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![colorful figures and fauna](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/glynn.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=6B4657A4453A026B4ECEFDCD7977C0A6)
After Order, After Disorder
Hamon Arts Library
A selection of Dylan Glynn’s paintings, works on paper, digital prints, and animated shorts.
![white on white forms with decoration](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/against.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=02A84DA1C8C5DF6B34E9B40C8562FDA5)
Against the Best Possible Sources
Hamon Arts Library
Guided by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts, Elizabeth Moran uses photography, text, sound, and other forms of recorded documentation to examine the reliability of information and how evidence is often far from evident.
![artificial process applied to wood](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/agents.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=18A1D0145A77AD87B586D14348EDA416)
Agents of Change
Hamon Arts Library
Agents of Change, works by Arthur Koch, questions about the relationships of the words "natural" and "artificial" and led me to realize that while wood is a natural material, the process I applied to wood was a process that could be considered artificial.
![Albert Outler is centered in this photograph of an observers’ audience with Pope Paul VI at the Second Vatican Council.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/outler-1964withpope.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=C3FCFEDFE0DD712934F509D3F394D930)
The Albert Cook Outler Papers
Bridwell Library
Through this exhibition, Bridwell Library is bringing Albert Outler’s intellectual legacy to the attention of a new generation of scholars and church leaders.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/whitman.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=65AC56242FA71785B0F012574F0BEAB8)
"All Goes Onward And Outward": Walt Whitman at 200
DeGolyer Library
Renowned collection Robert Harris marks the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth with this exhibit of selected treasures from his collection.
![Black and white photo of Amy Clampitt sitting on the ground](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/amyclampitt.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=13C002181516E06D9BF0799BC94E1E28)
Amy Clampitt: Her Peripatetic Life and Work
DeGolyer Library
A celebration of the life and work of poet Amy Clampitt, through her correspondence, poetry, and photographs.
![black and white image of Jodie Foster](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/andy-hanson.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=58FC68F7516A8EFD49E1475C0745EA55)
Andy Hanson: Picturing Dallas, 1960-2008
DeGolyer Library
This exhibit celebrates Andy Hanson's long career at the Dallas Times Herald, covering society, politics, the performing arts, and the major news events of the day.
![Artwork in the Hawn Gallery including photographs, a sculpture, and an image of water projected on a screen](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/aquatic.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CFCC2D20F478EB3E89DBD903DDDFDD8F)
Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination
Hamon Arts Library
This exhibition turns rivers into lines of connection. Moving and flowing in many directions, these lines form a complex network of images, ideas, sounds, and objects, evoking a symbolic hydrography in the exhibition space. Bodies of water become the conduits of the meanings.
![graphite on paper, black and white drawing of Moses](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/hornesofmoses.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=5950776E080031299A8B7F8315A493B2)
Archive of Shadows: Andrew Douglas Underwood
Hamon Arts Library
Dallas-based artist Andrew Douglas Underwood research-based artistic practice explores historic vignettes, examines the notion of perfection, and questions the possibility of objectivity.
![A compilation of items from the Archives exhibit including a hand fan, photographs, and papers.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/archives_exhibit.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=346D3A9E1062283AF65DE135FB80A8D3)
The Archives at Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library
This exhibition explores the diversity of archival records held by and hosted by Bridwell Library.
![photos of students looking at material](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/are-you-close-enough-omeka.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=66D2E5BEE0F672F3C640F7C234085A23)
Are You Close Enough?
Bywaters Special Collections
In 2013 The Year of the Library Committee put together a meta-exhibition examining the creation of the Post Chiaroscuro: Prints in Color after the Renaissance featuring objects from Bywaters Special Collections.
![A film projector and image on the screen](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/ark.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=FBDADFC26D5F56BFC522566B5C716775)
ARK: An Experimental Film
Hamon Arts Library
ARK is a cinematic installation featuring a film by Michael A. Morris made from archival 35mm film prints held in the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection.
![Painting of Mary and baby Jesus on a donkey led by Joseph by Fred Nagler.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/artcoll-nagler.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=6D4E60BF346F15EDBE8A60273B61BB73)
The Art Collection at Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library
Artwork on display throughout Bridwell Library including artifacts, framed drawings, prints, and paintings, sculptures, fine furnishings and decorative arts, and objects for religious use.
![figure dressed in dress clothes](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/artcaricature.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=7CE0269962C6DBE9F8EE3A5A313D9BB7)
Art of the Caricature
Hamon Arts Library
Thomas Gibson Bowles desire was to establish Vanity Fair as a periodical defining the social and cultural life of London in Victorian England.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/fossils-to-film.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=B33367427B7BA7143DECAE9153F1810D)
Best of the DeGolyer: Items Featured in 'Fossils to Film'
DeGolyer Library
This exhibit features DeGolyer Library items included in the Meadows Museum's 2021 exhibit, Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU's Collections.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/black-lives.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CD8CE6BBAE3B3D856BCD06BF80EA066B)
Black Lives, Black Letters: Primary Sources in African American History and Literature
DeGolyer Library
Highlights from DeGolyer Library's collections documenting aspects of the Black experience in America, from the colonial period to the present.
![black and white print of St. Jerome and a lion](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/durerjeromeinstudy.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=2486A87656B23CAF4A22201B1BA09EF0)
Books and Prints by Albrecht Dürer
Bridwell Library
1498 Apocalypse, the Large Passion, and the Small Passion, and works from the last decade of Durer's life. His works reflect his interests in artistic theory and the Protestant Reformation.
![Jewish religious book open to the Evening Service. The left page is in English and the right page is in Hebrew.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/30101-jewish-tradition.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CA3E695FD780D46F53BF7BA78D345459)
Books in the Jewish Tradition
Bridwell Library
An expression of Jewish religious traditions through printed books central to their faith, but had to overcome opposition from many quarters.
