The Exhibitions Team produces a variety of exhibits that reflect the diversity of Emory Libraries' resources and demonstrate the cultural depth of Emory’s academic community. We also collaborate with Emory and community partners by lending our expertise and fabrication abilities for special events and projects for EUL.
Our team:
Caroline Corbitt, Graphic Designer, caroline.corbitt@emory.edu
Kathy Dixson, Manager of Library Exhibitions, kdixson@emory.edu
John Klingler, Graphic Designer and Fabricator, libjhk@emory.edu
Merryn McKeough, Student Online Exhibit Assistant, merryn.grace.mckeough@emory.edu
The Exhibitions Team is responsible for the development, design, fabrication, installation, project management and assessment of exhibitions for Emory Libraries.
These exhibitions include:
Exhibitions in the Libraries
Traveling Exhibitions
Online Exhibitions
Stand-alone Graphics for Exhibitions and Special Events
Implementing this work involves:
Research, object selection, storyline development, interpretive planning
and media selection, and text writing and editing
Graphic design as well as 2D and 3D spatial design
Printing and mounting of graphics
Exhibit furniture design, layout, and installation
Object handling and installation
Audio-visual creation and post-production work;
equipment selection and installation
Lighting design
· “Born Digital: From Kilobytes to Terabytes”
January 10, 2020 – Dec. 15, 2021
· “Readux: Read | Annotate | Publish”
Through June 15, 2021
· Apollo 15 Learning Hub
July 26, 2021 - spring 2022
· Currently, a change is in progress
· Apollo 15 Learning Hub
July 26, 2021 - spring 2022
· “Our Archives Could Be Your Life:
The Photographs of Jon Arge and Alli Royce Soble”
Current - TBD
· Gallery is currently in transition.
· Graffiti In New York and Atlanta (subject)
Fall 2021 – TBD
· “Broken Promises” Public Housing (working title)
TBD
· Flannery O'Connor, Benny Andrews, and Alice Walker (subject)
TBD 2023
· Social Justice Initiatives/Confronting Racism
Current - TBD
· “Collecting Stories”
Current – Summer 2021
· Black Student Activism
Fall 2021 – TBD
Conservation Exhibits - (2 large cases, number of exhibits and dates vary)
· "Creativity in Conservation"
Current - TBD
· "Voices from the Other Side: Artists' Books from Phillips State Prison"
Current - TBD
Online Exhibits
· "Framing Shadows: Portraits of Nannies from
the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection" - View the Online Exhibit
· "Our Archives Could Be Your Life" - View the Online Exhibit
· "Reading Room with a View" - View the Online Exhibit
· "Black Student Activism"- coming soon
Traveling Exhibits
· "Speak What Must Be Spoken” at Drew Charter School
Jan. 2020 – May 2021
· "She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers” (GPLS)
Traveling across the state through the Georgia Public Library Service
when libraries are again open
· "She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers” (second copy)
Available for traveling--Contact Stuart A. Rose Manuscript,
Archives, and Rare Book Library
Administrative Building (Typically about exhibits in Woodruff and Rose Libraries)
TBD in fall
Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library (Typically 1 per year)
· "History of Teaching Medicine at Emory”
Current – TBD
Oxford Library (Typically 1 per year)
· Currently, a change is in progress
· "The Work is Never Finished"
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Materials provided here are meant to assist with the development of exhibitions.
New documents will be added over time.