Exhibitions
Some days, everything is a machine: The Poetic Practices of Mary Jo Bang
This is the digital accompaniment to an exhibition that traces Mary Jo Bang's hybrid creative practices across analog and digital...
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Staging James Baldwin and William F. Buckley: Belonging in Opera
Continuing WashU’s long-standing commitment to the performing arts, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE²) presents...
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The Seizin Press: A Radical Collaboration
The Seizin Press was founded by poets Laura (Riding) Jackson and Robert Graves in 1927. Over the next decade or...
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James Merrill’s Poetic Places
American poet James Merrill was a world traveler. He loved discovering new destinations and exploring new cultures, and he found...
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Moral Tails
The Moral Tails exhibition shares stories of animals in children’s literature and how animals can exemplify different human characteristics. From...
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Past Exhibitions
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Exhibition Me and My Arrow(s)
Jeremy Kannapell’s collection of arrows has been ongoing for nearly 15 years. Kannapell cannot say exactly how or why it...View Exhibition about Me and My Arrow(s) -
Exhibition From Quarry to Quadrangle: Material Memory on Campus
The From Quarry to Quadrangle exhibition examines the building blocks of the Danforth Campus. By looking closely at the Missouri...View Exhibition about From Quarry to Quadrangle: Material Memory on Campus -
Exhibition Intertwined Lives: Harriet Hosmer and Cornelia Crow Carr
In 1848, two young women met at school in Lenox, Massachusetts. Hattie Hosmer was from a high-society family in nearby...View Exhibition about Intertwined Lives: Harriet Hosmer and Cornelia Crow Carr -
Exhibition Nicky Zann: A Life in Art
Nicky Zann’s career started in 1957 and spanned over six decades. He is known as an innovative cartoonist, caricaturist, and...View Exhibition about Nicky Zann: A Life in Art -
Exhibition (Re)Collections: Drawn from the Vault
(Re)Collections: Drawn from the Vault presents new original artworks from first-year Master of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Culture...View Exhibition about (Re)Collections: Drawn from the Vault -
Exhibition 2025 Open Education Week: Sharing Memories of Your Favorite Children’s Book(s)
This interactive pop-up exhibition features about 50 award-winning titles recently added to the WashU Libraries’ Collection. It invites viewers to...View Exhibition about 2025 Open Education Week: Sharing Memories of Your Favorite Children’s Book(s) -
Exhibition Movement in Miniature
Though many think of pop-up books as mainly for children, books with moving parts have been around for centuries and...View Exhibition about Movement in Miniature -
Exhibition Live Music Memories
Andy Meyer, PhD ’97, has supported local live music and saved concert tickets since the 1980s. This two-part collection illustrates...View Exhibition about Live Music Memories -
Exhibition The Freedom Suits
The Freedom Suits exhibition tells the extraordinary history of people who sued for freedom from enslavement in the 19th century....View Exhibition about The Freedom Suits -
Exhibition Snakes on the Page
Snakes, serpents, vipers, or pythons… regardless of what you call them, it is undeniable that these legless reptiles have captivated...View Exhibition about Snakes on the Page -
Exhibition Forging a Nation: The Founding of the U.S. Mint, 1792
From ancient times, coinage production has acted as a mark of sovereignty. The circulating money of the colonies and the...View Exhibition about Forging a Nation: The Founding of the U.S. Mint, 1792 -
Exhibition Literary St. Louis
Home to literary giants Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, and John Keene (to name a few!), St....View Exhibition about Literary St. Louis