Events & Exhibits

The collection of materials in this exhibit shows a changing portrait of how young people have been expected to behave and how expectations of behavior have changed over time.

Date/Time: May 1 2008 to May 30 2008
Location: Allen Lobby

Special Collections of the University of Washington Libraries presents

WRITING LESSONS/READING SESSIONS: Paintings/Bookworks - Dennis Evans

Exhibit runs through April 30, 2008
Special Collections Reading Room, Allen Library South, Basement

Writing Lessons/Reading Sessions is a series of paintings about the nature of the language faculty both in its function in the activity of reading and writing. The art works are constructed of multi-paneled paintings made with oil paint on beeswax applied to rigid canvas panels, often including etched glass and objects. They read from left to right, often made up of several panels which literally construct sentences, or phrases. Each artwork acts very similarly to our subject, verb, object sentence construction order thus making a sort of linguistic construct.

Complex devices used by the artist are the platonic solids; the triangle, square and circle; the three primary colors which are the building blocks of artistic or poetic expression and the NATO Phonetic alphabet.

Dennis Evans is a three time graduate of the University of Washington, with an MFA, a BFA and a BS [in Chemistry]. He has had 15 one-person exhibitions in the last ten years throughout the United States and over 40 in his 34-year exhibition career. Writing Lessons/Reading Sessions was last shown in New York City in 2003.

Date/Time: March 24 - May 30, 2008
Location: 3 locations: Suzzallo/Allen Library, Room 102 | Allen Library North Balcony | Special Collections Lobby

The traveling photographic exhibition "The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History" provides an electrifying visual history of the Black Panthers as photographed by Stephen Shames.

Date/Time: through May 31, 2008
Location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library