![12 inch tall alabaster figures from ancient Egypt](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/fossils-to-film-canopic.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=26A2B6C4CEA5C769E20E6AC4434EA19E)
Bridwell Library Special Collections: Items Featured in "Fossils to Film"
Bridwell Library
An exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Meadows Museum with works from SMU Libraries, departments, and the art collection.
![A map of Lake Chautauqua.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/chautauqua.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=DC0AE6E667553FBA0449C6C8FA48762C)
Bygone Summers: Images of Chautauqua
Bridwell Library
This exhibition presents photographs of Chautauqua Lake, the Chautauqua Institution, and Institution leaders taken during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
![textured black circle artwork](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/cowan.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=2496C52C629D178E00BB52A475213B13)
Camilla Cowan: Paintings and Prints
Hamon Arts Library
This show featured Camilla Cowan's prints and paintings, many inspired by molas and other folk art.
![Woodcut of the Baptism of Jesus and a banner with the Latin inscription “Hic est filius meus dilectus in quo mihi complacui” from Matthew 3:1.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/catechisms.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=921487F8EFD033683F6290CE4496CD11)
Catechisms
Bridwell Library
Manuals of Christian doctrine, catechisms are often organized in the form of questions with accompanying answers to be learned and memorized.
![different colors of blue in a landscape](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/blue.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=537F69CB2D97FDD354FE467A9AA43988)
Christine Sanford: Devotion to Blue
Hamon Arts Library
Sanford's interest in painting is in the experimentation of endless nuances of color combination possibilities, "color is feeling, color has emotional resonance."
![red and blue fabric against a yellow wall](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/chromarray.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=B8401197232F6139F90B27EBD6880894)
Chromarray
Hamon Arts Library
Artwork featured from Constance Lowe’s series Garden City (Air to Ground), FabCom and Chromarray that examines the intersection between natural and human-constructed environments.
![black and white artwork in a gallery setting](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/cleardeepdark.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=5E8CBFD9A0E3019276D540FB6F451944)
Clear, Deep, Dark
Hamon Arts Library
Clear, Deep, Dark features new works by Julie Morel that examines the intersections between text and visual imagery.
![photo of two books](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/collective-practice.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=FFD156CBA16D867ABD2C56035A876BF2)
Collective Practice
Hamon Arts Library
Collective Practice: Community Building Through Zines presents works by Puro Chingón Collective, with members James Huizar, Claudia Zapata and Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi.
![Colorful Dance of Death procession of skeletons with religious and royal men.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/danceofdeath-holbein.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=076B6D47A722CA404D5E5B472A925DF0)
The Dance of Death
Bridwell Library
This exhibition features images of the Dance of Death popularized in print by Hans Holbein the Younger and his inspirations and future influence.
![Artwork featuring mountains and a stream](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/dreyer2.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=BF07586321579341C36032D24DAE7646)
David Dreyer: Southwestern Landscapes
Hamon Arts Library
Paintings and works on paper by David Dreyer, technical advisor and adjunct professor in SMU’s Division of Studio Art.
![Decoding: Hidden Traces in Contemporary Art](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/decoding-online-exhibits.png?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=4C948E276B315CFE519EC6DEF7552239)
Decoding: Hidden Traces in Contemporary Art
Hamon Arts Library
A selection of drawings from the University Art Collection curated and programmed by the Fall 2024 Art Gallery Practicum students.
![landscape with blue color and trees](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/judd_05_099_opt.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=85A4D4AD6704D891C54D9ADE0DAEFE1F)
DeForrest Judd–Sketches of Texas Regions: Big Bend, Caddo Lake, Gulf Coast
Bywaters Special Collections
Judd’s work reflects his study of nature: mountains, lakes, rocks, flowers, cactus, animals, and scenes of everyday life.
![Pocket-sized Passion reflection book with woodcut of Jesus on the cross on the left page and the text for Station XVI on the right page.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/devotional-printing.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=6EDF21E04CFD476915CDB06DA07CDEEB)
Devotional Printing in France
Bridwell Library
French personal devotionals from 17th–19th centuries that showcase themes throughout religious texts over time and across languages and borders.
![religious figure surrounded by decoration](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/mexican-imprints.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=A82A43535D4F4EFF7FD56DECFE087492)
Dios y Su Pueblo: 250 Years of Mexican Religious Imprints
Bridwell Library
Examples in inventory of the nearly 400 Mexican religious imprints owned by Bridwell Library.
![photograph on a sunny day of ruins](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/chaco.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=61015C1F8372A50928E8834068EC9A6B)
Dis-Reality of the Southwest
Hamon Arts Library
Six photographic collages by Jeffrey Junkin, MFA candidate in photography.
![Red star badge from Southern Methodist University's 1911 "Grand Jubilee Rally".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/first-decade-smu.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=DA91F7A1CA598D3114CFD7442793065F)
Documents from the First Decade of Southern Methodist University
Bridwell Library
Documents produced between 1911 and 1920 which offer insights into the development of the university and the School of Theology.
![sketched trees and mountains in nature colors](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/buck-peak.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=8084D2B99F020ECABBC9B81FBE71CBBA)
Drawn from Nature: Scott Winterrowd
Hamon Arts Library
Exhibited in 2012, Dallas artist and museum educator Scott Winterrowd had sketched a wide variety of the landscapes in the American West, including California, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Big Bend region of Texas, working primarily in watercolor.
![John Wesley's Christian Library](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/early-methodists-wesley-library.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=479C16CC3591223FABC034C94B96E9FD)
Early Methodists and Their Books
Bridwell Library
Books from the first century of the Methodism (c. 1739–1839). Included are volumes owned by the Wesley brothers, ministers’ manuscripts, and inscribed texts.
