by Kayla Robinson | Jan 30, 2023 | Exhibits
This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.
by Tracy Payovich | Feb 2, 2021 | Exhibits, Featured, Graphics
Frederick Douglass once said: “Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers—and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements. They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the...
by Clements Library | Dec 8, 2020 | Exhibits, Featured, Graphics
In 2020, University of Michigan students Veronica Cook Williamson and Lindsey Willow Smith worked with Clements Library staff and others—through a pandemic—to produce a new online exhibition examining early photography of Native Americans. In this guest post,...
by Tracy Payovich | Nov 24, 2020 | Exhibits, Featured, Graphics, News
Group portrait of five unidentified Ojibwa Indian men wearing mixtures of western and traditional clothing posing outside tree bark wigwam at White Earth Indian Reservation, Minnesota. Photography can be a tool of colonialism, as well as a tool of sovereignty and...
by Samantha Hill | Nov 23, 2020 | Exhibits
This exhibit examines how 19th- and 20th-century African American artists and intellectuals expressed identity through portraiture, photography and literature.
by Veronica Williamson | Nov 2, 2020 | Exhibits
Resources About the Creative Project Land & Collections Acknowledgement A Note on Naming Further Research Ideas and Resources Glossary Exhibit Acknowledgements and Bibliography Contents Introduction Land and Sovereignty: Ownership, Use, and Legalities Struck in a...
by Veronica Williamson | Nov 2, 2020 | Exhibits
Resources About the Creative Project Land & Collections Acknowledgement A Note on Naming Further Research Ideas and Resources Glossary Exhibit Acknowledgements and Bibliography Contents Introduction Land and Sovereignty: Ownership, Use, and Legalities Struck in a...
by Veronica Williamson | Nov 2, 2020 | Exhibits
Resources About the Creative Project Land & Collections Acknowledgement A Note on Naming Further Research Ideas and Resources Glossary Exhibit Acknowledgements and Bibliography Contents Introduction Land and Sovereignty: Ownership, Use, and Legalities Struck in a...
by Veronica Williamson | Nov 2, 2020 | Exhibits
Resources About the Creative Project Land & Collections Acknowledgement A Note on Naming Further Research Ideas and Resources Glossary Exhibit Acknowledgements and Bibliography Contents Introduction Land and Sovereignty: Ownership, Use, and Legalities Struck in a...
