Displays, Exhibits, & Events
Presenting culture, heritage, and art in the library.
Examples of planning and curating I have been a part of on campus.
The Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, and Future
November 2021
The exhibit The Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, and Future features the history of the Waccamaw Indian People and their enduring culture through the display and interpretation of the belongings and personal stories integral to their Native American heritage.
The exhibit was created by Coastal Carolina University students working with assistant professor Katie Stringer Clary, Department of History, and professor Carolyn Dillian, Department of Anthropology and Geography.
Hostile Terrain 94
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.
The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found.
Coastal Scholar Symposium
Coming Soon
The symposium will offer a physical and virtual platform for scholars to showcase their work and research. It will be hosted by the Kimbel Library and the Coastal Office of Online Learning (COOL). More information on this new conference for Coastal Carolina University faculty and teaching professionals will be coming as it is made available.
Watercolor on Paper by CCU Student
MLK & Black History Month
January-February 2020
For Spring 2020, we joined with a campus-wide effort to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream of equality, equity, and justice.Â
In the library, we wrapped our four columns with African-American artists in the fields of music, literature, theater, and visual arts. Our large wall depicted a female African-American collage by one of our interns. We also hosted a change banner that was used during the final night of the MLK Week celebration.
Courtesy of the Hampton History Museum
Courtesy of the Hampton History Museum
Smithsonian
Courtesy of the Hampton History Museum
Space Science Exhibit
September 2019
Kimbel Library is proud to announce it will be hosting the traveling exhibit, When Computers Wore Skirts, from the Hampton History Museum in Virginia.
In conjunction with the exhibit, we will be displaying posters from the Smithsonian's Poster Exhibit, The Earth from Space. There will also be a special screening of Hidden Figures followed by a panel discussion with professors from the College of Science.
By Yvette Arendt(Assistant Professor) Visual Arts
By Yvette Arendt(Assistant Professor) Visual Arts
By Yvette Arendt(Assistant Professor) Visual Arts
CCU Creates: Original Art Exhibit
April-May 2019
We made an open call to faculty, staff, and students in the Visual Arts Department, as well as on our social media, for CCU creators to send in their original artwork. We also displayed work by several local artists. There were collages, oil paintings, pottery, cold wax work, and mummified fish, along with original written works from CCU's community.
Kimbel Library
April 10, 2019
Kimbel Library
Poetry Month
April 2019
We enhanced our annual poetry reading to include prose as well. In partnership with the English Department, we hosted 10 readers of poetry and short prose and around 30 audience members.Â
Next year we plan to include the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, in the collaboration as well.
RBG
Septima Poinsette Clark
Books, movies, music, and art by women or featuring women.
RBG
Women's History Month
March 2019
Four large posters featured women who are making or have made an impact on society: Ruth B. Ginsburg, M. Yousef, China's Feminist Five, and Septima Poinsette Clark.Â
A case was filled with pictures of women of all nationalities, along with a few inventions that affect our daily lives. We placed 40 table toppers all over the library, featuring women of different ethnic backgrounds in a wide range of professional fields.
Notable South Carolinians
Topped with Timeline
Martin Luther King
Notable South Carolinians
Black History Month
February 2019
We wrapped the four columns with black and white pictures of Harriett Tubman, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks.
The large case was filled with examples of work by African-American artists, musicians, educators, writers, and athletes.
The small case was full of CCU Alumni through the years.