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- A Roll of the Dice: new Main Library Gallery exhibit explores one poem’s worldwide influence
The Main Library Gallery’s spring 2025 exhibition, A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive, highlights a series of captivating artworks from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. From laser-etched plexiglass panels hanging from the ceiling to a knit […]
- Exploring women’s Hawkeye Histories with the Iowa Women’s Archives
In curating Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, Dr. Jennifer Sterling worked with the staff of the Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA) and the University Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries to select collection materials that bring Iowa’s athletic history to life. Many of those items help […]
- In the making: Soccer star Samantha Cary talks about her jersey’s inclusion in ‘Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories’
When Dr. Jennifer Sterling of the Department of American Studies and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication took on the role of curator for the Main Library Gallery’s fall 2024 exhibition, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, she knew she’d have over a century of material to sort […]
- In the making: Hannah Sieperda is proud to see women’s wrestling headgear in ‘Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories’
When Dr. Jennifer Sterling of the Department of American Studies and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication took on the role of curator for the Main Library Gallery’s fall 2024 exhibition, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, she knew she’d have over a century of material to sort […]
- Curation in real time: the scrapbooks that tell our ‘Hawkeye Histories’
When Dr. Jennifer Sterling set out to create the fall 2024 Main Library Gallery exhibit, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, she chose to include a handful of scrapbooks from the Iowa Women’s Archives and the University Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries. These items add a personal […]
- A hawk’s-eye view of Iowa football history in ‘Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories’
Football is threaded into the University of Iowa’s DNA, and the importance of that connection is never clearer than during the height of football season. The sport also forms a crucial throughline in this semester’s Main Library Gallery exhibition, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, curated […]
- For fall 2024, ‘Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories’ brings Iowa’s athletic excellence to the Main Library Gallery
The Main Library Gallery’s fall 2024 exhibition, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, uses materials from the archives to offer a fresh perspective on Iowa athletics from the 1800s to the present. The free exhibition opened to the public on Monday, Aug. 26, and was curated by Dr. Jennifer […]