![Pen sketch and autograph of Littleton Fowler.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/texas-meth.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=9773614B6AEABE4D4F0BE7AFE9871A55)
Early Texas Methodism, 1815–1860
Bridwell Library
This exhibition presents items that document the Methodist movement during its formative years in Texas.
![Open Armenian Gospels featuring bird-shaped initials.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/8-centuries.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=A490D62F53001B4C11EDCEB0EDB79873)
Eight Centuries of the Bible in Translation
Bridwell Library
Bibles from the 13th to the 20th centuries that represent Bible translation into 55 different languages from five continents.
![richly illustrated manuscript with red and blue decoration](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/prothrobibles-b-108.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=01D227A08D21D688FB781AC8E686496A)
Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
Bridwell Library
Bibles from the collection of Elizabeth Perkins Prothro, who donated nearly five hundred volumes in more than fifty languages to Bridwell Library in 1996.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/woman-reading.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=C278FE873E154A806DADB377FE978D10)
Engaged With Books
DeGolyer Library
A celebration of reading and the written word by showcasing photographs of people holding books and other reading material.
![Open book with a prayer in French with ornamental borders and floral decorations engraved by Pierre Moreau.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/engraved-throughout.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0B1C121EC7F1F5A9C88590F4257FA062)
Engraved Throughout
Bridwell Library
Religious works printed entirely with copperplates. Created in the 17th and 18th centuries, they were used for instruction, documentation, worship, and devotion.
![photographs of nature](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/evans-pond.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D2F84D4B35BF3F569E2132872CBC96B6)
Evans Pond, by Deborah Garwood
Hamon Arts Library
Deborah Garwood is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work explores the interdependence of nature and culture.
![Adam Pendleton Anthology, 5th ed.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/adam-pendleton-anthology-5-ed.jpg?h=490&iar=0&w=730&hash=9A5B7680C72C050B8CCC48EEA1A63BBF)
Experiences Embodied and Remembered
Bridwell Library
Features works by Ifeanyi Anene, Tauba Auerbach, Rick Myers, Adam Pendleton, Maria Veronica San Martin, Haein Song, Shirley Ann Whitaker, and Sam Winston.
![Carrie Marcus](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/carriemarcus.jpg?h=479&iar=0&w=720&hash=5E5ADAC258CB80BA74B8214A49405EC1)
An Eye for Elegance
DeGolyer Library
Learn about the life and legacy of Carrie Marcus Neiman, cofounder of Neiman Marcus, and other notable women who shaped the legendary fashion and retail destination.
![A printed membership manuscript. The left page has text and the right page has a print of a man kneeling with an angel nearby.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/faithdevotion-brb0600a.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=5C5E8E627D271ADA5B8FB2694F6A3805)
Faith and Devotion in Mexico
Bridwell Library
Catholic devotional beliefs and practices in Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries as documented in images, novenas, sacred poetry, and historical accounts.
![Illuminated manuscript with gold title text "The Song of Songs which is Solomon's" on the left page. The right page begins the text of Song of Songs with decorated initials. Illustrations surround the text.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/50women-ashendene.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D282284113E4F55C0D5A20391A6C66DD)
Fifty Women
Bridwell Library
More than fifty books from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century that were written, illustrated, produced, owned, or inspired by women.
![Photograph of Williams, Lyles, Hawkins, Elliott, and Riley, the first five African American graduates from SMU.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/firstafam.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=11F2AA9F08FA7D2E001A66EFE356C74D)
The First African American Graduates of Perkins School of Theology
Bridwell Library
The accomplishments of Williams, Lyles, Hawkins, Elliott, and Riley who were the first African Americans to graduate from Perkins School of Theology and SMU in 1955.
![German Bible with colorful woodcuts on the top of the pages. The left image shows Moses leading the Israelites and the right image depicts manna from Heaven.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/firstfourcenturies-koberger.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=980776E917279997A668BA9525458DDB)
The First Four Centuries of Printed Bible Illustration
Bridwell Library
Bibles that display the historical context, artistic development, and cultural impact of the use of illustration in printed editions of the scriptures.
![Open miniature Bible with introduction "To the Reader And as thy kindness thou extend'st to me, At any time I'll do as much for thee. Thine J. Taylor." and paraphrased "Genesis. Jehovah here of nothing, all things makes, And man before all things his God forsakes. Yet".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/childrens-books.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=37BD6BBF6D2763D06563C0430A076922)
Four Centuries of Religious Books for Children
Bridwell Library
This exhibition explores religious books specifically written for children that were printed in Europe and America between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century.
![Engraving of Francis Asbury.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/asbury_engraving.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=DDFA6E7FAB1C1EA600DCEB0D745858BC)
Francis Asbury (1745–1816)
Bridwell Library
This exhibition honors the memory of Bishop Francis Asbury by presenting fifteen documents and publications that detail Asbury’s ministry.
![man in a colorful outfit standing by a tree](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/jones-film-2.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=2A317985B8CB20EC0FEA294337568A45)
The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection
Jones Film Collection, Hamon Arts Library
The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at SMU Libraries supports the communities of the Meadows School of the Arts, the University, and global moving image preservation and research.
![dark leather binding with texture](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer1-etherington.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=5EC06E1BF0C8F48DFCA5CD9F92C13109)
The First Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 1997
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Daniel Berkeley Updike’s The Book of Common Prayer.
![Leather, blue binding of Ulysses](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer2-levy-new2.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=FFB1DC2C3997E6D25C727665A81C7A41)
The Second Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2000
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for James Joyce’s Ulysses.
