Mar 24, 2010
The Poet’s Eye: Literary Broadsides from Special Collections
"The Poet’s Eye: Literary Broadsides from Special Collections” is the spring 2010 exhibit in the Simon Room in honor of National Poetry Month in April…
Past Exhibits
Feb 4, 2010
Islam in Africa: A Pilgrimage to Touba, Senegal. Photographs by David Katzenstein
For three days each year, the population of the west African city of Touba in Senegal swells from its normal 900,000 inhabitants to more than four million…
Sep 15, 2009
Parini’s Picks: Thirteen Books that Changed America
The winter of 2008 marked the publication of Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America by poet, novelist, critic, and distinguished Lafayette…
Sep 15, 2009
Madona del Maiz: The Virgin of Guadalupe in Iowa
An exhibit of photographs by Marguerite Nicosia Torres that documents an immigrant community’s devotion to Mexico’s patron saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe…
Apr 29, 2009
Lafayette, We Are Here
On July 4, 1917, General John J. Pershing, commander of the newly-arrived American Expeditionary Force in Europe, made a special pilgrimage to a small…
Feb 15, 2009
A Modern Woman: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Christy Girl
Artist Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) came onto the scene of American magazine and book illustration just as it exploded into the twentieth century…