The Vivian L. Aunspaugh Art Club was organized in 1945 by former and current students of Miss Vivian Louise Aunspaugh and others interested in studying art in Dallas. Miss Aunspaugh, a native of Virginia, studied art in New York and France prior to moving to Dallas in 1891. She soon taught art classes in local…Continue Reading Collection Spotlight: Vivian L. Aunspaugh Art Club records
On Saturday, October 22nd, SMU’s Central University Libraries co-sponsored an event with Dallas VideoFest, October 18-23, to highlight the WFAA collection, which is a CUL collection in the process of digitization by the G. William Jones Film and Video archive. Here is the clip reel shown at that event. Highlights include rare clips of celebrities such as Jimi…Continue Reading How the News Got Made: Highlights from Dallas VideoFest 2016
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…Continue Reading On view: R3clamation: Routes & Roots, An Installation by Basil Kincaid
Images by Mariza Morin…Continue Reading Pictorial: R3clamation: Routes & Roots – exhibition opening Oct. 28th
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
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
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
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
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
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