![Decorative binding with inlaid design of a rope surrounded by a border with "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" repeating.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer3-kamph.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=650D5B34A0C41711048CE8EC91AF4694)
The Third Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2003
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
![decorative binding in green and blue](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer4-tapley-new.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=BF1DB4A03EDB526E427D53B9323F80D6)
The Fourth Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2006
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones.
![Decorative binding with water animals displayed over strata and a man in a canoe on a river. Spine has gold text "Good-bye to a River Graves".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer5-spitler.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=22CF772B08ADD1F8821079E2FD162829)
The Fifth Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2009
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for John Graves’ Goodbye to a River.
![A book bound in black with white triangles in the shape of a crown. "De imitatione Christi" is engraved on the spine.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer6-lawrence.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=49E0E1D7871453E40EABD7229F6DFDB7)
The Sixth Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2012
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for The Imitation of Christ.
![Cover of a brown book with cats curled up sleeping on the front and back. Gold writing on the spine "Restoration of Leather Binding Bernard Middleton".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer7-spitler.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=1A713A9C65F836D02B76BF25834155E0)
The Seventh Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2015
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Bernard C. Middleton’s The Restoration of Leather Bindings.
![Decorative binding made of various wooden panels. The center of the covers has mother of pearl pinned to it surrounded by a gold pentagon. Spine has title "Apocrypha".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/degolyer8-jrc.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=066418BD47AF61FAE61035DEA3FAA30C)
The Eighth Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2018
Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library's bookbinding competition for Doves Press Apocrypha, volume IV.
![Monique Lallier colorful book binding](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/lallier.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=DAACC5BDEEA67448E86CF9763F09A631)
The Ninth Helen Warren DeGolyer Competition, 2021
Bridwell Library
Bookbinders were invited to submit designs to bind Bridwell Library’s copy of Five Poems by Toni Morrison with silhouettes by Kara Walker.
![Open Wycliffite New Testament with annotations and marginal markings.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/heresy-error-b-281.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=E8AE4B88FAD721CB50D337E7D5687536)
Heresy and Error: The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800
Bridwell Library
Books and broadsides prohibited by the Catholic Church, indexes of prohibited books or expurgations, and works written in defense of ecclesiastical censorship.
![excerpt from a medieval music manuscript](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/underwood/underwood-hidden-in-plain-sight-edited-720x480.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=9A308B61BA9C1C377638EB046159AF56)
Hidden in Plain Sight
UNDERWOOD LAW LIBRARY
Highlights books from the Underwood Law Library’s McKnight Antiquarian Book Collection that feature medieval and other manuscript fragments recycled as bookbinding covers, spine support, or endpapers.
![black and white photograph of theater](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/gala.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=3FB2BB81CC1920A26E1205E08A4628E9)
Hidden Treasures
Bywaters Special Collections
Hidden Treasures of the Mary McCord/Edyth Renshaw Collection on the Performing Arts drew from the extensive collection of significant holdings in the history of theatre, film, music and dance.
![book opening to rare 15th century red and blue illustrated text](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/highlights-bibles-06117.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=374C12BD4FE81EFF70AAC9CC12BDD400)
Highlights from Bridwell Library Special Collections: Bibles
Bridwell Library
Highlights from the core collection of the Bible at Bridwell Library. Included are Bibles from the Prothro and Harrison collections.
![Verses 1-9 of Psalm 104. Above the text of the Psalms, King David is shown covering his head and then transitions to landscapes as described in the text.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/highlights-prayer-brb0193a_b.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=7767619339DA93F012C2224A63995299)
Highlights from Bridwell Library Special Collections: Nineteenth-Century Prayer Books
Bridwell Library
19th century prayer books with handsome or innovative presentations. Included are books with decorative typography, binding, and illustration.
![An open liturgical book, Missal, with text in Latin and musical notations. The pages have decoration including borders and initials.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/highlights-publicworship-b-212.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=EBC8E7E8842528FDC6E6FA38081F3C70)
Highlights from Bridwell Library Special Collections: Public Worship and Private Devotion
Bridwell Library
Books for public worship and private devotion that spans eight centuries. The spiritual functions were enhanced by decorations.
![An open Spanish Bible, on the left page is a woodcut of St. Paul at his desk. The right page begins the text from Romans.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/highlights-reformation-bra0358.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=E806B7036071DB35535028C6A772A990)
Highlights from Bridwell Library Special Collections: The Reformation
Bridwell Library
Early Reformation works of Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Jean Calvin, other sixteenth-century reformers, and Counter-Reformation authors.
![Open book with the Latin text of Saint Augustine's Summa theologicae with colorful handwritten initials.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/highlights-theology-06670.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0987FC483007E2D687B7D6EDF4D4F39D)
Highlights from Bridwell Library Special Collections: Theology and Church History
Bridwell Library
Works by St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Documents about Christian instruction, canon law, hagiography, and church administration.
![Letter from John Wesley and Thomas Coke to John Stretton. The left half of the page shows address information and remnants of a seal.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/highlights-wesleyana-jwletter.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=C1C601C85974C19FF0AA8794BC591B5F)
Highlights from Bridwell Library Special Collections: Wesleyana and Methodistica
Bridwell Library
Books, manuscripts, and archives that have direct historical connections to the founders of Methodism.
![An open medical textbook by Juan de Valverde. There is a table in Latin and a skeleton standing up and examining a skull.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/sellers-brc0006.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0B6AAFF5DBDEFFDFE898F85FFD4AA27A)
Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
Bridwell Library
Works from fields of early medicine and science, natural history, religious ceremony and private devotion, and nineteenth-century English and American literature.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/highway-pacific.jpg?h=479&iar=0&w=720&hash=8DC372E63C730BD0F475E3CD29A89BFF)
"A Highway to the Pacific": Building the Transcontinental Railroad
DeGolyer Library
The story of the transcontinental railroad: a great technological achievement, subject of intense political debate, and critical to the long-term development of the American west.
