Special Exhibits

• Herb Block Political Cartoons

   

  From May 5th through August 21st the Dole Institute of Politics will be featuring the Herb Block Exhibition. The exhibit features political cartoons on the environment, education, civil rights, democracy, and thirteen U.S. presidents by four time Pulitzer Prize winner cartoonist Herb Block. This exhibit is free and open to the public.

  For more information about the exhibition visit the Herb Block Foundation at http://www.herblockexhibitions.org/exhibit.

   

• Massachusetts Street: Monuments and Milestones

  An online exhibit of the Watkins Community Museum of History chronicles the history of this iconic Lawrence street.

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• The Waiting Room: Lost and Found

  We all spend time in waiting rooms. Sitting, waiting; sitting, waiting; sitting and waiting for our names to be called, waiting to pass through the next doorway to the diagnostic or treatment room, waiting for a family member to reemerge, waiting for the doctor to come out with an update…The Waiting Room Project reflects this intensely personal experience, and at the same time addresses wider, correlated scientific, cultural, and economic perspectives. It is rooted in global concerns, but is also decidedly local.

   

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• Museum Studies lecturer Sherry Williams

  Museum Studies lecturer Sherry Williams is involved with a project that has enabled a significant portion of Kansas photographer Joseph J. Pennell's life work to be freely available via the University of Kansas Libraries' digital image repository. The Pennell Collection, part of the Kansas Collection at KU's Kenneth Spencer Research Library, provides a comprehensive view of life in Junction City, Kan., at the turn of the 20th century. The collection includes more than 30,000 glass plate negatives, 6,000 of which have been digitized to allow for online access.

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