Exhibits, University Libraries

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The Hallmarks of Cancer
Sible, Jill; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2013-10-12)
Selected final projects created by undergraduate student teams for the spring 2013 section of BIOL 4874, Cancer Biology. Students were asked to demonstrate deep understanding of and add value to the Hallmarks of Cancer. 2013/10/12 - 2013/11/11
Soviet History for the Networked Age
Nelson, Amy; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2014-02-17)
Series of student made blogs on Soviet history syndicated to a main blog called "Motherblog Central." 2014/02/17 - 2014/03/31
Arts + Crafts
Vollmer, Matthew; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2014-05-05)
An interactive exhibit based on the work of a graduate creative nonfiction course from the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. Each student designed and constructed physical, interactive exhibits that deployed narratives about the subjects they were investigating. 2014/05/05 - 2014/05/09
Photography in Focus
Rosenthal, Joy; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2014-11-07)
Printed and virtual photographs created by undergraduate students in ART 1004, Studio Art for Non-Majors: Digital Photography. 2014/11/07 - 2014/12/20
Thinking Environmentally
Craig, Brian; Eick, Matthew J.; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2014-12-10)
Series of Public Service Announcement videos centered on environmental topics created by undergraduate students in the course ENSC 1015. 2014/12/10 - 2015/02/28
We Are Going Places: Travel Poster Exhibition
Zhang, Lei; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-01-20)
This exhibition showcases students’ work from ART 2575, Introduction to Graphic Design II. The class focused on a refinement of the students’ design skills and a mastery of design technology in creating stylized computer graphics and illustrations for specific visual communication needs. Throughout the semester, students in the class learned advanced techniques and skills with Adobe Creative Cloud’s core programs and used them in combination with their design skills and knowledge in a variety of illustrative designs. Posters in the exhibition were collected from the second class project: designing an illustrative travel poster. For that project, each student first chose a favorite place for the travel poster, real or imaginary. Then, they went through a design process of researching graphic styles, sketching, detailing, computer digitizing and coloring, and final printing. In terms of design tools, students mainly used Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop to create these posters. 2015/01/20 - 2015/03/01
Lincoln in Our Time
Quigley, Paul; Kutz, Kimberly; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-03-02)
April 14, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the last days of the Civil War. As the first presidential assassination in United States history, Lincoln’s death sent shockwaves across the globe. American soldiers, politicians, and civilians mourned for Lincoln and breathlessly awaited news of the capture of his assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth. After his death, Lincoln became a powerful symbol that generations of Americans mobilized in their struggles for freedom and equality. Displaying objects and documents drawn from Newman Library’s Special Collections, this exhibition focuses on the reaction to Lincoln’s assassination as well as Lincoln’s enduring legacy in American life. Featured items include letters, diaries, and newspapers reporting on the assassination and its aftermath, relics such as fabric from Lincoln’s coffin, and a book by Virginia Tech’s first president and noted Lincoln despiser, Charles L.C. Minor. The exhibition also includes videos produced by students in History 2984, “Abraham Lincoln: The Man, the Myth, the Legend.” This exhibition is part of a series of events commemorating Abraham Lincoln in Spring 2015 sponsored by the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. On February 14, the VCCWS will screen Young Mr. Lincoln at the Lyric Theatre. On April 10-11, five internationally-renowned historians of Lincoln and the Civil War will discuss Lincoln in a symposium entitled “Lincoln in Our Time.” For more information, please visit www.civilwar.vt.edu. 2015/03/02 - 2015/04/15
Computational Thinking and Digital Sound Manipulation
Kafura, Dennis G.; Lyon, Eric; Bart, Cory; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-08-19)
