Title Pages: Department of English Faculty Publications, the first of a series of library exhibits of W&M faculty publications, opened on October 23rd in the Bright Gallery at Swem Library. The exhibit featured over fifty books written by the faculty of the Department of English Language and Literature, as well as letters and reviews that were produced as part of the publishing process. The volumes in the exhibit were on loan from the University Archives and second copies are available in the circulating collection.
Bibliography of exhibit titles (includes call numbers)
Curator: Hope Yelich, Reference Librarian; Exhibit design and installation: Chandi Singer, Burger Archives Assistant; Graphics: Karen McCluney, Swem Graphic Artist.
An exhibit on American Political Cartoonists was on display in the Botetourt Gallery of Swem Library from September 2006 through early summer 2007. The exhibit wais sponsored jointly by Swem Library and the Roy R. Charles Center. Additional materials were on display in the flat cases by the Read and Relax area on the first floor. This exhibit included cartoons by Hugh Haynie, the longtime political cartoonist of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Swem's Special Collections Reearch Center owns nearly all the cartoons Haynie drew in his long and distinguished career.
Also, please visit the related online exhibitIt's Really Tough to Get Angry Six Times a Week: The Cartoons of Hugh Haynie.
Curator: Berna Heyman; Exhibit design and installation: Chandi Singer, Burger Archives Assistant; Graphics: Karen McCluney, Swem Graphic Artist.
Nancy Marshall (Rotunda) Gallery and Special Collections Research Center on the first floor of Swem Library
Late Summer-November 18, 2006
The exhibit, "Joseph Palin Thorley: Potter & Designer," showcased Thorley's illustrious career as a potter and designer from 1906, when he joined Wedgwood as an apprentice at the age of fourteen, to his later achievements as an internationally-renowned ceramist living in Williamsburg. Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) houses the J. Palin Thorley Collection, containing family and business papers, photographs, drawings and sketches, taped interviews and personal conversations, and ceramics.
Thorley's ties to Williamsburg began in 1937 when the city's restoration was underway. Shown some shards of a silver luster jug excavated in the Historic Area, Thorley confidently observed, "Oh, I can make that." Moving to Williamsburg himself, he restored an old museum on Jamestown Road and called it "White Hall." There he reproduced eighteenth-century forms from Colonial Williamsburg's collection. In his later years, he experimented and produced many intriguing glazes such as lusterware and Crystalline. He died in 1987. Thorley possessed great knowledge and extraordinary talent. Recognized as a leader in the American and European ceramic industry, he also was a man many remember as one of the wonderful characters of the "Burg" in the 1970s and 1980s.
Curator: John Austin, Curator Emeritus of Ceramics and Glass at Colonial Williamsburg, was guest curator for the exhibit; Exhibit design and installation: Chandi Singer, Burger Archives Assistant; Graphics: Karen McCluney, Swem Graphic Artist.
