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2001

  • APRIL 28 - MAY 31, 2001

    • Campbell Student Book Competition Winners
    The Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition is sponsored by the gift of the late Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Campbell, the friends of the UCLA Library, the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Library Staff Association, the UCLA Library, and other interested donors to stimulate student interest in book collecting and reading. This is an annual competition in which undergraduates and graduate students at UCLA are given the opportunity to display their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections.
  • JUNE 1 - JUNE 8, 2001

    • Consciousness of Women: Celebrate Art by Lydia Lam, Audrey Kawasaki, and Elliot Lim
    This was a student exhibit curated by Courtney Abrams and Patrick Lord to fulfill their final project requirement for their Honors Collegium class “Critical Vision: History of Art as a Social and Political Commentary.” Lam, Kawasaki and Lim are all student or young artists living in the Los Angeles area.
  • JUNE 11 - JUNE 29, 2001

    • Doodles: An Exhibition of Marginal Art
    Curated by student Megan Dickerson as part of a World Arts and Culture 199 independent studies course under folklore and mythology professor Patrick Polk. The doodles were created by UCLA students and fell into four categories: geometric shapes, figural drawings, caricatures, and dialogue. Challenging the notion that doodling results from boredom, the doodles were displayed against their original backgrounds to illustrate the students' conscious and/or unconscious interaction with the course material. Exhibit viewers were invited to share their own doodles within the exhibit itself.
  • JULY 2 - JULY 27, 2001

    • The Rounce & Coffin Club 2000 Western Books Exhibit
    This exhibit showcases prize-winning books printed in the Western United States and representing the best in binding, composition, craftsmanship, design and printing.

2000

  • DECEMBER - FEBRUARY, 2000 

    • Strindberg The Photographer
    An exhibit of 57 photographs taken by Swedish playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) or in collaboration with him. The exhibition was curated by the Strindberg Museum in collaboration with Riksutsallninger and the Swedish Institute.
  • FEBRUARY 1 - MARCH 15, 2000

    • Imag(in)ing a Future: Women Students at UCLA 
    Photographer Carol Petersen shares her vision of UCLA women students, who envision and themselves represent the future in a series of 100 black-and-white photographs.
  • MARCH 20 - APRIL 18, 2000

    • Hans Christian Andersen: His Life and Work
    This exhibit is sponsored by the UCLA Scandinavian Section and Royal Danish Consulate, this 20 panel exhibit from the Odense City Museum in Denmark traces his life which began as a poor cobbler's son to a respected international celebrity and one of Denmark's most famous treasures. 
  • APRIL 28 - MAY 31, 2000 

    • Campbell Student Book Competition Winners
    The Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition is sponsored by the gift of the late Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Campbell, the friends of the UCLA Library, the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Library Staff Association, the UCLA Library, and other interested donors to stimulate student interest in book collecting and reading. This is an annual competition in which undergraduates and graduate students at UCLA are given the opportunity to display their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections. 
  • JUNE 1 - JUNE 5, 2000 

    • Distorted Visions 
    An Introspective on Body Image & the Female Psyche 
    Opening June 1 at 7:00pm 
    Curators: Sarah Milstein & Azadeh Ensha 
    An exhibit centered on an introspective of the female body that is a highly appropriate and pertinent choice given society's loathsome mass marketization and preoccupation with the female form. Sadly, it is these unrealistic images of women that have and continue to contribute to the growing number of girls and women who suffer from eating disorders. In fact, the
    National Institute of Mental Health estimates that over five million Americans suffer from eating disorders. 
  • JUNE 5 - JUNE 12, 2000

    • Three Inches High & Rising...Nail Art
    Curators: Anastasia Sagorsky & Lauren Blakely.
    This exhibit will photographically document the detailed and highly skilled process of creating artful fingernails. The exhibition will explore the craftsmanship, talent, and aesthetic appeal of the medium. 
  • JUNE 26 - JULY 21, 2000

    • The Rounce & Coffin Club 1999 Western Books Exhibit
    This exhibit showcases prize-winning books printed in the Western United States and representing the best in binding, composition, craftsmanship, design and printing.
  • AUGUST 7 - AUGUST 31, 2000

    • Mathematics in the 20th Century Major Problems and Advances
    This exhibit is organized by the UCLA Department of Mathematics in conjunction with the American Mathematical Society's meeting on "Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century," at UCLA August 7-12.
  • OCTOBER 9, 2000 - January 31, 2001

    • History & Celebrity: the Thelner Hoover Photographic Collection
    Sponsored by UCLA University Archives and Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of UCLA Special Collections.
    This exhibit features the work of Thelner Hoover, a professional Southern California photographer who began his career documenting the building of the UCLA campus and photographed UCLA and LA's Westside for over 50 years. Photographs in this exhibit include those of the early days of UCLA, the development of the campus, portraits of people who contributed to the the growth and prestige of the university and portraits of celebrities of LA's Westside.
1999
  • JANUARY - MARCH 
    Hidden Treasures: Libraries in the UCLA Ethnic Study Centers
    Exhibit of information about the African American Studies Library, American Indian Studies Center Library, Asian American Studies Center Reading Room & Library, and the Chicano Studies Research Center Library.
  • FEBRUARY 

    • Thelner and Louise Collection
    A special exhibit in honor of the Gold Shield. Exhibit materials included photographs of the building of the UCLA campus in the late 1920's by Thelner Hoover. 
  • APRIL 
    Banned: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
    Exhibit in honor of National Library Week.
    Armenian Genocide
    A magnetic poetry board exhibit sponsored by the Students' Arts Council.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    Touring exhibit sponsored by the student campus Christian Science organization.
  • MAY - JUNE 

    • Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen Exhibition
    A traveling exhibit celebrating the life and literature of Karen Blixen. Sponsored by the Scandinavian Section of the UCLA Germanic Languages Department, courtesy of the Danish Consulate in Los Angeles. 
  • JULY - AUGUST 

    • The Rounce & Coffin Book Club 1998 Western Books
    An exhibit of the winners of the fine printing competition for 1998.
  • JULY - SEPTEMBER 

    • America the Bountiful: Classic American Food from Antiquity to the Space Age
    A traveling exhibit from the University of California Davis on the history of food in America.
  • SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 

    • Jumping off the Banned Wagon
    An exhibition celebrating intellectual freedom and choice during 1999 National Banned Books Week. Sponsored by the American Library Association Student Chapter at UCLA. 
  • DECEMBER - FEBRUARY, 2000 

    • Strindberg The Photographer
    An exhibit of 57 photographs taken by Swedish playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) or in collaboration with him. The exhibition was curated by the Strindberg Museum in collaboration with Riksutsallninger and the Swedish Institute.
1998 1997
  • OCTOBER - DECEMBER 

    • A More Perfect Union
    Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution, a traveling exhibition organized by the American Library Association and the National Museum of American History (NMAH) of the Smithsonian Institution. 
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