Collection of videos and presentations student made to explore the ideas and methodology of computational thinking and practice the techniques for synthesizing, performing, and transforming sounds using freely available sound software. 2015/08/19 - 2015/09/25
New Town: Across the Color Line
Winling, LaDale C.; Bolt, Carmen; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-10-05)
“Remembering New Town” is an exhibit project intended to describe and interpret one of Blacksburg’s African American neighborhoods. It will focus most heavily on the period 1900 to 1940. The exhibit is part of the VT Public History program’s ongoing engagement with local history and public audiences. In particular, VT PH makes efforts to excavate and bring to light the history of lost, forgotten, or marginalized groups and events. The New Town community was founded and grew along with VAMC/VPI through the better part of a century and eventually dissolved as Virginia Tech grew into the large university it is today. Virginia Tech led redevelopment of the area in the early 2000s and most of the traces of New Town are now lost to the history. The African American community was central to Montgomery County and Blacksburg history. Especially since New Town was so proximate to VT, this history will be of great interest to the VT community. Finally, this exhibit will emphasize the geography and spatial dynamics of New Town, which will lend itself to an engaging and experiential exhibit form. 2015/10/05 - 2015/11/20
25 Years of German Unity
German Embassy; Khanke, Corinna; Bauer, Esther; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-10-13)
Poster exhibition highlighting the history and process of German Unification in celebration of 25 years of German Unity. 2015/10/13 - 2015/10/30
Survey of the History of Art
Knoblauch, Ann-Marie; Givens, Elisabeth; Bassler, Kim; Craig, Brian; McVoy, Liz; Bradley, Jonathan; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-12-01)
ART 2385,Survey of the History of Art I (Paleolithic to Medieval), encourages students to connect art, architecture, and material culture from early cultures and civilizations as well as with the modern world. Working in groups, students created virtual thematic art exhibits to be featured in this exhibition. Students identified and researched a theme, and then discovered and chose diverse historical works of art and architecture related to that theme. These curated digital exhibitions showcase the varied and unexpected ways that cultures—through their visual culture— can connect across time and space. View the presentations online at exhibits.lib.vt.edu/ART2385/ 2015/12/01 - 2016/02/26
Painting for Non-Majors
Fralin, Scott; Salisbury, Amelia; Cybach, Tyler; Diggs, Adrienne; Foley, April; Lee, Sharon; Martin, Parker; Mayberry, Cariss; Murphy, Taryn; Petras, Julia; Rodriguez, Susan; Snyder, Elizabeth; Teal, Corbin (Virginia Tech, 2015-12-08)
Collection of paintings done by undergraduate, non-majors. Painting for Non Majors is an introductory course in painting. As a General Education course, projects and discussions dovetail two topics: ‘Critique and Practice in Design and the Arts’ and ‘Intercultural and Global Awareness.’ Students will gain familiarity with a range of formal and conceptual facets of Painting. Emphasis is placed on creative process, problem solving, and an introduction to relationships between content and form. 2015/12/08 - 2016/03/25
Behind the Scenes of the Fair Use Week Exhibit - How We Made Our Copyright Decisions
Pannabecker, Virginia; Sebek, Robert; Walz, Anita R.; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (2016-02)
This workshop was created for a general audience, with an expectation of most being students, staff, or faculty in a higher education environment. *This workshop was developed with United States copyright law in mind. During this workshop, presenters and participants discussed decisions related to using copyrighted materials in an in-person and online exhibit. Following the discussion, they explored an interactive exhibit and consider whether uses of copyrighted materials in case studies included in the exhibit were more towards ‘Fair,’ or towards ‘Infringing.’
Is It a Fair Use? A Hands-On Discussion
Pannabecker, Virginia; Walz, Anita R. (2016-02)
This workshop was provided for instructors, researchers, and library employees; in-person and online, as well as being open to the general public (in-person and online) during Fair Use Week 2016. In each workshop session, two librarians from Virginia Tech University Libraries provided a brief overview of guidelines to consider U.S. Copyright questions, with a focus on Fair Use. Participants discussed their experiences and used an interactive tool to analyze example Fair Use case studies.
