Category: Hamon Arts Library

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

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)

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

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

February 2018 Jones Film Archive Update

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

Curatorial discussion #1: Clear, Deep, Dark

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

Bywaters Special Collections Artists Profile: The Lady Blacksmiths – Velma Davis Dozier & Esther Webb Houseman

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

Hawn Gallery presents: Clear, Deep, Dark – Works by Julie Morel

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

 

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