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    Building Our Own Community: 50 Years of the Latino Native American Cultural Center, Founded by Chicano and American Indian Students in 1971
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    Sackner Archive
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  • UI Presidential Portraits
August 24 - December 18, 2020

Sackner Archive

January 23 - March 29, 2020

The Pull of Horses on National and Local Histories and Identities

August 26, 2019 - January 3, 2020

Rising Together | Protest in Print

Walt Whitman
April 5 - August 9, 2019

Walt Whitman: A Bicentennial Celebration

February 1 – March 15, 2019

Seeing Seeking Feeling Reading: Granary Books

World War II helmet in a field
September 7, 2018 – January 4, 2019

Stories Worth Telling: Marking 20 Years of "The Greatest Generation"

Brinton in a theater next to a movie projector surrounded by the audience.
April 23 – August 3, 2018

Brinton's Famous Moving Pictures & the Emergence of Early Film in America

In a yearbook-like grid of white, student faces, one young, black woman is highlighted.
February 2 – March 11, 2018

Invisible Hawkeyes

September 11 – December 29, 2017

25 Collections for 25 Years: Selections from the Iowa Women’s Archives

Power to the Printers:  The Alternative Press in Iowa City, 1965-1985 (Exhibit dates:  May 15 - August 25, 2017)
May 15 – August 25, 2017

Power to the Printers: The Alternative Press in Iowa City, 1965-1985

January 18 - April 28, 2017

Documenting Dada / Disseminating Dada

Portrait of William Shakespeare
August 29 – December 30, 2016

Shakespeare, First Folio

April 25 – August 5, 2016

50 Years of Star Trek

February 1 – April 8, 2016

Explorer’s Legacy: James Van Allen and the Discovery of the Radiation Belts

The current Main Library Gallery space has been used as an exhibition space for decades. A list of previous exhibitions (prior to the Gallery remodel) can be found here.

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