![Several cover images of Sherlock Holmes in different languages](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/ihearofsherlockeverywhere.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=1C26056DA7D2C073D1D371D43746DA3A)
"I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere": Collecting the Multilingual Cannon
DeGolyer Library
The enduring appeal of fiction's greatest detective is explored through selections from DeGolyer Library's Donald J. Hobbs Collection, which contains more than 8,000 volumes and translations of the Sherlock Holmes canon in 108 languages.
![arms and eyes reflecting in a mirror](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/illusion2.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=DCAA31DE295B73F2A68BDEBC7412AAFD)
Illusion of Being: Photographic Works
Hamon Arts Library
The Illusion of Being is a three-person exhibition of photographic works by DFW based artists Lynné Bowman Cravens, Ross Faircloth, and Ashley Whitt. Each artist utilizes lens-based media to investigate notions of reality as perceived by the self.
![A French meditation book open to the seventh station with a woodcut of Veronica wiping Jesus' face with an imprint of his face on the cloth.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/illustrated-suites-brb0154.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=A4ADEFF695C9A119152BED6D8173AAFD)
Illustrated Suites, Sequences, and Sets
Bridwell Library
Printed illustrations which were intentionally created as coherent series of images: suites of engravings, illustrated sequences, and sets of prints.
![A Latin copy of the Imitatio Christi with handwritten initials where the initial Q has been illuminated with gold leaf and vegetal decoration.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/imitationofchrist.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=2E888317D387751866DD680E669FD11C)
The Imitation of Christ Through Six Centuries
Bridwell Library
Copies of the Imitatio Christi from c. 1472 to 1905. Vernacular translations into English, German, French, Italian, Arabic, and Croatian, and fine modern editions.
![three framed colorful prints and table](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/incidents.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D25B7CE8C0F74967A2A99946729FC9C1)
Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes:1976-2020
Hamon Arts Library
Artist Michael Corris explores art’s role in the process of a city’s identity formation, in particular his relationship to Dallas, Texas and Venice, Italy.
![A collection of books including concertina-style](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/information-object.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=2B39B5295BD63986682921D5372D3934)
Information Object: Late 20th and Early 21st Century Artists' Books
Hamon Arts Library
Artists have used the book as medium for exposing their images and concepts, which in turn challenge the form of the book as an information package and loops back to extend the idea of a book qua book.
![Dr. Richard P. Heitzenrater in Bridwell Library examining manuscript volumes of John Wesley’s diaries.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/heitzenrater.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0CAB084F70CEE0AEBC94B3E1EB16D4E9)
In honorem: Dr. Richard P. Heitzenrater
Bridwell Library
Works written by Dr. Heitzenrater paired with items from Bridwell Library Special Collections, that highlight the long-term relationship between researcher and library.
![An open Latin song book, with musical notation, decorated borders, and an illuminated image of King David introducing the first psalm.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/manuscripts-brms111.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=FB843F4BFBFCD769CBAE170D66979EB4)
Inscribed Illuminations and Inspirations: Manuscripts at Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library
Manuscripts representing the Christian, Judaic, and Islamic traditions, between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries in multiple continents.
![photo of a woman with colorful earrings and dark hair](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/belonging.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=FA849F75193DF5DDC70CFAE261D6A1A9)
In Search of Belonging
Hamon Arts Library
Building on the research of the PRIDE@SMU capstone project, In Search of Belonging explores stories of LGBTQ+ student organizing -- struggles for equality and recognition -- through oral history and archival documents.
![An open book of a German vernacular translation of Epistles and Gospels designated for church days with a woodcut of Jesus.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/invention-discovery-06285.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0BECF3EC4494FA82420E5A76B4C9123C)
Invention and Discovery: Printed Books from Fifteenth-Century Europe
Bridwell Library
Books and broadsides printed between c. 1455 and 1500 and their discovery of the power and potential of Gutenberg's invention.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/robinson.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=E72510F3EE465C2BA0D365CCD38FF1CC)
Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a Pivotal Era, 1947-1957
DeGolyer Library
This exhibit explores a "golden age" in baseball, when the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants dominated, led by some of the most memorable players and managers of all time.
![Portrait of Calvin with micrographic text of the first book of Ecclesiastes.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/calvin.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=237E8C41D16A23D06CEF788BCE703031)
Jean Calvin (1509—1564): A Quincentenary Exhibition
Bridwell Library
The sixteenth-century theologian and reformer Jean Calvin exerted immense influence on the character and practice of Western Christianity.
![Exhibit poster](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/joycooking.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=7DF2CFF018FC535482A08431D440D191)
The Joy of Cooking
DeGolyer Library
Explore our collection of historic cookbooks, which served as a storehouse of recipes, as well as a sign of technological, sociological, cultural, and economic changes.
![Photograph of Kate Warnick standing by her portrait with Rabbi Olan, Bishop Slater, and Dean Quillian.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/katewarnickawards.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=99D2D903215314B3463DEE19999B8AB3)
The Kate Warnick Awards
Bridwell Library
This annual competition encourages the publication of local church histories from the eight Annual Conferences within Texas United Methodist Historical Society.
![Snippet of King James Bible from 1611 displaying Psalm 23 with decorated initials at the beginning of the psalms.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/kingjamesbible.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=E67789B59027413C62F3D0FEB5561641)
The King James Bible of 1611
Bridwell Library
This exhibition is evidence of the zeal with which the English King James Bible from 1611 translation was produced, printed, marketed, read, and cherished.
