Year: 2018

April 2018 Jones Collection Update

In the Media Fox 4 News’ story on North Texans’ response to MLK’s assassination featured footage from our KRLD News Film Collection.  That story can be found here: http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-texans-marched-held-prayer-services-following-mlks-assassination WFAA reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1966 visit to SMU using footage from the Jones Collection’s WFAA archive.  That story can be found here: http://www.wfaa.com/mobile/video/news/mlk-assassination-50-years-later/287-8065900…Continue Reading April 2018 Jones Collection Update

Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive, El Tajin Fieldwork

Isabel Truesdell Kelly (1906-1983) was a social anthropologist and archaeologist who specialized in Mexican cultures. She developed a scholarly interest in anthropology while a student at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and conducted fieldwork in 1931-1934 with the Coast Miwok and the Southern Paiute people. Kelly was an indefatigable field worker. She went to Mexico in…Continue Reading Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive, El Tajin Fieldwork

CUL Digital Collections Update: March 2018

In March 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 321 items into CUL Digital Collections. Highlights include: 17 documents, ca. 1879-1906, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: March 2018

THE HAWN GALLERY PRESENTS: CHROMARRAY

CHROMARRAY Works by Constance Lowe On view: April 6 – May 27, 2018  Opening Reception: Friday, April 6th, 5-7pm at the Hawn Gallery, located in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU Artist Connie Lowe will conduct a gallery talk at 5:45 p.m.   The Hawn Gallery presents Chromarray, works by Constance Lowe, featuring pieces from…Continue Reading THE HAWN GALLERY PRESENTS: CHROMARRAY

Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Ann Cushing Gantz

Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Born in Dallas on August 27, 1933, Ann Cushing moved with her parents, Maurice and Margaret Cushing, to Memphis, Tennessee in 1940 due to her father’s work with the Missouri Pacific Railroad.  Interested in art…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Ann Cushing Gantz

Curatorial Discussion #2: Julie Morel’s Reloaded (2017)

The following is the final curatorial discussion in a series of blog posts on the Hawn Gallery exhibition, Clear, Deep, Dark. This week’s piece explores Julie Morel’s print Reloaded (2017). In the exhibition, Clear, Deep, Dark, when one enters the gallery your eyes meet illuminated pieces mounted onto each of the four walls. The pinpoints of…Continue Reading Curatorial Discussion #2: Julie Morel’s Reloaded (2017)

Remembering Horton Foote

Horton Foote (1916-2009) was born this day, March 14. He grew up in Wharton, Texas and wrote about his childhood home in prose, plays, and productions for television and film. He is mostly known for his Oscar-winning screenplays for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Young Man in…Continue Reading Remembering Horton Foote

Jones Collection March Update

In The Media: On February 6, 2018, WFAA aired a piece on the Jones Collection, highlighting not only our recent work restoring and digitizing their news footage, but also focusing on the overall historical and cultural importance the Collection offers to SMU and the city of Dallas.  (Here) KERA wrote this piece on the Jones…Continue Reading Jones Collection March Update

CUL Digital Collections Update: February 2018

In February 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 460 items into CUL Digital Collections. Highlights include: 34 documents, ca. 1875-1910, into the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection as part of the TexTreasures FY2018 grant program, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Striving to attract immigrants to Texas, these promotional…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: February 2018

Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Mary Beasley Nye

Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Mary Beasley Nye was born in 1918 in Texarkana, Texas, but she was brought to Dallas as a young child. A 1933 graduate of Highland Park High School, she attended Southern Methodist University. She later…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Mary Beasley Nye

 

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