Talking Back: Conversations with Special Collections Closing Reception
Celebrate the closing of Talking Back: Conversations with Special Collections, an exhibition featuring original artworks created by first-year Master of Fine Arts students in Illustration and Visual Culture during the 2025–26 academic year. Drawing inspiration from materials in the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections at WashU Libraries, each student developed and curated an individual section of the exhibition in response to these archival collections.
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Talking Back: Conversations with Special Collections
The Talking Back exhibition presents new original artworks from first-year Master of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Culture (MFA-IVC) students, created and curated in response to materials from the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections. Each student’s project is drawn from a process of critical research and creative engagement with archival materials. Exploring themes
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