![A figure with wings and flowers in front of a field](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/ksdwtsunamir720x480.png?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=32C0EF69148815DCB6BF752C15CE87E3)
Lead Stealing the Danse Macabre
Bridwell Library
Changing roles and identities in the modern dance of death.
![Various objects in a gray field](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/city-by-the-sea.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=B5D7CA76A55DBBD2BBF2E9A48A43FDBA)
Leonard Stokes
Hamon Arts Library
An invitation to viewers to eavesdrop on the conversations between and among the archival digital prints and their paper collage ancestors.
![dinner table setting with banner](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/kantor.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=30B391457CBD2F8336892F4769952AEB)
Lili Kantor: There was a Forest
Hamon Arts Library
The photographs in this series document the parallel stories of the lives and rituals of the disappearing population of Jews still living in small enclaves in Eastern Europe.
![red and blue abstract painting](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/satellite.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=A9C90C117020F19F77232E4A2CD187DB)
Lorraine Tady: Paintings & Drawings
Hamon Arts Library
The painting process is described as diagramming, mapping, plan/elevation, cross-section, translation/re-translation inquiry (or subverting the clarity these systematic intentions may imply).
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/love-notes.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D2B688B0E5AC9B02816E8E38312CC32C)
Love Notes
DeGolyer Library
In honor of Valentine's Day, DeGolyer Library put together a sampling of romantic stories, cards, and love letters from the past.
![A polychrome printed mandala designed by Joseph D. Quillian, Jr. around 1970.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/mandalas.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=70B670E2901CB2436C7E1BEC1F64DC27)
Mandalas: Dean Joseph Quillian
Bridwell Library
Examples of Dean Joseph D. Quillian’s mandala drawings dating from the 1940s to the 1970s.
![An open Islamic prayer book, introduced by a gilded decorative panel with an arch-shaped ornament above. Part of the pointed envelope flap binding is visible.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/manuscriptislamic-brms62.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=BEA6A6BC50C08177AF8E62040EF625A2)
Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition
Bridwell Library
Manuscripts from the 16th-19th centuries including copies of the Quran and later collections of prayers that long have been central to the religious lives of Muslims.
![notebooks with drawings in black and neutrals](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/williams-2.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=063D4AA68FF403FF2B428C694EB75E1D)
Mark Williams: Drawings
Hamon Arts Library
Williams’ small drawings and studio sketchbooks illuminate his working process of construction and variation of color, shape and line in a simple and intimate manner.
![An illustrated German Bible open to Genesis with a hand colored exhibited woodcut of God creating Eve from Adam’s rib encircled by other scenes from Genesis.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/luther-06171.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=35A3AC743C1D5F8A63E52B5B2BBD99A5)
Martin Luther in the Age of Print
Bridwell Library
An introduction to Martin Luther and his printed works. Included are polemics and treatises, sermons and commentaries, Bible translations, and catechisms.
![Mexican altar scene](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/altar-scene.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=C9D3CA9E6BCD0C5F7170F844BF594887)
Mexico: Stanley Marcus Collection
Hamon Arts Library
In celebration of the Mexican centennial in 2010, an exhibition of historic books and portfolios from Mexico, part of the Stanley Marcus Collection at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.
![drawing and a statue neutral colors](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/okeefe.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=53FCBB701BA446A0766F57FE50AC03D3)
Michael O'Keefe
Hamon Arts Library
On view in 2005 were 29 individual works by sculptor Michael O’Keefe. These works included 22 small-scale drawings and seven sculptures.
![An open Hawaiian Bible which is three bound volumes so it is extraordinarily thick.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/missionary-presses.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=910F69E052033FEE1C6CCB154EC8D344)
Missionary Presses
Bridwell Library
Bibles and other religious texts in indigenous languages published by missionary presses in the nineteenth century.
![An open Greek book. The left page of text narrows as it goes down the page. The right page has a floral top border and decorated initial.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/greek-06831.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CE0CA859731123E6389BF4BA1EE22C08)
Monuments of Early Greek Printing
Bridwell Library
Literature, educational texts, and early New Testaments in Greek that highlight the influence of the Greek language on modern literature and culture.
![shape and line in purple and brown tones](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/brown.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CEB6666DA682B198D383DAAD1856B335)
Nancy Brown Mixed Media on Paper
Hamon Arts Library
Highly decorative arrangements of shapes embedded with unexpected motifs that are in reference to an enigmatic story continuously changing as it unfolds.
![blue and yellow painting with figures](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/beachum-1.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=A9D3B95B673B6CB6C6EADFF7E972DE02)
Narrative as Reality: A World Reimagined
Hamon Arts Library
A glimpse into the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family Collection beholds an artistic world of hope, Black joy, reality, and aspiration.
![blue, black, gray & white shapes](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/octaviano-rangel.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=42CF49AA02979F045BD497C9F619EDC0)
Octaviano Rangel
Hamon Arts Library
This exhibition of recent work by Dallas and Monterrey-based artist, Octaviano Rangel is inspired by Franz Kakfa’s Metamorphosis.
![relief sculpture with artist](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/medellin-carving-for-online.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=F50A2F93D084598752587788CC414243)
Octavio Medellin: Maya Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938
Bywaters Special Collections
"A person's art or an artist's work should come from within themselves and of themselves–not be a copy of even their own heritage." Octavio Medellin
![Colorful art hanging on a white wall](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/on-n-on.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=7879638151A02A0EA67FC2303ADCEB52)
On-N-On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia E. Butler
Hamon Arts Library
This exhibition showcases Hamon Arts Library holdings related to Octavia Butler’s writing alongside a mixed media installation by Dallas artist Ciara Elle Bryant pertaining to identity, bibliography, and virtuality.