29 Days of Black Feminism
Fralin, Scott; Turner, Valencia; Jensen-Wachspress, Arianna; Lin, Billy; Holloway, Kendall; Choate, Rebecca; Eldridge, Kyle; Zelaya, Daniella; Iasu, Saron; Barth, Tobias; Singh, Sapna (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-01)
Poster exhibition highlighting the achievements of Black Feminists and raising awareness of the impact the Black Feminist movement has had over the course of Black history. 2016/02/01 - 2016/02/29
Fair Use Week Exhibit and Event Toolkit
Pannabecker, Virginia; Walz, Anita R.; Sebek, Robert; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-22)
In Fall 2015, the Open Knowledge Committee of Virginia Tech’s University Libraries decided to participate in Fair Use Week 2016. This was our first time participating. We put a call out and gathered a planning group. Our week-long event included an interactive exhibit, an exhibit reception, three workshops, a website, and a blog post. Our goals for this event were to: (a) raise awareness of the nature and application of the Fair Use provision in U.S. Copyright law, and to (b) provide interactive components to engage participants in thinking about copyrights and their choices when: 1. considering the use of copyrighted materials for research, education, creative, commercial, or other purposes, and 2. creating and sharing copyrightable works in various contexts. We took a broad view of our target audience - aiming to provide in-person and online opportunities for interactive engagement by VT students, employees, instructors, researchers, and the general public. We reused resources from others, and want to share our content for further reuse. Fair Use is a 4-part exemption of U.S. Copyright Law which allows copying, redistribution, public displays, performance, transmission, and creation of new versions when the proposed use is deemed by the user’s informed analysis to be “fair” rather than “infringing.” Explore various tools and resources for your Fair Use analysis. Exhibit focuses on several local, current, and historical examples related to fair use. 2016/02/22 - 2016/03/11
Innovation Pathways Minor
Fralin, Scott; McNair, Lisa D.; Junkunc, Marc; Baum, Liesl M.; Zacharias, Kari (Virginia Tech, 2016-03-25)
Informative exhibit featuring courses from the Innovation Pathways minor. The Innovation Minor is a step towards an interdisciplinary learning experience where students can study innovation and ideation techniques and be immersed into the entrepreneurial process through courses in multiple colleges and disciplines – mirroring the experiences they will be facing in the industrial sector. The courses featured in this exhibit, Innovation: Collaboration, Culture, Context, CREATE!, and Startup: Managing Technology Commercialization, are the core of the Innovation minor.
Favorite Poem Video Project
Fralin, Scott; Voros, Gyorgyi (Virginia Tech, 2016-04-04)
Compilation of videos created by students in English 1604: Introduction to Poetry. The instructions for the project were for students to choose a poem that especially resonated with them, to read or recite it on video, and to talk a bit about the poem’s personal significance. They were also asked to discuss some of the aesthetic elements in their poem that made it an effective work of art. The project is modeled on the Library of Congress’s Favorite Poem Project, instituted by the poet Robert Pinsky in 1997 when he was the nation’s Poet Laureate. Pinsky asked for Americans across the land to share their favorite poems and say what they loved about them. Belying the notion that no one reads poetry anymore—or that only academics or other writers do—tens of thousands of people representing a range of ages, occupations, levels of education, ethnicities, and backgrounds submitted poems. They talked about the ways in which poetry inspired them, moved them, consoled them, helped them cope with life’s vicissitudes, gave them hope, enlightened them, amused them, made them laugh, made them cry, taught them about themselves, and connected them to the rest of life and humanity. The students in this group of videos have done much the same. They, too, come from a wide and varying range of majors and interests, from Biochemistry to Business Information Technologies, from Mathematics to Sociology, from Neuroscience to Fashion Merchandising, from Environmental Sciences to—English! Several have graduated and gone on to law school or launched careers. In their enthusiastic and felt renditions of the poems, they show how words create the world, how words express us and create us, and how we create the world through words. Poetry is for everyone. Poetry is as necessary as food. Go read a poem a today. Or write one! 2016/04/04 - 2016/05/02
We Thought the Future Would be Cooler
Fralin, Scott; Grimes, Matt; Stettler Kleine, Marie; Zhang, Lei; Fallah, Navid; Philips, Amanda K.; Risha, Zachary; Kulak, Andrew; Mouchrek, Najla; Sharma, Manisha; Shih, Bono (Virginia Tech, 2016-04-26)
Interactive installation in which students from a transdisciplinary collaboration commandeer the challenge of Virginia Tech’s university-wide Beyond Boundaries initiative. The exhibit explores Virginia Tech’s possible futures, but also questions who has a say in imagining them, and to what ends. The project results from STS 6614: Origins of Innovation, a seminar that challenges our beliefs about, and our participation in, innovation. 2016/04/26 - 2016/06/06
Christiansburg Institute
Fralin, Scott; Finney, Trevor; Cline, David P.; Ogle, J. Todd; Tucker, Thomas J. (Virginia Tech, 2016-08-22)
This exhibit features work from Virginia Tech's Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies and computer science, education, and public history programs and an app developed around the history of the CI called CI-Spy. Founded in 1866 with 200 students, the Christiansburg Institute (CI) was a school that educated newly emancipated African Americans. As schools desegregated, fewer students attended the CI, and in the spring of 1966, its final senior class of 22 students graduated. 2016/08/22 - 2016/09/30

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