Category: Events

Tino Ward: Phosphenes – Opening Reception, March 3, 5 – 7 pm in Hawn Gallery

Tino Ward: Phosphenes flyer

Tino Ward: Phosphenes Friday, March 3 5 – 7 p.m. Opening Reception Hawn Gallery, Hamon Arts Library, Owen Arts Center, SMU Campus 6100 Hillcrest Road, Dallas, TX 75205 Tino Ward, SMU MFA graduate (2020), will exhibit a suite of paper pulp paintings depicting symbols from anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger’s catalog of proto-linguistic signs found in ancient…Continue Reading Tino Ward: Phosphenes – Opening Reception, March 3, 5 – 7 pm in Hawn Gallery

Screening of restored film Club de Femmes (1936)

In collaboration with SMU’s World Languages and Literature program’s International Film Festival, Club de Femmes (1936) will be screened in the Jeff Gordon Film and Collections room on Tuesday, February 21 at 7 pm. The room is on the 3rd floor, 3210, Hamon Arts Library. Professor Rachel Ney, Senior Lecturer in French, provides a description…Continue Reading Screening of restored film Club de Femmes (1936)

Screening of The Teachings of the Hands on February 9 at 5 pm at the Hamon Arts Library

Recently concluding a screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this short fictional documentary combines reenactments of colonial occupation, landscape views, archival footage, environmental wounds and indigenous marks on the stones, and uncovers recent infrastructural development with its deep roots in colonialization. Follow the QR code to register….Continue Reading Screening of The Teachings of the Hands on February 9 at 5 pm at the Hamon Arts Library

Reparation Architecture – online lecture by Paulo Tavares on January 30 at 5 pm

In conjunction with the exhibition, Aquatic Channels, continuing in the Hawn and Pollock Galleries until February 19, 2023, researcher and architect Paulo Tavares will give an online discussion of the concept of “reparation architecture.” Tavares gives an overview of his upcoming talk on Monday, January 30 at 5 pm.  To register and access the zoom link…Continue Reading Reparation Architecture – online lecture by Paulo Tavares on January 30 at 5 pm

Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas featuring co-editor Judith Garrett Segura

  • Publication date January 12, 2023
  • Categories: Events, News
promotional flyer for exhibit: Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas

Friends of SMU Libraries and DeGolyer Library host a lecture and book signing event for Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas, featuring co-editor  Judith Garrett Segura. Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas combines carefully chosen excerpts from two publications by the late Dr. Mamie McKnight’s organization, Black Dallas Remembered. Through the excerpts chosen by editors George…Continue Reading Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas featuring co-editor Judith Garrett Segura

Living with the Trinity River: a talk with artist Laray Polk and canoeist Charles Allen – Nov. 17, 5 – 6 pm

Please join us for the panel, Living with the Trinity River: a talk with artist Laray Polk and canoeist Charles Allen. Gabriela Paiva de Toledo, curator of the fall 2022 exhibition, Aquatic Channels in the Hawn and Pollock Galleries, will moderate this discussion. It will take place at Hamon in the Reading Room, 1st floor….Continue Reading Living with the Trinity River: a talk with artist Laray Polk and canoeist Charles Allen – Nov. 17, 5 – 6 pm

Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination opening October 29, 1 – 5 pm

Aquatic channels: waterways, water resources, fluvial imagination reflects on rivers as complex systems shaping human and non-human existence in their multiple roles as fundamental resources for sustenance of life, spaces of political dispute, sites of memory and construction of discourses about possible futures. Presenting the works of Laray Polk (Dallas, Texas), Carolina Caycedo and David…Continue Reading Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination opening October 29, 1 – 5 pm

On-n-On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia E. Butler – opening reception Sept. 1, 5 – 7 pm

Feature work by Ciara Elle Bryant

On-n-On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia E. Butler will place Bryant’s new media installation work in dialogue with Butler’s literary influence on contemporary art practices. The exhibition will showcase Hamon Arts Library holdings related to Octavia Butler’s writing alongside a mixed media installation by Dallas artist Ciara Elle Bryant pertaining to identity, bibliography,…Continue Reading On-n-On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia E. Butler – opening reception Sept. 1, 5 – 7 pm

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with SMU Libraries!

  • Publication date April 26, 2022
  • Categories: Events, News

In partnership with the SMU Association of Asian and Pacific American Scholars and Allies (AAPASA), we encourage SMU students, faculty and staff to celebrate Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month by learning more about the AAPI community. Here are a few ways to do so: Read a book Contemporary Asian America includes essays on Asian…Continue Reading Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with SMU Libraries!

In Search of Belonging – Opening reception on April 23, 1 – 3 pm at the Hamon Arts Library

Kennedi, student, '22

In 2011, the Princeton Review ranked Southern Methodist University as the eleventh worst university for gay students. Then, in a dramatic shift a decade later, Campus Pride listed it among ten religious schools living up to LGBTQ-inclusive values in August 2021. However, the struggle for LGBT campus acceptance has lasted far longer than just one…Continue Reading In Search of Belonging – Opening reception on April 23, 1 – 3 pm at the Hamon Arts Library

 

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