![An open Greek book printed by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer with decorated and handwritten initials.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/schoeffer-06236.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=C10E0C136CD883E378E21F9053BC5D4F)
Peter Schoeffer: Printer of Mainz
Bridwell Library
Schoeffer’s works from his collaborations with Gutenberg and Fust to his later works including theological works and the Great Law Books.
![black and white photograph of two women & bananas](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/women-jamaica.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=4D1DBB3B5F2EC0E1DEB03D6CC85BE8AB)
Photographs from DeGolyer Library
Hamon Arts Library
Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of The Society for Photographic Education in Dallas, this exhibition featured highlights from the collection of more than 500,000 photographs at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.
![colorful lines and shapes](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/piecing-together.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=BAE5F1DA62590957FF99DA90A6AB3C0C)
Piecing It Together
Hamon Arts Library
A selection of abstract paintings and drawings by Danielle Kimzey, Mary Laube, and Christopher Reno. These artists explore the private world of the ‘home’ and seek to demystify this insular, domestic space.
![An open religious book showing a portrait of Reverend William Ames alongside the title page for "The Marrow of Sacred Divinity".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/thepietists.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=9D4D8DE3B4E5A7F28580A3A1D81B8E4B)
The Pietists
Bridwell Library
Works written between the late 17th–early 19th centuries by precursors to and leaders of the Pietist movement in The Netherlands, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.
![rendition of an organ in brown](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/organ.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CA4645AC645F0B83D5B1CE8387F2D6B0)
Pipes on Paper
Hamon Arts Library
This exhibition presents a selection of books on this grand and artful instrument, the organ, from the James L. Wallmann Collection.
![piles of clothing of all colors](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/reclamation.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=506ECBFC62DEC2533EA32FF8514DB76C)
R3clamation: Routes and Roots
Hamon Arts Library
Basil Kincaid’s R3clamation: Routes and Roots is the third iteration of the artist’s Reclamation Project and is, among other things, an intimate examination of his hometown of St. Louis.
![An open Latin book with an engraving of a mirror reflecting light from the sun on the left page.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/emblem-brb0081.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0C38DE3C854737A4A377F93409AAEDE3)
Religious Emblem Books
Bridwell Library
Meditations, catechisms, calendars, and histories made with the emblem book’s interplay of image, narrative, and couplet to convey Christian doctrine and moral lessons.
![Photograph of Clotilde and Alfredo Nanez at grave marker for Reverend Alejo Hernandez.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/nanez.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=421DC9F8F63D6C1E87D609D1DE2571D0)
Remembering Alfredo Náñez y Clotilde Falcón de Náñez
Bridwell Library
This exhibition honors the memory of Alfredo Náñez and Clotilde Falcón de Náñez in Methodist history.
![vintage black and white scene of a sculptor's studio](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/sculptor.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=24975A5DB1594A3A1F5FC753848521D8)
Renaissance Technology in Print
Hamon Arts Library
Through a seminar in Renaissance Technology for the Art History graduate students in the Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture (RASC/a) program, the exhibition is a collaboration of ideas and knowledge through the advancement of print and book production
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/1884.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D0B0F803E2733640CB0019FE779D1C13)
“Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion”: James G. Blaine, Grover Cleveland, and the Election of 1884
DeGolyer Library
This exhibit explores the 1884 Presidential election, one of the "dirtiest" campaigns in American history. Now largely forgotten, the campaign issues and scandals will sound familiar to contemporary politics.
![Open illuminated Hebrew medical book with decorative panels on both pages.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/science-religion-brms22.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=3144387CE016EE0D2058A4CB9BE3266B)
Science and Religion
Bridwell Library
Books that show the relationships between science and religion ranging from cooperation to conflict to reconciliation.
![stamped and addressed postcard with writing dated August 23rd 1908](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/send-me-a-postcard.jpg?h=500&iar=0&w=780&hash=131C8D000C0443A266C666F106D580C2)
Send Me a Postcard: Women on the Road Across 19th-20th Century America
DeGolyer Library
This exhibits highlights women’s voices and their stories across America’s roadways, as they sought education, adventure, and freedom in the 19th and 20th century.
![black and white photograph of two people](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/farmer.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=77997AEBCB4CA9F81F8E3D554DF8B57B)
Shaped by Water
Hamon Arts Library
Large format black & white landscape photographs range from grand views in the American West to quiet, intimate scenes along streams in the Texas Hill Country.
![Nine books arranged in size order showing the standard book sizes of the fifteenth century.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/shapeofcontent.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=A58F0C18049B2CF5351EAA7335FFE72F)
The Shape of Content in Christian Books, Broadsides, and Prints
Bridwell Library
Christian texts that brought new meaning and enhanced understanding to their readers through varieties of shapes, sizes, and configurations.
![beaded flowered embroidered binding](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/embroidered.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=945A64306B655CF6997D4037564E72C6)
Six Centuries of Master Bookbinding at Bridwell Library
Bridwell Library
These bindings exemplify the important stylistic developments of European and North American bookbinding from the late Middle Ages to the present day.
![a video of water captured in a still image](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/sounding.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=DB4DDD6BBDCE7F06754C57D283ACE81E)
"Sounding" by Allyson Packer
Hamon Arts Library
Sounding is a site-specific, interactive installation with looping video, text-based instructions, and subtle interventions into the architecture and resources of Hamon Arts Library.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/state-fair.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D13006F6397C7D03FD2A65A012FB07F2)
The State Fair of Texas
DeGolyer Library
To celebrate the 130th anniversary of The State Fair of Texas, this exhibit highlights Dallas photographer Lynn Lennon an her images of the fair over 10 years.
