Exhibits
Student-curated exhibits and other showcase events at Union College serve both as opportunities for students to share what they have learned about Blake and the library’s collections and as learning opportunities in themselves. Students exercise their research and creative skills while communicating their knowledge and enthusiasm for Blake in a variety of ways. Examples from the College archives include:
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- 2000 Blake Fest
- Description
- This public event in the College Arts building welcomed “friends and guests” to a showcase of student creativity in response to Blake’s work, presented in the form of brief talks on a variety of subjects, dramatic readings, music, and other interpretive material. A program guide distributed at the event is available below. The Blake@Union website is designed to capture and preserve such events more fully in future.
- Program Guide
- Item sets
- Blake at Union
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- 2001 Exhibit: William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Description
- This exhibit in Schaffer Library featured a facsimiles of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience in particular. Sample images from different publishers were displayed along with material from Blake scholar and printmaker Michael Phillips. Student essays in the catalog for this exhibit, available below, focus primarily on the printing techniques used by Blake himself as well as those making the various facsimiles.
- Student Exhibit Catalog
- Item sets
- Blake at Union
- Media
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- 2003 Exhibit: Books of Fire, Books of Gold: William Blake’s Works in Illuminated Printing
- Description
- This exhibit in Schaffer Library showcased Blake’s illuminated books in a number of contexts. Facsimiles made by the Trianon Press were featured heavily; student essays in the accompanying catalog, often discuss how the choices of binding material or the format of the reproduction affected their encounter with Blake’s work. Each essay addresses the overall themes or imagery of the selected book, some in relation to other works by Blake. Facsimiles from the Manchester Workshop and Granary Books were also on display.
- Student Exhibit Catalog
- Item sets
- Blake at Union
