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ng rod with a red bag as bait that reads "3 million" Two submerged whales swim toward the boat. A drawing of a seacoast is at far right and a masted ship is at far left.
July 8, 2023
AJ Laird ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 Senior Exhibit Fellowship, which offers the selected student an opportunity to create and curate an exhibit based on the topic of the senior essay.
Collage of black and white photos of twelve women, talking, posing, laughing
March 10, 2023
Wide-ranging online exhibits document the many contributions that the women of Yale have made to the university and the world.
Woman with long dark hair wearing dark rimmed glasses speaks before microphone.
February 28, 2023
Visitors gathered for the opening of the new Hanke Gallery’s third exhibition, Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America .
Woman with curly dark hair and wire-rimmed glasses poses alongside windows, with hallway and arched entrance behind her. The photo is black and white. She wears a striped turtleneck and plaid coat.
February 16, 2023
Nancy Escalante—PhD student in American Studies, whose exhibit Empire and Resistance is in the Hanke Gallery—found her passion and a path to her life’s work in the archives.
Close-up view of a glass display glass that shows a small yellowed horizontal scroll with Japanese characters in black ink. The scroll is in a white frame. Sitting behind the frame on a raised surface is a miniature wooden pagoda and a photograph showing the underside of the pagoda and Japanese characters there that spell the pagoda maker's name
January 25, 2023
A woodblock print of Buddhist prayers—dating from the eighth century—now sits alongside the fifteenth-century Gutenberg Bible, the first book-length work printed with movable time, in the Beinecke Library’s mezzanine exhibit.
Painted ticket that shows five people in Victorian dress riding down a roller coaster from the mountains. Pine trees and birds are visible below them. To left is the name of the ride "Le Caucase: Porte des Ternes Porte Maillot". in brown and blue type across mountain range. On the right in red ink is the ticket stub for the ride with a drawings of a woman holding the printed pass.
December 14, 2022
This exhibition showcases the Slavic collections of Yale Library—objects, photographs, posters, and books acquired over the course of 126 years.
View of wall display cases in exhibition corridor, with name of exhibition "Matters of Color" partially visible. Inside cases are displays of white paper with colorful geometric shapes
November 17, 2022
Yale Library is now accepting proposals from students to curate a 2023 Student Research at Yale Library exhibit in Sterling Memorial Library’s exhibition corridor.