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Events & Exhibits

EXHIBIT | FROM THE VAULTS: CHECK OUT RARE ART ITEMS AT THE UW ARCHIVES!

Mar 25, 2024 – Mar 28, 2024

113 Music Building: Mar 26-Mar 28, 11am-1pm

101 Art Building: Mar 25 & Mar 27, 11am-1pm

The UW Music and Art Libraries, in partnership with UW Libraries’ Special Collections, will be showing off a variety of rare arts-themed items from their archives. Ordinarily available by appointment only, these unique materials will be on display via “pop up” tabling events at the Music and Art Libraries. More Information

EVENT & EXHIBIT | OPENING RECEPTION: THE BARBARA WINSLOW (FEMINIST) PAPERS

Thurs Mar 28, 2024, 3:30-5:00pm

Suzzallo Library, Smith Room (3rd floor)


Noted feminist and historian Barbara Winslow, author of Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle, and friends will share their perspectives as we mark the opening of Winslow’s papers in Special Collections. More Information

From March 4-29, you can view notable features of Winslow’s work in a new display on the Allen North Library mezzanine.

EXHIBIT | CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE SEATTLE GAY NEWS

Mar 7, 2024 – Apr 12, 2024

Allen Library

The Seattle Gay News, one of the longest-running LGBTQ in the world, is officially 50! Explore the history of a newspaper that has served the Seattle gay community since March 1974, reporting on arts, culture, health, politics, civil rights, and more. We celebrate the newspaper by presenting headlines and examples of how it covered the local, national, and international happenings and highlighting how the UW Libraries and the Washington State Library preserve and make it accessible to all. More Information

EXHIBIT | THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

Mar 18, 2024 – Sep 19, 2024

Allen Library South – Special Collections Reading Room from 10am – 4:45pm Monday through Friday

Explore the relationship between the graphic novel and the potency with which they tell stories of identity, memory, and culture through this UW Libraries Special Collections Spring/Summer exhibit. We hope to see you there! Details here

EXHIBIT | BREAKING BREAD

Sep 26, 2023 – Nov 29, 2024

Special Collections Lobby Allen Library South Basement during open hours
Cookbook like background with Breaking Bread as text

Learn about connections to a multitude of different foodways and food cultures throughout the academic year as Special Collections shares a different set of items from its collection at the end of each quarter. More Information

RELATED MEDIA

History of Costume Design

See a sample from the digital collection

Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writers Lecture