Pollak Library Exhibits Schedule
Current Exhibits
Leon Leyson (1929-2013): A Tribute
Dates: February 19, 2013 - TBD
Curators: Trish Campbell and Jane Iacovetti
Location:
Pollak Library First Floor, the open space and cases directly across from the Circulation desk
Description: a tribute to long-time Fullerton resident and Holocaust survivor, Leon Leyson. Heralded as the youngest survivor on Oskar Schindler's now famous list, Leon passed away January 12, 2013 after a long battle with lymphoma.
Earth Body: the Art of Sustainability
Dates: March 20, 2013 - May 27, 2013
Curator: Jie Tian, Librarian Pollak Library
Location: Atrium Gallery
Description: an art exhibit and reading room featuring hundreds of books on sustainability topics — from art and the humanities to science and technology will run in conjunction with a speaker series on sustainable living hosted by Cal State Fullerton (http://news.fullerton.edu/2013sp/Sustainability-Lectures-Exhibit.asp).
Upcoming Exhibits
The following exhibits are scheduled to go on display in Pollak Library.
Letting Go (working title)
Dates: July 1 - September 30, 2013 (tentatively)
Curators: Kristin Beals, Associate Professor of Psychology (CSUF) and Chris Hoff
Location: Atrium Gallery
Description: the exhibit will feature the artwork of Courtney Conlon. Conlon's work captures light, innocence, and the world as it is seen before manipulations. Conlon juxtaposes her work with the art of two five-year olds in an effort to anchor her work and diffuse knowledge and expectations.
An Orange County Portrait (working title)
Dates: October 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013
Curator: Stephanie George, Archivist, CSUF Center for Oral and Public History
Location: Atrium Gallery
"Do you see what I see?!": Experiments in Avant-Garde Cinema
Dates: January 1 - March 31, 2014
Curator: Brandon Goco (Organized by Rebecca Sheehan, Professor RTVF, CSUF)
Location: Atrium Gallery
Description: the exhibit is an assemblage of final film projects of students from the course "Experimental Cinema". The short films were made in response and in conversation with seminal works by European avant-garde filmmakers of the 1920s and 1930s and American avant-garde filmmakers of the 1940s through the 1970s.
Weird and Wonderful: Creatures of Coral and Kelp (working title)
Dates: TBD
Curator: Diane Witmer, Professor and Chair, Department of Communications (CSUF)
Location: Pollak Library First Floor, the open space and cases around the Circulation Desk
Description: the exhibit consists exclusively of Witmer's underwater photographs, including marine life from both local cool water kelp forests and warm water coral habitats.
Lee Tanner: The Jazz Image
Dates: April 1 - June 30, 2014
Curator: Benjamin Cawthra, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Oral and Public History (CSUF)
Location: Atrium Gallery
Description: the exhibit is devoted to the work of jazz photographer and pioneering curator Lee Tanner. Tanner's photographs of performers of the mid-twentieth century made a distinctive contribution to performance photography.
