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 LITS.
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
Tiera Ndlovu, Gallery Assistant, tiera.ndlovu@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 – May 15, 2020
· “Cheap Thrills:” (draft title)
May 22 – Sept. 18, 2020
· Ellenport Fine Bindings (subject)
Sept. 25, 2020 – TBD
· “Readux: Read | Annotate | Publish”
Current - TBD
· Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (subject)
Dates TBD
· “Our Archives Could Be Your Life:
The Photographs of Jon Arge and Alli Royce Soble”
Feb. 21 – Aug. 16, 2020
· Cyclorama App (subject) has been proposed.
TBD
· “How Might We . . . ? Innovations in the Libraries”
Aug. 28, 2019 – July 14, 2020
(addition in spring 2020)
about Philosophical Transactions and augmented reality
· "Jack Stewart: The Birth of Subway Graffiti"
Fall 2020 - TBD
· “Broken Promises” Public Housing (working title)
Fall TBD 2020 – TBD 2021
· Flannery O'Connor and Benny Andrews (subject)
TBD 2021
· “Educated—The Common Read”
Current - May TBD 2020
· Graphic Novels (subject)
Fall 2020 - TBD
· “Collecting Stories”
Current - Summer 2020
· Graphic Novels
Fall 2020 - TBD
· "Voices from the Other Side: Artists' Books from Phillips State Prison"
Mar. 1 - Sept. 13, 2020
· "Framing Shadows: Portraits of Nannies from the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection"
soon to be released
· "Voices from the Other Side: Artists' Books from Phillips State Prison"
next in queue for development
· "Speak What Must Be Spoken” at Drew Charter School
Jan. 2020 – October 2020. (will move to Maynard Jackson High School)
· "She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers” (GPLS)
Traveling across the state through the Georgia Public Library Service,
Feb. 2020-Mar. 2022
·"She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers” (second copy)
Currently in the Chace Gallery at Emory University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Future bookings available by contacting Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives,
and Rare Book Library
· "How Might We. . . ? Innovation in the Libraries”
Current - TBD
· "History of Teaching Medicine at Emory”
Current - TBD
· "Framing Shadows: Portraits of Nannies
from the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection"
Jan. 13, 2020 – Dec. 2020, Woodruff Library
Now on display at Oxford Library.
· Renovation to Level 2 Entrance
May – August 2020
Materials provided here are meant to assist with the development of exhibitions.
New documents will be added over time.