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Special Collections Features

Cloth book with the words "Dreaming It Forward" stitched on the spine. The front image is a woman carrying a basket on her head while holding the hand of a child. There is Urdu text above her.

Upcoming Exhibition

Knitted, Knotted, Spun: The Textuality of Textiles 

March 19, 2026 through Summer 2026

PRINTADELPHIA's Marsha Simmons instructs students on how to prepare press printing designs during a workshops

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Special Collections, Makerspace team up with Printadelphia for exhibition program

"Being able to experience the joys and challenges of hand printing posters will hopefully give new appreciation to our communities about the tactility of print" - Janelle Rebel, Seymour Adelman Director of Special Collections

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Display including historic outfits and a label that says "changing clothes"

Past Exhibition

Changing Clothes

August 28, 2025 - December 23, 2025

Coombe Suite, 2nd Floor Canaday Library

Overlayed designs from colorful posters with the words Say It! Poster Design & Graphic Messages.

Current Exhibition

Say It! Poster Design & Graphic Messages

August 28, 2025 - May 29, 2026

10:00am - 4:00pm Monday through Friday
1912 Gallery, Special Collections
1st Floor of Canaday Library

Students sit on their laptops in a circle

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Community Gathers for a Wikidata Edit-a-thon!

"By linking TriArte artist records with existing Wikidata records, we can simultaneously promote 51��Ƶ’s Special Collections as a repository of a given artist’s work and we can benefit from information about artists, including their demographic information, in ways that they themselves can control.” -Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager

Lynne Huffer adds collage element to her installation

Past Exhibition

FRAGMENTS //// Lynne Huffer at 51��Ƶ

March 20 - 22, 2024

Self Portrait of Artist wearing blue and red floral make-up as camouflage with wallpaper behind her

Past Exhibition

Not ~ At Home: Cecilia Paredes

October 25, 2023 – June 2, 2024

detail of work by artist Bethany Collins. Zoomed in to reveal erasure of text and remaining text "“but he continued to grieve for his native land, dragging his steps up and down along the shore of the sounding sea in great distress.”

Past Exhibition

Bethany Collins

March 17 - May 28, 2023, and ongoing

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Past Exhibition

A Rough Draft in Stone: Founding 51��Ƶ, 1872-1894

September 16, 2022 – December 16, 2022