![An open liturgical book with text in Latin and musical notations. The pages have decoration including borders and initials.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/summer-musical.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=3B1E9C1C8F83C73476B0F3314CEB7499)
Summer Musical Celebration: Honoring the Organ Historical Society Convention and the Hymn Society Conference
Bridwell Library
Manuscripts and rare books produced between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries that celebrated two musical organizations meeting in Dallas in 2019.
![blue, black. and white shapes on red orange background](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/susanbarnett.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=CEFBC582597EE0C279E510DA082056A9)
Susan Barnett: Thought Patterns
Hamon Arts Library
Susan Barnett works originated with paintings based upon a specialized type of Latin Square popularized by the Sudoku puzzle.
![Open book with text of a poem in a zig-zag pattern and a black and white linear abstract illustration.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/symbiosis-32364.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=E5CC3E2C419CB2A7908957FB8FF1A723)
Symbiosis of Script, Font, and Form
Bridwell Library
Books in which artists or circles of collaborators have integrated corporeal elements of the book form into the literature in sensitive and sometimes astounding ways.
![A partially opened Torah scroll with text in Hebrew.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/harrison-chinese-torah-scroll.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=ED58944D4C815CBDEC839674D12750C2)
The Thomas J. Harrison Bible Collection
Bridwell Library
Bibles that include a 17th century Chinese Torah scroll, medieval manuscripts, incunabula, translations around the world, and modern fine press editions.
![Bishop W T Handy preaching at a pulpit in a church.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/3bishops-bishop-handy-preaching.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=2F456501889B7BC9D2DA56C284426D56)
Three African American Bishops of the United Methodist Church
Bridwell Library
Personal papers of three African American United Methodist bishops: Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., William Talbot Handy, Jr., and Rhymes H. Moncure, Jr.
![Hawn Gallery with paper pulp paintings displayed on the walls](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/tino.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=60DEAE842E6FFF867384F84E584CAE3F)
Tino Ward: Phosphenes
Hamon Arts Library
Tino Ward’s suite of paper pulp paintings depicts symbols from anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger’s catalog of proto-linguistic signs found in ancient cave paintings, known as “phosphenes.”
![promotional poster for Torn Apart exhibition](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/tornapart-horizontal-poster.png?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=ABA715530A8C9E4E1DD5F58EC7AFE75D)
Torn Apart: Punk + New Wave Graphics, Fashion & Culture, 1976-1986
Hamon Arts Library
This exhibit brings together two notable collections of posters, flyers, clothing, and ephemera from this highly influential era of pivotal cultural shift in Britain and the United States.
![Wooden sculpture made of overlapping crosses on grey paper. On the left, green paper with text "not farce but madness from the start the roots of tragedy embedded in the barely human ready to bring us down jerome rothenberg".](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/brf0351-iantyson-sculpture.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=09A6ED69D1C124966B26BD464D8B2F25)
A Tribute to Ian Tyson (1933–2021)
Bridwell Library
Works from British artist Ian Tyson’s (1933—2021) decades-long career.
![architect's rendering of the Underwood Law Library building](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/underwood/underwood-50-year-720x480.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=9FAD8D05CA5FAC53D2F99D62A2816DAF)
Underwood Law Library: Celebrating 50 Years, 1971-2021
UNDERWOOD LAW LIBRARY
Historical photographs, architectural designs, and other documents related to the planning, funding, and construction of Underwood Law Library.
![Photograph of the North Texas Annual Conferences delegates to the Uniting Conference, 1968.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/uniting-conference-1968.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=41274C4D396C2057B98E69ACCC5DB746)
The Uniting Conference of 1968 and the Birth of the United Methodist Church
Bridwell Library
Publications and images document the Methodist integration, the Methodist-Evangelical United Brethren merger, and the Uniting Conference.
![cream circle on brown background](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/chaos.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0B6214ADF1882FAE48CDBC1BF3F77532)
Vance Wingate - Variation and Theme
Hamon Arts Library
Wingate says, "the structures in my work are derived from typography and letter construction, printed texts, decorative type ornaments, logos and symbols."
![Lantern slide of a pastor posing with a Model T Ford.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/virtual-and-real.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=8AC4B0D9E6112E72DFA95F02AF521106)
Virtual and Real
Bridwell Library
Fifty-six items representing twelve digital collections related to the history of the United Methodist Church or Perkins School of Theology.
![manuscript writing and printed text in one book](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/welcome-addition-07073.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=6CED1429A4682FE8B40482F5299E82D5)
Welcome Additions
Bridwell Library
Rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, prints, and letters that were acquired by Bridwell Library Special Collections between 2008 and 2014.
![What We Keep Exhibit in the Hawn Gallery](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/hamon/what-we-keep.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=F0524A05430FA0395DDC659C20691D52)
What We Keep: The Objects of Immigrants to America
Hamon Arts Library
The exhibition is an installation of fifteen drawings by artist, Jane Chu. The exhibition centers upon her mother’s journey out of China during the Chinese Revolution of 1949.
![A photograph of William B. Lawrence.](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/dean-lawrence.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=952A5D60140CF4AD20636888826859A0)
William B. Lawrence, Dean of Perkins School of Theology, 2002–2016
Bridwell Library
This display highlights William B. Lawrence’s leadership of Perkins School of Theology and his contributions to theological education and church life.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/degolyer/suffrage-image-deg.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=0BA3CFE4ECCF23347D3B8291245EB709)
Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes
DeGolyer Library
This exhibit marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment through documents and collections emphasizing the roles women played in the suffrage movement.
![image of queen on a throne with saturated color](/-/media/site/libraries/exhibits/bridwell/word-embodied-songofsongs-10695.jpg?h=480&iar=0&w=720&hash=D64B8E42631DAC5D68FBC6A7C9AC1E55)
The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts
Bridwell Library
Twentieth-century printers and artists endeavored to embody Scripture in a meaningful form.