NEWS AND UPDATES The Jones Collection received a makeover! New signage and an updated lobby area which features several pieces of antique film projection equipment from the vault. On Sunday, January 14, 2018, Curator Jeremy Spracklen hosted a Q&A at the Texas Theatre with director Peter Flynn, following Flynn’s documentary on film exhibition, The Dying of…Continue Reading February 2018 Jones Film Archive Update
Marsh Terry, also known as “Mr. SMU,” was born this day–February 7. He was a long-term friend of the DeGolyer Library. For a while, he even had an office (Room 318) here. Marsh graduated from SMU. Marsh worked at SMU. Marsh taught at SMU. And Marsh wrote about SMU. From High on the Hilltop is…Continue Reading Remembering Marsh Terry
This curatorial discussion on the Hawn Gallery exhibition, Clear, Deep, Dark, focuses on its artist, Julie Morel. Every two weeks during the exhibition’s run, Curatorial Fellow, Emily Rueggeberg, will post a new article highlighting one or more of Morel’s pieces from the exhibition to provide insight into the artist’s creative and theoretical processes….Continue Reading Curatorial discussion #1: Clear, Deep, Dark
In January 2018, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 169 items into CUL Digital Collections. Highlights include: 47 documents, ca. 1878-1910, 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…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: January 2018
Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Velma Davis Dozier and Esther Webb Houseman met while taking a metalworking class from Thetis Lemon, a talented artist herself, at the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman’s University) in the early 1930s. While…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artists Profile: The Lady Blacksmiths – Velma Davis Dozier & Esther Webb Houseman
The Hawn Gallery presents CLEAR, DEEP, DARK Works by Julie Morel On view: January 26 – March 11, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, January 26th, 5 – 7pm at the Hawn Gallery, located in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU Artist Julie Morel will conduct a gallery talk at 5:45 p.m….Continue Reading Hawn Gallery presents: Clear, Deep, Dark – Works by Julie Morel
Artist featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Janet Turner was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1914. Attending nature camps during the 1920s, she developed an early awareness of the outdoors and the beauty nature had to offer. Turner’s interest in…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Janet Elizabeth Turner
When people think about working in a rare book library, they imagine librarians reading books all day. What they don’t imagine is the hard physical work that we do many days. Lifting boxes of books. Shelving and reshelving books. Putting the pieces together for an exhibit. Moving the cases. Lifting the lids. Putting material…Continue Reading Under Construction–Putting the Pieces together for an Exhibit
Please join the G. William Jones Film & Video Collection’s moving image curator, Jeremy Spracklen, on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. at the Texas Theater for a screening of Peter Flynn’s 2015 documentary, The Dying of the Light. Following the screening, Flynn, the director of this documentary will be available for a Q & A…Continue Reading Screening and Q & A of The Dying of the Light
In December 2017, SMU’s Central University Libraries uploaded 196 items into CUL Digital Collections. Highlights include: 24 documents, ca. 1890s-1930s, 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. These promotional pamphlets and booklets…Continue Reading CUL Digital Collections Update: December 2017