Challenging Popular Perceptions of Native Americans: Lessons from Researching in Special Collections

While researching and gathering sources for his exhibit in the University of Arkansas Libraries’ Special Collections about missionary activity in territorial Arkansas, intern Patrick Angyal couldn’t help but come face to face continually with stereotypes and tropes of Native Americans perpetuated by white publications….Continue Reading Challenging Popular Perceptions of Native Americans: Lessons from Researching in Special Collections

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Beyond the Cases in The Art of the Book, The Book as Art Exhibition

An exhibit currently on display on the second floor of Mullins Library, “The Art of the Book, The Book as Art,” explores the ways that artists extend the format of the book through the incorporation of visual elements….Continue Reading A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Beyond the Cases in The Art of the Book, The Book as Art Exhibition

Libraries to Provide Display for Arkansas Women in Politics Event Sunday

Janine Parry, professor of political science at the U of A, will present “The Nice Lady of Arkansas Politics: Virginia Johnson and the 1968 Governor’s Race” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in the Winslow Branch Library, located at 351 Highway 71. The Libraries will provide a display of materials from our Special Collections. …Continue Reading Libraries to Provide Display for Arkansas Women in Politics Event Sunday

Libraries Provide Exhibit for Walton Arts Center Poetry Crawl Saturday

From noon to 1:30, an exhibit will be on display at the Fayetteville Public Library with materials from the University of Arkansas Libraries’ Special Collections. Materials will include first and limited editions of Wright’s published work, along with fine art broadsides and archival pieces from her personal library….Continue Reading Libraries Provide Exhibit for Walton Arts Center Poetry Crawl Saturday

Rosa Marinoni and Lew Ney: the Local Poet and Greenwich Village Publisher

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Special Collections will celebrate National Poetry Month 2019 with an exhibit honoring Arkansas’s own Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, curated by Hannah Bradley, a candidate for an MFA in poetry and Special Collections intern. 

Materials in connection with Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, the longtime Fayetteville resident, will be on display in Special Collections this April. …Continue Reading Rosa Marinoni and Lew Ney: the Local Poet and Greenwich Village Publisher