towards getting their Information Literacy Certificate. This certificate program is specially designed to help students nurture sophisticated secondary research skills in the field…Continue Reading Information Literacy Certificate prepares Temerlin students for professional research
Hawn Gallery presents R3clamation: Routes & Roots, An Installation by Basil Kincaid
The Hawn Gallery presents: R3clamation: Routes & Roots, An Installation by Basil Kincaid [If the map to freedom was etched on the inside of your forehead, would you carve back the skin and follow the route to your roots?] On view October 28th – December 11th, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, October 28th from 6-8 p.m….Continue Reading Hawn Gallery presents R3clamation: Routes & Roots, An Installation by Basil Kincaid
Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The news seemed so odd – what relevance does Bob Dylan have now? Is his work literature? Which work, or works, merit this prize? If the prize is in recognition of a body of work, where is the corpus? The collection? What does Dylan mean to those interested in what was, at least in the past,…Continue Reading Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
How the News Got Made: A Rare Look at SMU’s WFAA Newsfilm and a Conversation With the People Who Created It
Learn how the news was captured and shared, and gain a new appreciation for the hard work and ingenuity that went into making the WFAA nightly news throughout the 1960s and ’70s. A panel of notable WFAA staff, including on-screen personalities and behind the scenes personnel, will present clips from SMU’s Jones Film and Video…Continue Reading How the News Got Made: A Rare Look at SMU’s WFAA Newsfilm and a Conversation With the People Who Created It
GCI online exhibition – Octavio Medellin: Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings
The Bywaters Special Collections staff are happy to announce that SMU’s Central University Libraries is now a part of the Google Cultural Institute. BSC staff, Ellen Buie Niewyk, curated the first GCI exhibition with archivist, Emily George Grubbs. Octavio Medellin: Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938 is an exhibition curated from the holdings of photographs and documents of the artist from Bywaters…Continue Reading GCI online exhibition – Octavio Medellin: Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings
Collection Spotlight: G. J. Signaigo collection of theater materials
George Joseph Signaigo was a prominent Dallas businessman who co-owned the Brannon-Signaigo Cigar Company of Texas. The majority of the material in this collection consists of theater programs that were collected over the course of Signaigo’s life. The collection includes correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, publicity and published works relating to the theater ca. 1910-1930. Most of…Continue Reading Collection Spotlight: G. J. Signaigo collection of theater materials
Arts Management students tour Bywaters Special Collections
I have the pleasure of working with the International Arts Management graduate students here in Meadow’s Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship (AMAE) division. They represent a diverse mix of academic backgrounds and nationalities – coming out of film, theater, visual art, performing arts, or humanities backgrounds and originating from the United States, Europe, Canada, South America,…Continue Reading Arts Management students tour Bywaters Special Collections
CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2016
In September 2016, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 303 items into CUL Digital Collections. Highlights include: 26 items from the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution, including postcards, photographs, and clippings of Emiliano Zapata and his forces. Oraciones y exercicios devotos para oir misa…,1838, a Spanish book of prayers and…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: September 2016
WFAA Newsfilm Collection: Look what I found this week!
Greetings. My name is Jeremy Spracklen, and I am the moving image curator of the G. William Jones Film and Video Archive inside the Hamon Arts Library. One of my current projects is the digitization of the Library’s WFAA Newsfilm footage spanning from 1960 to 1977. Every other week I’m going to share a set of…Continue Reading WFAA Newsfilm Collection: Look what I found this week!