Exhibits, News and Events

Above and Beyond

Book art created by students in Michele Burgess’ The Art of the Book class is featured in the exhibit “Above and Beyond: An Exhibit of Student Work in the Book Arts.” The exhibit is in the gallery area outside of Special Collections (4th floor of the Library Addition) and runs through May 25. The art media and techniques used in each edition were chosen by students and adapted to editions standards, and included: hand binding, printmaking, painting, digital art and computer-generated imagery, letterpress, creative writing, metals, photography, wood and furniture techniques, ceramics and clay, drawing, sculpture, and fibers.

For more information about the exhibit, please call the Special Collections Department at (619) 594-6791.

Building Peace

The traveling exhibit "Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace" will be on display in the Donor Hall and Reference Services area through February 25. The exhibit is sponsored by the the SGI World Peace Student Club, the Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Ethnic Affairs, and the Department of Africana Studies. For more information, please contact (619) 594-6298 or visit the exhibit's Website.

America's Storyteller

The SDSU Library is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Mark Twain with a yearlong retrospective titled “The Adventures of Mark Twain: A Centenary Celebration.” Below is the schedule of events:

The SDSU School of Theatre, Television, and Film and the library are co-sponsoring the play A Mark Twain Centenary Tribute, which was written and directed by SDSU faculty member Margaret Larlham. Learn more about it here.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, director of Stanford University's American Studies Program, will discuss "Mark Twain - Ambassador at Large" at 3:30 in Room LL430. Fishkin is the author of many works on Twain, including the forthcoming Mark Twain's Book of Animals.

Lecture by Jerry Griswold, SDSU professor of English and Comparative Literature, "Twain's Twins, But I Repeat Myself," at 3:30 p.m. in Room LL430.

Edward Blum will speak about "Mark Twain and His Religious War Against Imperialism" at 3:30 p.m. in Room LL430. Blum is an SDSU assistant professor of history and a Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Linda Morris will discuss "Escaping in Style: Racial and Gender Crossing in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" at 3:30 p.m. in Room LL430. Morris is a professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, and the author of Gender Play in Mark Twain. This lecture is co-sponsored by the SDSU Women's Studies Department.

The library's Special Collections Department will host a Mark Twain exhibit on loan from Vanderbilt University.