Exhibitions A-Z
This is a list of all exhibitions in alphabetical order.
May 26th - June 10th, 2022 in Beuth Atrium.
The James Joyce Collection at Union College is housed in Schaffer Library's Special Collections and Archives. A small, yet rich collection of rare editions and ephemera, the James Joyce Collection offers researchers unique items related to international Bloomsday events, first and rare editions, and Joycean ephemera.
Digital Exhibit: March 18th, 2020
The goal of the exhibit is to recognize the sisterhood of students whose accomplishments have helped shaped Union’s success. With courage and commitment, these women and others, alongside students of color, helped build the foundation for a more diverse student body, faculty and leadership at Union College. Today, women represent 47 percent of enrolled students.
March 1st - April 1st, 2024 in the Beuth Atrium
“A Mutual Need for Friendship in New Surroundings”: The Union College Student Wives Association and Childcare Center, 1965-1986. This exhibition features materials from two collections in Union’s archives: the Student Wives Association of Union College and the Childcare Center Reunion Collection.
March 23rd - June 9th, 2023 in Beuth Atrium.
The Osmond D. Putnam photographs (ARL-081) provide a glimpse into the close of the 19th century as the Adirondacks moved from an isolated wilderness to a permanently settled part of the state. The communities in which Putnam took photographs were not the great camps and high peaks of the seasonal tourist. Rather, they were the remote valleys where settlers labored to eke out a hard-scrabble existence from the land around them.
January 5 - May 31, 2015 in the Lally Reading Room.
This display of artists' books is part of a larger, three-part exhibition, Mot Juste, a celebration of text and language in contemporary visual arts on view during winter term 2015.
October 20th - Spring, 2017 in the Beuth Atrium
This exhibit features Fitz Hugh Ludlow, A Nineteenth Century Writer and Adventurer best known to the Union College community for penning our Alma Mater, the Ode to Old Union.
February 2nd - September 30th, 2017 in the Lally Reading room.
The materials assembled in this exhibit introduce visitors to Afrofuturist musicians, authors and speculative artists, and retroactively designated Afrofuturists texts to challenge assumptions about the black experience. That is so say, the often racially coded Digital Divide is much narrower than once thought; there is a thriving Black cyberculture populated with Afropunks, Steamfunkers, Bleeks (black geeks) & Blerds (black nerds), and a very active black science fiction community who not only produce a vast body of speculative fiction but who also create comics, graphic fiction/nonfiction, film and speculative art.
Digital Exhibit: January 5th, 2018
This exhibit is a companion to a research website showcasing the works of author, artist, and printmaker William Blake to be released the Schaffer Library in late April, 2018. The development of the website would not have been possible with Union College's extensive collection of print facsimiles of Blake's illuminated books and commercial works. The presentation online of an enhanced catalog of this collection and the digitization of selected images, undertaken to inspire and promote student creativity, forever intertwines the digital with the print.
April 9th - September 21st, 2018 in the Lally Reading room.
This exhibit is a companion to a research website showcasing the works of author, artist, and printmaker William Blake to be released the Schaffer Library in late April, 2018. The development of the website would not have been possible with Union College's extensive collection of print facsimiles of Blake's illuminated books and commercial works.
April 19th - April 26th, 2024 located on the left of the doors into Lally Reading Room.
Featuring material from Union College's Special Collections and Archives department.
Digital Exhibit: July 13th, 2020
This website provides a general overview of the history of engineering at Union College and will hopefully serve as inspiration for those interested in learning more about this storied history.
May 30th - June 1st, 2014 in the Lally Reading room.
A mini three-day exhibit featuring memorabilia such as t-shirts, collectible figurines, frisbees, photos, etc, from the class of 1964.
May 5th - May 16th, 2019 in the Lally Reading room.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a Union College Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1902-1913 and Professor of Electro-Physics (non-teaching) from 1913-1923
April 15th - June 17th, 2024 in the Beuth Atrium
This exhibition showcases various scrapbooks, spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, produced by Union students, family members, clubs and organizations, and staff and faculty.
April 1st - May 31st, 2009 in the Lally Reading room.
This exhibit celebrated the conjunction of three events: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth in 1809, the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his On the Origin of Species in 1859, and the gift to Union College of a first and sixth edition of On the Origin of Species as well as the first volume of Darwin’s The Descent of Man (1871), all donated to the College by Aaron J. Feingold, Union College Class of 1972.
February 9th - March 31st, 2010 in the Lally Reading room.
The exhibit featured first editions of Dickens’ fiction and non-fiction writings on the United States as well as archival materials from the papers of John Bigelow (Union College Class of 1835), who became personally acquainted with Dickens during his “public readings” tour of the U.S. in 1867/68.
August 12th - November 15th, 2019 in the Lally Reading Room
In the winter of 2017, a lock of George Washington's hair was discovered in the stacks of the Special Collections Department at Union College, triggering an international media storm. The lock of hair was found in a small envelope that was tucked inside a rare book entitled Gaine's Universal Register (1793).
January 3rd - March 25th, 2024 in the Lally Reading Room
Dogs have shared our campus since the earliest days of Union College. This exhibit includes a brief history of Union College canines.
October 19th - February 11th, 2013 in the Lally Reading Room
Schaffer Library Gallery exhibits North-African Postcards depicting Jewish women, children, & families dating from the early twentieth century.
Digital Exhibit: December 5th, 2018
This website showcases themes and material available for further exploration in the John S. Apperson Jr. Papers and the Paul Schaefer Collection held at the Adirondack Research Library of the Kelly Adirondack Center at Union College in Schenectady, New York.